Assistant Professor Aron Hirsch brings enthusiasm and unique research interests to UMD's language science community.
Registration is open for MLSC420/620: Language at the Museum: Engaging the Public in Language Science
TALLER is currently accepting abstract submissions related to this year's theme: Multilingualism and Multiliteracies. Apply by February 1st, 2024.
Apply to be a MILE Research Scientist and further the MILE mission!
This holiday season, please help us collect books to send home with PGPCS students participating in the MILEStones Reading Tutor Program.
The Language Science Center awarded Ama Arhin an undergraduate research fellowship for spring 2023.
The Language Science Center awarded Valerie Hsieh an undergraduate research fellowships for fall 2022.
Yi Ting Huang (HESP) was interviewed on a State Department podcast!
Assistant Professor – Speech and Language Science/Disorders
The Language Science Center awarded two undergraduate research fellowships in summer 2022.
The Maryland Language Science Center has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to support a collaborative project across researchers from UMD, Gallaudet, and Howard Universities and the new Planet Word museum in Washington, DC.
The LSC completed a self study in 2019 to evaluate progress since the center's founding in 2013.
It is with deep sadness that we mark the passing of Mike Long, who died on February 21st. Mike was a Professor of Second Language Acquisition at the University of Maryland for the past 16 years.
Nataliya Stepanova -- a Math and CS double degree student and Linguistics minor, and an alum of LSC’s PULSAR undergraduate research program -- has become the University’s sixth (ever) recipient of
This statement was sent to language science community members in October 2020, based on discussions among members of the LSC Executive Committee.
Among the many UMD students graduating remotely this Spring, we congratulate several outstanding PULSAR students.
The LSC hosted our first outreach workshop for the spring semester on February 15th!
Find out more about what the LSC was doing at Family Science Days this year!
We had a great time at our 11th annual Winter Storm workshop.
Meet Oliver, a PULSAR student in his senior year pursuing a double degree in Linguistics and Computer Science!
Meet Pedro Mateo Pedro, the Executive Director of the Guatemala Field Station. This week he's busy with the first Winter Language School at the field station! https://languagescience.umd.edu/winter-school
The LSC held our holiday and gift wrapping party this Friday, December 14th, 2018!
Meet Marisa Fried, the President and founder of the Undergraduate Linguistics Club!
Language Science Center becomes home to a new global network of experts in language science.
The Language Science Center hosted two conferences on transforming graduate education - both with collaborative, interactive formats that generated a lot of enthusiasm and ideas from the different groups involved.
Photos from the Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, and Language Science tent at Maryland Day 2016.
Caitlin Eaves joined the Maryland Language Science Center on March 28th as Business Manager.
New research from Jeff Lidz (LING) and colleagues with Korean children shows that, even when children are fully immersed in a language, they acquire linguistic features that are missing from their environment.
HESP has partnered with the Jewish Social Services Agency to provide hearing aids to local holocaust survivors.
Jan Edwards (UW-Madison) will be joining UMD’s Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences and the Language Science Center starting in Fall 2016.
On November 19th, scores of language scientists joined members of the wider campus community to hear Jeff Lidz, Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, answer the timeless questi
On September 25th, the 6th annual Language Science Day (LSD) drew a crowd of almost 200 people - plus a couple of unexpected fire trucks.
Join us in congratulating our 2015 language science PhD graduates on their excellent job placements around the world.
A team of faculty in the Department of Counseling, Higher Education and Special Education (CHSE) has been awarded a U.S. Department of Education Leadership Preparation grant.
A question-answering system designed by researchers from UMD and the University of Colorado holds its own against a top human team.
PULSAR is one year old, and the first students to graduate are heading for new and exciting endeavors in language science.
Alia Lancaster (SLA, CASL) participated in a 3-day workshop organized by AAAS focusing on science policy and communication.
Maryland language scientists are used to the idea of interdisciplinary collaboration - but rarely sit down to discuss language science with psychoanalysts and children’s book authors.
Photos from the Neuro, Cognitive, and Language Science tent at Maryland Day, April 25, 2015.
Congratulations to Jeff MacSwan, who was recently named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association!
Photos from Paint Branch High School visit to campus, Spring 2015.
How do listeners use their two ears to better understand speech in noisy environments, or to locate the source of a sound in the space around them?
The National Science Foundation has announced that the University of Maryland’s Language Science Center (LSC) will receive a $3M grant for innovative research and graduate training.
Local high school students competed in the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad at UMD on January 29.
Photo gallery from the Winter Storm 2015 two-week language science workshop.
