Thanks to the generous support of the University of Maryland and the faculty's numerous research grants, the department enjoys possibly the best research facilities of any linguistics program. The CNL Lab has around 5000 sq. ft. of space, including multiple testing rooms, an EEG/ERP lab (32-128 channels), an MEG lab (160 axial gradiometer channels), two eye-tracking laboratories (ASL remote eye-tracker for child and adult studies; EyeLink 1000 eye-tracker for reading studies), and sound-proof space for auditory research. The lab has a new infant testing suite, configured for a variety of different testing paradigms with children aged 2-30 months. The lab is part of Maryland's Infant Studies network, a consortium of labs that tests around 2000 infants per year! The department has a long-standing partnership with the Center for Young Children, an on-campus lab preschool with 120 children aged 3-6 years, plus other testing arrangements with local (pre-)schools. Students have also conducted fMRI research using 3T scanners at the nearby National Institutes of Health, through collaborative projects with Dr. Allen Braun. The department has excellent facilities for computational linguistics, housed primarily in the department's labs in UMIACS. Almost all graduate students in the department make use of the research facilities in some way, either through a primary or secondary research interest, or for meetings and discussion groups.
The department also has close ties with labs and research groups in other countries that have made it possible for students to carry out cross-linguistic studies that would not be possible in the US alone.