Cooperative Agreement AID520A000400204

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Sciences award, CFDA 47.075, provides $507,066 to Montclair State University to create a corpus of annotated speech data for African American English, Latinx English, and European American English. The goal is to advance scientific understanding of prosody and develop tools for automatic detection of accent and phrase boundaries across these language varieties. A team of 7 diverse students will receive training through the...

This $244,516 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program documents three languages with unusual grammatical structures to expand existing language databases and advance the understanding of language evolution, structure, and function. The project leverages automatic speech recognition technologies and supports student training opportunities. The products include grammars, lexicons, and transcribed texts,...

The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation will use a $164,792 project grant from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs under the Indian Economic Development program (CFDA 15.032) to continue and expand an Umatilla language immersion preschool program and develop curriculum and teaching materials. The program aims to revitalize the critically endangered Umatilla language, of which only three fluent speakers remain. Services include a four-hour preschool with 50%...

The Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs awarded a $9.4 million cooperative agreement to American Councils For International Education: Actr/Accels, Inc. to support the Academic Exchange Programs - Undergraduate Programs (CFDA 19.009) from November 2021 through September 2023. As authorized by the Fulbright-Hays Act, the Academic Exchange Programs - Undergraduate Programs seeks to increase mutual understanding between the United States and other countries through...

This $238,206 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports the development of a digital "Phonological Atlas" resource charting the phonological structures of an underexplored spoken language variety. The 5-year project, running from May 2025 to April 2030, will conduct linguistic interviews with 160 participants across different regions to investigate sound-based phenomena like phonemic...

This federal Project Grant award of $827,851 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) supports research on the American Sign Language (ASL) and spoken English development of young deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children. The primary objective is to characterize the language development trajectories of DHH children based on their varying access to signed versus...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences provides $449,712 to the University of Georgia Research Foundation to document and analyze endangered language varieties spoken in a linguistically diverse border region as part of the NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure - NEH Documenting Endangered Languages program (CFDA 47.075, Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences). The award period is from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025....

This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $123,618 to the University of Maryland, College Park to conduct research investigating the impact of experimental language research on participants. The project aims to explore how experimental linguistics studies can be leveraged for public engagement, by examining participants' perceptions of language and linguistics and testing whether improved science...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $227,420 under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) federal grant program to the Linguistic Society of America to support the creation and distribution of 20 original podcast episodes and 3 mini-series episodes on the history of African American English through the Subtitle podcast. The podcast episodes will range between 20 to 25 minutes and will be distributed through Subtitle's online and social media platforms, with...

This Project Grant award of $250,000.00 from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects program (CFDA 84.215) will support the development and implementation of a professional development framework for school administrators and teachers. The framework aims to build...