Project Grant T365Z220092

Articulate.ai Inc. received a $256,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop adaptive dialog systems as second language learning partners. The grant will fund an innovative effort to integrate state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technologies into conversational systems for language education. Key deliverables include user-adaptive algorithms and datasets for dialog policy training on language learning tasks. The...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $132,291 to the University of Chicago to conduct a longitudinal study examining the relationship between sound perception and sound production in second language learning. The goal is to better understand how these skills develop over time and interact, which will help inform more effective pronunciation training methods for language learners. The study will...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $318,850 will fund research at the University of California, Los Angeles from May 2022 to April 2025 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The research aims to improve speech technology and develop automated oral literacy assessments to better support learning outcomes for young African American English-speaking children. Specifically, the university researchers will develop data augmentation and...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences provides $124,539 to support research examining the links between perception and production of second language speech sounds over time. Funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the two-year award to the University of Texas at Austin will lay the foundation for developing a comprehensive model of second language sound learning. Researchers will train...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded The Pennsylvania State University a $432,575 Project Grant effective August 6, 2025, through July 31, 2027, under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173). This research project aims to optimize reading instruction for students who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices by determining contextual factors that...

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $429,000 Project Grant under the "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" (CFDA 93.173) federal grant program to The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. The grant aims to enhance language recovery and quality of life for stroke survivors with aphasia by combining a linguistically-motivated therapy called Semantic Feature Analysis (SFA) with excitatory theta burst stimulation (TBS), a...

This two-year, $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will support research examining syntactic regulation and adaptation in bidialectal and heritage bilingual speakers. The goal is to better understand the nature and consequences of proficient, multidialectal language experience. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Julie Washington at the University of California, Irvine, the postdoctoral fellow will conduct a neurolinguistic...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $169,965 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) for a 3-year collaborative research project. The project aims to use innovative sensing technology and automated speech recognition to capture and analyze teacher language interactions with preschool children in diverse classroom settings. The goal is to gain insights into how teacher-child language experiences...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Sciences award, CFDA 47.075, provides $507,066 to Montclair State University to create a corpus of annotated speech data for African American English, Latinx English, and European American English. The goal is to advance scientific understanding of prosody and develop tools for automatic detection of accent and phrase boundaries across these language varieties. A team of 7 diverse students will receive training through the...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $147,672 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, doing business as Virginia Tech, to conduct collaborative research on "Every Participant Counts: Investigating the Impact of Experimental Language Research on Participants." The project aims to explore how researchers can bring their roles of conducting experimental studies and engaging the public closer together,...