The University of Maryland hosts the largest and most integrated community of language scientists in North America.

Students and faculty have access to world-class resources for computational, cognitive, neuroscientific, clinical, and educational research on language. The university’s setting in the Washington DC metropolitan area provides enviable access to national organizations, leading research centers, and a melting pot of language diversity. Read on to learn more about Language at Maryland and the outstanding opportunities for students to developing ambitious interdisciplinary expertise through cross-department programs.

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Sol Lago and Wing Yee Chow, winners of the 2012 "Jerrold J. Katz Young Scholar Award".

Sol Lago and Wing Yee Chow, who learned yesterday that they are joint winners of the 2012 "Jerrold J. Katz Young Scholar Award". This is an award for the best paper by a young researcher (student, postdoc, early faculty) at the 2011 CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, held at Stanford ... [read more]

The IGERT Program is now accepting applications

We are now accepting applications from students who would like to become full participants in our IGERT program in Biological and Computational Foundations of Language Diversity. To download the guidelines for applicants please visit www.languagescience.umd.edu/resources/igert.php. Note that the ... [read more]