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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Masha on heritage language in Frontiers

December 04, 2015 Linguistics

Now in Frontiers, an article on the relevance of heritage linguistics to the study of linguistic competence, from Maria Polinsky and collaborators Gregory Scontras and Zuzanna Fuchs.

Colin, Masha on steering group for AAAS Sect. Z

December 03, 2015 Linguistics

Congratulations to Colin Phillips for his reëlection as a member-at-large of the steering group for Section Z of the American Academy for Advancement of Sciences, the section for "Linguistics and Language Science".

Kate, Angela, Alex, Jeff and Valentine at BUCLD

November 06, 2015 Linguistics

BUCLD features work by visitor Alex de Carvalho and alumnae Kate Harrigan and Angela He, done jointly with Jeff Lidz and Valentine Hacquard.

Kush accepts professorship in Norway!

November 02, 2015 Linguistics

2013 alumnus Dave Kush IS soon to be Onsager Associate Professor in Linguistics in Trondheim, Norway, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet).

Valentine on modality in Barcelona

November 01, 2015 Linguistics

THE Workshop on Modality Across Categories invites Valentine Hacquard to present "Constraints on modal variation across languages and development" at Universitat Pompeu Fabra University.

Kasia Hitczenko at NECphon

October 30, 2015 Linguistics

Kasia Hitczenko presents "Modeling adaptation to a novel accent" at the Northeast Computational Phonology Workshop.

Happy Birthday August Green!

October 30, 2015 Linguistics

Allison and Jeffrey Green welcome their boy August, born just after midnight on October 29.

Neomi Rao elected Dean's Senior Scholar

October 28, 2015 Linguistics

Neomi Rao - Linguistics major, PULSAR student, and Summer Fellow&ndash - is named a Senior Scholar by the College of Arts and Humanities.

Submariners surface in Frontiers

October 27, 2015 Linguistics

Now in Frontiers in Psychology, "Processing Implicit Control" by Mike McCourt, Jeffrey Green, Ellen Lau and Alexander Williams.

Paulina Lyskawa at NWAV44 in Toronto

October 26, 2015 Linguistics

Paulina is at NWAV presenting "Heritage speakers abide by all the rules: Evidence of language-contact effects in Heritage Polish word-final devoicing," a poster with UToronto colleagues Emilia Melara and Ruth Maddeaux.