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What’s up with languages at USM? USM’s language offerings have recently expanded. But that’s only part of the story. Learn more.


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.