This $179,857 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research examining the development of non-local syntactic dependencies in infants under 2 years old. The award to the University of Maryland, College Park aims to identify how infants represent these types of abstract grammatical structures, which are fundamental to human language ability, before they regularly produce full sentences. The research will establish an empirical foundation for understanding the initial stages of syntactic development and the interaction between learning from experience and innate capacities for representing speech. This project provides training opportunities in language sciences research and includes outreach to local families and underrepresented high school students.
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