World map of languages. It includes dozens of language families with color-coding to show where the originated.
What’s up with languages at USM? USM’s language offerings have recently expanded. But that’s only part of the story. Read the full What’s Up With Languages at USM page for more information.

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Linguistics students shadow-sign As You Like It

Linguistics students shadow-sign As You Like It

ASL shadowed productions offer Deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences the experience of theater instead of a sole interpreter. Each speaking actor is shadowed by a signing actor.

Prof. Dana McDaniel with a child in a language acquisition study.
Prof. McDaniel with child in a language acquisition study

Prof. McDaniel with child in a language acquisition study

One of Professor McDaniel’s research areas is child language acquisition. She studies children’s syntactic knowledge through language games. This child is describing a scene shown on the computer.