Project Grant 2517665
- This $116,797 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to document, analyze, and revitalize a contact language that has undergone significant grammatical change. The project will record 40 hours of natural speech through sociolinguistic interviews and linguistic elicitation, transcribe and annotate the data, and develop an open-access digital corpus. Grounded in theories of...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $104,114 to Haverford College to conduct research on the mechanisms underlying human language learning. The research aims to better understand how people construct mental representations of words and learn the morphological and phonological patterns that govern language. The project will develop interpretable computational models and algorithms...
- This Project Grant award of $249,993 from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) supports a research project at Georgetown University to examine language data and advance language infrastructure, knowledge, and theory. The project provides empirical data for developing and testing theories of language, which are important for understanding human cognition, and trains students in these methods. The research focuses on documenting and...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $268,067 to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF SUNY) to advance linguistic research through the development of speech technologies. The key products and services delivered under this 2-year award, which runs from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2027, include: Creation of benchmark datasets, comprehensive lexica, and advanced data...
- This $261,181 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will support a multi-year study by the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) analyzing the determinants that shape language restoration and development within communities. The project will utilize linguistic analysis, observation, interviews, participatory methods, and digital network analysis to track how language is introduced and emerges as a mode of communication. The findings...
- This $244,516 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) supports a research project to document and analyze three languages with unusual grammatical structures. The goal is to expand existing language databases and advance the understanding of language evolution, structure, and function through comparative analyses. Key project outputs will include grammars, lexicons, and transcribed texts, leveraging...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $106,179 to the University of Arizona to advance the development of technologies that support documentation and revitalization of endangered indigenous languages. The project aims to build capacity and infrastructure to create effective, durable, and appropriate language-related technologies within indigenous communities. Key products and services include:...
- 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...
- This $139,801 National Science Foundation project grant supports the University of Texas at Austin in documenting an endangered language variety spoken in rural villages. Over a two-year period ending June 2024, the university will interview native speakers to create a grammar of the traditional language and conduct detailed linguistic analysis. This work under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) aims to advance understanding of contact-driven linguistic...
- This federal Project Grant award of $432,656 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports collaborative research to better align how artificial intelligence (AI) language models and humans process language. The primary goal is to understand why AI models, such as ChatGPT, do not process language in the same way as humans, particularly around handling temporary semantic ambiguity. The researchers will benchmark the AI models...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $224,769 to the University of North Texas (UNT) to develop artificial neural network models that can reconstruct proto-languages and earlier forms of modern languages. The project aims to leverage recent advancements in AI and machine learning to address limitations of current comparative reconstruction methods, which are used to study language evolution and the development of human societies. The award will fund the creation of neural network models capable of ingesting large linguistic datasets across multiple language families and inferring ancestral language forms by detecting cross-linguistic patterns. The results of this work have the potential to significantly advance scientific understanding of language change and the origins of modern languages. The project will run from September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $224.8k | 8/4/25 |