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Research at our top-ranked department spans syntax, semantics, phonology, language acquisition, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics.
Connections between our core competencies are strong, with theoretical, experimental and computational work typically pursued in tandem.
A network of collaboration at all levels sustains a research climate that is both vigorous and friendly. Here new ideas develop in conversation, stimulated by the steady activity of our labs and research groups, frequent student meetings with faculty, regular talks by local and invited scholars and collaborations with the broader University of Maryland language science community, the largest and most integrated language science research community in North America.
Featured Research News
The Syntax of Gerunds and Infinitives: Subjects, Case and Control
A dissertation on the syntax of gerunds and infinitives
Non-ARHU Contributor(s): Acrisio Magno Gomes Pires
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A dissertation on the syntax of gerunds and infinitives
Prolific Peripheries: A Radical View from the Left
Clauses comprise three syntactic domains, and movement within a domain is forbidden.
Non-ARHU Contributor(s): Kleanthes K. Grohmann
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Clauses comprise three syntactic domains, and movement within a domain is forbidden.
Processing Temporals and Locatives in a Licensing Parser
A dissertation on processing adjuncts.
Non-ARHU Contributor(s): Margaret Antonisse
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A dissertation on processing adjuncts.
Reduplication, feature displacement, and existential faithfulness
A dissertation on the phonology of reduplication.
Non-ARHU Contributor(s): Carolina Maria Struijke
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A dissertation on the phonology of reduplication.
Processing temporal modifiers : the influence of lexical aspect
A dissertation on the interaction between aspect and the interpretation of temporal modifiers.
Non-ARHU Contributor(s): Margaret Jordan Antonisse
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A dissertation on the interaction between aspect and the interpretation of temporal modifiers.
Syntax and Semantics of Quantification in Chinese
Eliminating covert A-bar movement.
Non-ARHU Contributor(s): Jianxin Wu
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Eliminating covert A-bar movement.
Theoretical implications of OCP effects on features in optimality theory
A dissertation on OCP effects in OT.
Non-ARHU Contributor(s): Haruka Fukazawa
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A dissertation on OCP effects in OT.
Selection of the optimal syllable in an alignment-based theory of sonority
A dissertation on the role of sonority in syllable structure.
Non-ARHU Contributor(s): Patricia Hironymous
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A dissertation on the role of sonority in syllable structure.
Interactions between markedness and faithfulness constraints in vowel systems
On markedness in phonology.
Non-ARHU Contributor(s): Viola Giulia Miglio
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On markedness in phonology.
The phonotactics and phonology of obstruent clusters in optimality theory
A dissertation on consonant clusters in OT.
Non-ARHU Contributor(s): Frida Morelli
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A dissertation on consonant clusters in OT.