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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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Annie and Jeff on Tsez in Language and the news

March 19, 2014 Linguistics

In the news after its publication in Language this month, is Gagliardi and Lidz's "Statistical Insensitivity in the Acquisition of Tsez Noun Classes."

Terje Lohndal wins two awards

March 11, 2014 Linguistics

Terje Lohndal wins the Young Research Prize and the Nils Klim Prize.

Jeff Green giving colloquium talk at Utah

March 10, 2014 Linguistics

Jeffrey Green presents "Remote Control: Evidence against grammatical binding of PRO in reason clauses" at the Utah Department of Linguistics colloquium.

Terponanza at CUNY in Ohio

March 05, 2014 Linguistics

CUNY has work by Alek, Anna, Anton, Dan, Dustin, Ilia, Katie Leech, Mike McCourt, Shota and Sol, along with Alexander, Bob Slevc, Colin, Ellen, Jared Novick, Meredith Rowe, Polly O'Rourke and Yi Ting Huang, among other Terps.

Tom Grano to faculty at Indiana!

March 05, 2014 Linguistics

Tom Grano is to be Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Indiana, Bloomington, starting Fall 2014.

The LaTerzas plus alums at WCCFL 32

February 28, 2014 Linguistics

Chris LaTerz talks about "Local plural anaphora as sub-event distributivity" at WCCFL 32.

Megan Sutton to postdoc at Penn!

February 27, 2014 Linguistics

Megan Sutton accepts a post-doc with John Trueswell and Lila Gleitman at the University of Pennsylvania in the Language Development and Language Processing Lab.

Roosevelt H.S. interns win science fair with Ellen

February 21, 2014 Linguistics

Eleanor Roosevelt HS interns Amina Iro and Uchenna Uzomah have won first place and honorable mention in the Behavioral Sciences category at the Eleanor Roosevelt Science and Engineering Fair.

Mike Fetters awarded grant for research in Japan

February 17, 2014 Linguistics

Michael Fetters has won a place in the NSF's East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes Program.

Alexis Wellwood invited to CSLI workshop

February 12, 2014 Linguistics

Alexis Wellwood gives an invited talk in the Cognition & Language Workshop, a series of talks on experimental studies of natural language meaning hosted by CSLI and the Stanford Humanities Center.