Language at the University of Maryland
The University of Maryland hosts arguably the largest and most integrated community of language scientists in North America. The university has outstanding 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, world class research centers, and a melting pot of language diversity. The university offers numerous highly-ranked programs in the language sciences, including a new integrative graduate program on Biological and Computational Foundations of Language Diversity, supported by an award from the National Science Foundation’s IGERT program. Read on to learn more about opportunities in Language at Maryland.
Student showcase
Akira Omaki awarded NSF grant
Akira Omaki, 5th year Linguistics PhD student, won an NSF grant in the amount of $11,966 with his proposal entitled "Commitment and flexibility
in the developing parser". The grant covers his travel expense to Japan to conduct sentence processing research with Japanese children and
adults so that he can compare language processing profiles in speakers of Japanese and English which significantly differ in their word orders.
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Brian Dillon and Candise Chen awarded NSF-EAPSI grants
Candise Chen (Human Development) and Brian Dillon (Linguistics) were awarded the NSF’s East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) award. EAPSI’s goal is to introduce U.S. graduate students to East Asia and Pacific science and engineering and foster future international collaborations. In addition to the $5,000 stipend, the award covers the round-trip ticket from the U.S. to the host country and housing in the host location. Students also benefit of a pre-departure orientation in the Washington, D.C. Area. [read more]
Discovering the building blocks of human language
Linguistics graduate student Annie Gagliardi spent her hummer with members of her host family in Dagestan, where she traveled to study acquisition of Tsez, a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by about 6,000 native speakers.