The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $449,966 Project Grant under its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Chicago. The grant, awarded on August 15, 2024, will support research to quantify the role of "question under discussion" (QUD) in naturalistic discourse and investigate how QUD uncertainty impacts language comprehension. The project aims to construct open-access corpora annotated with QUD information in multiple languages and develop behavioral methods to collect online reading time data. By combining computational and experimental approaches, the research will test hypotheses connecting QUD uncertainty to human language processing. The award reflects the NSF's mission to advance fundamental scientific understanding and has been deemed worthy of support based on the proposal's intellectual merit and broader impacts.
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