The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $147,672 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, doing business as Virginia Tech, to conduct collaborative research on "Every Participant Counts: Investigating the Impact of Experimental Language Research on Participants." The project aims to explore how researchers can bring their roles of conducting experimental studies and engaging the public closer together,...
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...
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...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075), supports research into the factors that influence how humans speak and understand language. The $407,738 award to Vanderbilt University will investigate the impact of an individual's daily language exposure, cognitive abilities, and reading habits on their preferences and performance when processing complex English sentence structures. The project...
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...
This $326,292 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to investigate the linguistic outcomes of language contact between an indigenous, endangered language and a socially dominant language in two distinct contact settings. The project specifically examines the production and perception of questions, exploring how the different intonation strategies used by the languages collide in contact...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $351,534 to Michigan State University to conduct research on sociolinguistic development in pre- and early adolescents. The project will leverage a novel audio diary method to create a large corpus of longitudinal adolescent speech data, which will be acoustically analyzed to test hypotheses regarding individual and community-level language change....
The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded a $217,800 two-year Project Grant to researchers at Berkeley, California to study the contributions of the environment and social interaction to language emergence. The grant is part of the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which supports basic research and education in these fields. Under the award, the researchers will investigate how environmental and social factors shape...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences provides $124,539 to support research examining the links between perception and production of second language speech sounds over time. Funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the two-year award to the University of Texas at Austin will lay the foundation for developing a comprehensive model of second language sound learning. Researchers will train...
This National Science Foundation project grant award of $116,990 supports research into deconstructing wordlikeness judgments through interconnected experimental and computational studies. Funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the award will provide research training and mentoring opportunities for graduate students in modern experimental and computational methods related to phonotactic knowledge and language sciences. Specifically, the City University...