Umd Launches Language Center

More than 200 researchers join the Maryland Language Center to create better language-learning systems for children and adults.

By David Kohn, Terp magazine.

Welkom, Bienvenue, Huānyíng guānglín and Dobro požalovat: The university has opened a research center that will create the largest group of language scientists in North America to examine a range of questions including: how to improve early identification of language disorders in babies; how to create better language recognition systems; and why adults learn languages less efficiently compared with children.

The Maryland Language Science Center brings together more than 200 researchers from 17 departments and centers, as well as six colleges. This group will include computer scientists, linguists, neuroscientists, education researchers, psychologists and other specialists who will collaborate to solve such global language problems.

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