Project Grant 2555669
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded $240,470 to the University of Illinois under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) on August 15, 2025, for a collaborative research project investigating evidentiality and focus features in linguistic systems. The primary products delivered through this award include the development of treebanks and Universal Dependencies corpora for multiple...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program, CFDA 47.075) awarded The Ohio State University $254,181 on August 1, 2026, for a collaborative research project examining cognitive modeling of pragmatic reasoning in human languages. The project, which runs through July 31, 2029, investigates how children across typologically distinct linguistic systems develop the ability to...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded $625,596 to Washington University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) on August 1, 2026, for a three-year research project investigating cognitive mechanisms underlying human language structure and processing. The core deliverable is empirical research examining how human cognition represents and processes fixed ordering preferences in...
- Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville received a $227,604 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports the establishment of a dynamic language infrastructure community of science to preserve endangered and under-documented languages through cross-disciplinary collaboration and capacity building. Products include...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Northwestern University received a $228,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to conduct collaborative research on the relationship between information structure and syntax across different languages. The award, effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028, will produce cognitive research data and scientific findings...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded $280,336 to the Regents of the University of Michigan under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to conduct collaborative research on predictive processing in naturalistic language comprehension. The project commenced September 1, 2025, with completion scheduled for August 31, 2028. The primary deliverables include electroencephalography (EEG)...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $450,000 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) under the NSF Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The grant, effective September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2026, will fund research on the cognitive mechanisms supporting the production of sentences involving recursion and displacement across different languages. The project aims to use structural priming...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Southern California received a Project Grant award of $296,591 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Multidisciplinary Activities under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), effective July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2029. This project, titled "ComPCog: Modeling Cognitive Mechanisms of Sound Patterns in Human Language," investigates the cognitive mechanisms that enable rapid human language...
- The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support research titled "BUILDING A COMPREHENSIVE THEORY OF PRAGMATIC LANGUAGE THROUGH LARGE-SCALE EXPERIMENTS, COMPUTATION, AND NEURODIVERSITY" from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2023. The grant supports research under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to promote basic research and education in social, behavioral and...
- 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...
Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF), Office of Multidisciplinary Activities, awarded $193,502 to the Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for a collaborative research project examining cognitive modeling of pragmatic reasoning in human languages. The award period runs from August 1, 2026, through July 31, 2029. The project investigates how children develop the cognitive ability to draw inferences and interpret implied meaning beyond explicit linguistic statements, with particular focus on scalar implicatures (such as the distinction between "some" and "all") across typologically distinct languages. The primary deliverables include behavioral and computational research findings on how linguistic experience and domain-general cognitive abilities jointly influence children's pragmatic reasoning abilities. The project will collect and publicly disseminate data on language development, numerical cognition, attention, inhibition, and working memory across children exposed to different linguistic systems. Through computational modeling, the researchers will quantify how these cognitive factors interact in predicting pragmatic interpretation, ultimately contributing to generalizable theories of human cognition, learning, and cognitive development. The comparative cross-linguistic analysis will identify which components of pragmatic reasoning reflect universal human cognitive properties versus language-specific influences.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $193.5k | 7/9/26 |