Why do language science outreach? Outreach enthusiasts from several universities share advice, tips, and tricks for do-it-yourself-ers at LSA 2015.
Winter has arrived, and close on its heels is the Winter Storm workshop! Winter Storm is a free annual two-
Nan Bernstein Ratner was recently recognized for her outstanding contributions to the field with awards from both ASHA and AAAS.
Hands-on demos and symposia at national conferences promote broad engagement in language science outreach.
Bob Slevc's research centers on language production, language and music, second language acquisition, and aphasia.
Student rotations lead to new collaborations, research results and publications.
Does the way that you write your language affect how you speak it too? New research by Chuchu Li, Min Wang and Bill Idsardi suggests that it does.
LSD marked the 1-year anniversary of the Maryland Language Science Center, showcasing many ideas and initiatives launched over the past year.
The Department of Hearing & Speech Sciences creates a freely-available, standardized and economical infant testing system.
A “translation memory system” stores and remembers words, pulling from a bank that grows with each translated item.
Colin Phillips provides insights on the seemingly-effortless process of understanding a language.
Visit our website to register for the 5th annual Language Science Day taking place Friday, September 19th, from 12 – 5pm, at the Stamp Student Union.
We are delighted to welcome Maria (Masha) Polinsky to the language science community at Maryland.
Maryland hosted 80 students of linguistics, philosophy, and computer science from all parts of the world at the 6th NASSLLI.
Join us in congratulating our language science graduate students on their excellent job placements worldwide.
The Language Science Center has initiated a new interdisciplinary training program geared towards undergraduates called PULSAR.
The powerful tool called Hi-LAB is a test that could tell you how good you can ultimately get in any foreign language before learning it.
The new PULSAR program seeks to spread the language science action by bringing together undergraduate students from diverse fields.
Tess Wood has joined the Language Science Center as Assistant Director.
LSC students and faculty have been busy spreading the word about language science to students of all ages.
A new program called GSIT has doubled the US capacity for training interpreters and translators in the Department of Communication.
The UMARC is hosting three upcoming talks as well as a booth at Maryland Day designed for families of children/teens with autism.
PHLING is hosting its second biennial PHLINC symposium on February 14-15, 2014.
Every week there are talks and events in language science all across the university. Here is a sampling of what’s coming up.
Sign up for the annual FREE 2-week intensive training workshop for language scientists taking place at the University of Maryland.
Come see the 3rd annual CNL Lab pre-holiday debate on Friday Dec 13th at 12:00 p.m.
The IGERT Program is UMD’s only award through the National Science Foundation’s flagship interdisciplinary graduate training program.
CASL is working to correct a state of affairs through a new series of grammars describing under-documented languages.
The end of the year is no reason to stop learning.
A Language Science Fellows program is being launched to provide PhD students with training in interdisciplinary research and leadership.
The Maryland Language Science Center opened its door to students and faculty in in its temporary space in 0121 Taliaferro Hall.
A unique seminar in Spring 2014 will investigate how human brains and machines use context to predict upcoming sounds and words in language.
Every week there are talks and events in language science all across the university. Here is a sampling of what’s coming up.
Meredith Rowe was a featured speaker at a White House workshop on “Bridging the Thirty-Million-Word Gap."
The opening of the Maryland Language Science Center is showcased as the central story of the Research @ Maryland newsletter.
Winter Storm, one of the signature activities of the language science community at the University of Maryland, will take place from January 13 – 24, 2014.
Rochelle Newman has agreed to serve as Associate Director of the Maryland Language Science Center.
Bob Ramsey has visited South Korea to receive The Medal of the Order of Cultural Merit from the Prime Minister.
Judi Gorski has joined the Maryland Language Science Center as Center Manager.
The Maryland Language Science Center has reorganized existing email reflectors to better reflect communication needs.
Stanislas Dehaene will give a series of three lectures at the University of Maryland Department of Linguistics.
The UMD Language Science Outreach group participated in “CHANGE THE WORLD: Science & Engineering Careers Fair” organized by NSF.
The 4th annual Language Science Day took place on September 27th and featured the official launch of the Maryland Language Science Center.
Dustin Chacón spent this past summer doing research in Dhaka, Bangladesh and Kolkata, India.
Take a look at the recipients of the full IGERT student status.
Giovanna Morini (5th year IGERT student from the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences) won an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant.
This day brought together 170 faculty, students and researchers from more than a dozen units from across campus to talk about interdisciplinary opportunities and initiatives involving language at the University of Maryland.
Photos by: Anna Lukyanchenko, a PhD student in SLLC.
