Main Purpose: The Linguistics Program supports research regarding the human language including projects about syntax, linguistic semantics and pragmatics, morphology, phonetics, and phonology.
The program encourages interdisciplinary research, including questions such as:
- “What are the psychological processes involved in the production, perception, and comprehension of language?
- What are the computational properties of language and/or the language processor that make fluent production, incremental comprehension or rapid learning possible?
- How do the acoustic and physiological properties of speech inform our theories of language and/or language processing?
- What role does human neurobiology play in shaping the various components of our linguistic capacities?
- How does language develop in children?
- What social and cultural factors underlie language variation and change?”
Benefits:
- Dissertation research grant
- Direct costs may not exceed $12,000 plus indirect costs
- 25-35 awards available
Eligibility Criteria:
- Doctoral Student enrolled in a U.S. University
- Principal Investigator must be advisor of the doctoral student or a faculty member at the U.S. university where the doctoral student is enrolled. The doctoral student will be the Co-PI.
Application Link and Additional Information: click here
Deadline: July 15, 2015 and January 15, 2016