Department news

Premvanti Patel featured in Washington Post

Linguistics major highlighted in relation to computer science and humanities.

February 16, 2023 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Linguistics, American Studies, Communication, Philosophy, School of Music, English, History, National Foreign Language Center

ARHU Faculty Awarded Grand Challenges Grants

The grants fund $30 million to UMD faculty focused on groundbreaking, impactful research that will shape the future of our community, state, nation and world.

February 02, 2023 Linguistics

New work from Ellen and her students

On predication, relative clauses, wordhood, and word recognition.

February 18, 2022 Linguistics

Colin to head Section Z of the AAAS

Flying the flag for language in the science ecosystem.

February 16, 2022 Linguistics

NSF support for Hanna and Yu'an

Dissertation improvement grants on comprehension illusions and the acquisition of question marking.

November 15, 2021 Linguistics

Researcher Studies What’s Behind Baby Talk

A new study by linguistics Professor Jeffrey Lidz shows children grasp syntax earlier than you might think.

October 08, 2021 Linguistics, Maryland Language Science Center

NSF Grant Funds Research at Planet Word Museum

$440K award will put scholars on D.C. site, support new course for students to learn to conduct studies in real-world settings.

October 04, 2021 Linguistics

Laurel in PNAS with Jeff

Evidence that 18-month olds already represent filler-gap dependencies.

August 09, 2021 Linguistics

New jobs for alumni

New positions and homecomings for several recent graduates.

May 24, 2021 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Linguistics, American Studies

Three ARHU Faculty Members Named Graduate Faculty Mentors of the Year

Melissa Blanco Borelli of the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Naomi Feldman of the Department of Linguistics and Nancy Raquel Mirabal of the Department of American Studies are recognized.

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Tieu and Lidz on acquisition of NPIs

April 22, 2016 Linguistics

Fresh in Language Acquisition from 2012 visitor Lyn Tieu and then advisor Jeff, "NPI licensing and beyond: Children's knowledge of the semantics of "any"."

Terps in Salt Lake at WCCFL 34

April 21, 2016 Linguistics

WCCFL 34 features upcoming first-year, Sigwan Thivierge; current students Carolina and Mike; post-doc Ted Levin; alumni Aaron White, Alexis Wellwood, Jon Sprouse and Masaya Yoshida; and also an invited talk by Colin Phillips.

Hacquard at Penn

April 19, 2016 Linguistics

Valentine Hacquard gives a colloquium talk, Grasping at Factivity, at Penn Linguistics, in Philadelphia.

Jeff gives answers on questions at Harvard

April 18, 2016 Linguistics

Jeffrey Lidz talks at "Asking About Children’s Questions," a seminar at the Radcliffe Institute in Cambridge, Mass., on young children's understanding of other minds, knowledge, and how to ask questions.

NSF Honorable Mention for Phoebe and Kasia

April 17, 2016 Linguistics

Phoebe Gaston and Kasia Hitczenko are two of only 18 students in Linguistics to win Honorable Mention from the NSF GRFP competition.

Dudley wins Wylie

April 15, 2016 Linguistics

Rachel Dudley wins University's Wylie Fellowship.

Perkins, Dudley, Gerard & Hitczenko 2016

April 14, 2016 Linguistics

Check out the Proceedings of GALANA6, edited by Laurel Perkins, Rachel Dudley, Juliana Gerard and Kasia Hitczenko, with an Introduction by Laurel.

Gagliardi, Mease & Lidz in Language Acquisition

April 13, 2016 Linguistics

Now out, "Discontinuous Development in the acquisition of filler-gap dependencies" by 2012 alumna Annie Gagliardi, with Jeff Lidz and Tara Mease.

Maryland at MIT for ECO-5

April 11, 2016 Linguistics

Annemarie, Gesoel and Suyoung are at ECO-5, a graduate student workshop which this year features work from MIT, Harvard, UConn, UMass and Maryland.

Masha at Gallaudet on Heritage Signers

April 07, 2016 Linguistics

Maria Polinksy is invited to speak at a panel on Heritage Signers down at Gallaudet Linguistics, organized by Deborah Chen Pichler.