This $407,738 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support research at Vanderbilt University to investigate how an individual's exposure to different types of language in daily life impacts their language processing abilities. The project aims to gain a better understanding of how factors like reading habits, text exposure, and cognitive abilities influence preferences and performance when processing complex English sentence structures. The research will involve two main experiments to assess the impact of language experience and cognitive abilities on sentence processing. The findings are expected to inform language teaching practices and help develop interventions to better support language learners based on their unique experiences and cognitive profiles. The project will be conducted over a 3-year period from March 2025 to February 2028.
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