The Pennsylvania State University was awarded a $328,487 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 a collaborative research project titled "LISTENING OUT FOR VARIATION: AN INVESTIGATION OF MONO- AND BIDIALECTAL LISTENERS IN THE U.S." from June 2021 through November 2024. The research aims to contribute to scientific...
The National Science Foundation awarded $122,710 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to Stanford University from June 2022 to July 2023. The project aims to increase diversity in the linguistic sciences through an Research Experiences for Undergraduates site examining the role of language in social mobility. Undergraduate students from historically black colleges and universities and other minority-serving institutions will conduct...
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...
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania were awarded a $192,227 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund the acquisition of variation in child language learners project from September 1, 2021 through February 28, 2025. The project aims to contribute to understanding basic research and education in social, behavioral and economic sciences by monitoring and analyzing resources invested...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $407,738 to investigate the factors that influence how humans speak and understand language. The project, titled "The Effects of Individual Differences in Text Exposure on Grammatical Processing", is conducted by Vanderbilt University and will run from March 2025 to February 2028. The research will examine how an individual's experience with...
This $345,907 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund research into integrating linguistic and social meaning in imprecision resolution. The grant was awarded to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on September 1, 2022 for work concluding on February 28, 2025. The research will explore how people interpret sentences based on stereotypical features of the speaker, such as whether they sound like a "surfer...
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 Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $450,000 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) under the NSF Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The grant, effective September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2026, will fund research on the cognitive mechanisms supporting the production of sentences involving recursion and displacement across different languages. The project aims to use structural priming...
The Pennsylvania State University received a $3 million project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education under the federal STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) on September 1, 2021. The five-year grant will support the Linguistic Diversity Across the Lifespan project to transform training and advance human-technology interaction through research on linguistic diversity. As part of the NSF's mission to ensure the vitality of the nation's STEM education...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports a research project on sociolinguistic development in pre- and early adolescents. The $351,534 award to Michigan State University will leverage a novel audio diary method to create a large corpus of adolescent speech data. Acoustic analysis of this corpus will test hypotheses regarding language change and the role of socially influential speakers in...