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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New from Akira, Imogen, Takuya, Jeff and Colin

November 17, 2013 Linguistics

Just out in "Language Learning and Development", "No Fear of Commitment: Children's Incremental Interpretation in English and Japanese Wh-Questions" by Akira Omaki, Imogen Davidson-White, Takuya Goro, Jeff Lidz and Colin Phillips.

Masaya and Brad in new Linguistic Inquiry

November 05, 2013 Linguistics

In the new Linguistic Inquiry, three articles by Terps.

Ellen at Neurobiology of Language Conference

November 05, 2013 Linguistics

Ellen Lau is at the Neurobiology of Language Conference in San Diego, serving as the Meeting Liaison and presenting a poster on "Costs and benefits of prediction in adjective-noun phrases."

Megan wins best abstract at BUCLD

October 30, 2013 Linguistics

Megan Sutton's abstract for BUCLD38 had the highest ranking of any with a student as the first author, earning her the Jean Berko Gleason Award.

Colin Phillips in Berlin

October 28, 2013 Linguistics

Colin Phillips presents "Generating expectations and meanings in comprehension and production" at ZAS in Germany.

Sara McVeigh wins Dean's Senior Scholar Award!

October 25, 2013 Linguistics

Sara McVeigh has been awarded the Dean's Senior Scholar Award by the College of Arts and Humanities.

Students in President's video address

October 22, 2013 Linguistics

Go see Kate, Sol, Dave Kush, Anton and Anna Chrabaszcz, as well as Jared Novick, Andrea and Colin, in President Wallace Loh's latest video message to the university community.

Six Terpresentations at BUCLD 38

October 18, 2013 Linguistics

Angela, Alexis, Megan, Mike, Naho, Rachel, Yakov, Morgan Moyer, Erin Bennett and Alix Kowalski, will be presenting talks or posters at the 38th annual BUCLD.

Terps in Storrs at NELS

October 10, 2013 Linguistics

NELS 44 features work by Chris, Dustin, Sayaka, Aaron, plus an invited talk by Colin.

Ellen Lau to appear in Journal of Neuroscience

October 08, 2013 Linguistics

Ellen's paper "Automatic semantic facilitation in anterior temporal cortex revealed through multimodal neuroimaging" is to appear in the Journal of Neuroscience.