This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences provides $160,151 to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: LINGUISTIC PRODUCTION, PERCEPTION, AND IDENTITY IN THE CAREER MOBILITY OF BLACK FACULTY IN LINGUISTICS AND THE LANGUAGE SCIENCES." The research will be conducted from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024 under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This program aims to promote...
The University of Maryland Baltimore County was awarded a $125,016 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund research from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024 on linguistic production, perception, and identity in the career mobility of Black faculty in linguistics and language sciences. The project aims to contribute insights on...
This $351,534 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research on sociolinguistic development in pre- and early adolescents. The awardee, Michigan State University, will leverage a novel audio diary method to create a large corpus of adolescent speech data, which will be acoustically analyzed to test hypotheses about language change and the role of socially influential speakers. The project also...
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 University of Massachusetts received a $434,027 project grant award from the National Science Foundation on March 1, 2021 to fund the project "UNDERSTANDING VARIATION IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LANGUAGE: CORPUS AND PROSODIC FIELDWORK PERSPECTIVES" through August 31, 2024. The grant is part of NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA #47.075), which aims to contribute to scientific strength and welfare through promotion of basic research and education in these...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) to the California State University, East Bay Foundation, Inc. supports a collaborative research project examining cognitive and linguistic barriers to improving diversity in STEM fields. The $721,526 award over 3 years from September 2023 to August 2026 will fund 5 large-scale studies to investigate how generalization and generic language development affect science learning,...
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 $56,465 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports a multi-year study analyzing the determinants that shape language restoration and development efforts within communities. The principal investigator will utilize a combination of linguistic analyses, observations, interviews, participatory methods, and digital network analysis to track how language is introduced and emerges as a mode of...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $384,272 Project Grant to The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, to conduct "A Microcomparative Study of Negation in Dialectal Variation." This grant, funded through the NSF Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will explore differences in how speakers from various regions and ethnic backgrounds use certain types of negative sentences. The project collects new data from a diverse set of...
This $449,275 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to advance the scientific understanding of human language processing and change. The project, led by the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), combines expertise from linguistics, psychology, and computational approaches to investigate how language users integrate general language constraints and verb-specific preferences...