The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $104,114 Project Grant under its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to Haverford College. The award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2027, supports collaborative research on "Subregular Inference of Morpho-Phonology." This research aims to better understand the mechanisms underlying human language acquisition, specifically how individuals construct mental representations of words and learn the patterns that govern their morphological and phonological variations. The project applies a modular, interpretable, and small-data approach, leveraging computational principles related to memory and perception to develop algorithms for analyzing morpho-phonological patterns. The resulting software will be released as open-source to support research and processing of low-resource languages. No sub-awards are planned under this grant.
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