Current Grants

Phonetics

Collaborative Research: An Ultrasound Investigation of Irish Palatalization
Co-PIs: Jason Shaw; Ryan Bennett (UC Santa Cruz), Jaye Padgett (UC Santa Cruz), Grant McGuire (UC Santa Cruz) and Máire Ní Chiosáin (University College Dublin, Ireland)
National Science Foundation Grant (BCS #1423772/1424398)
2014-2019

Syntax

The Microsyntax of Pronouns in North American English
Jim Wood and Raffaella Zanuttini
National Science Foundation (BCS #1423872)
2014-2019

Ditransitives in Insular Scandinavian
Co-PIs: Cherlon Ussery and Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson
Co-proposers: Nicole Dehé, Einar Freyr Sigurðsson, Jim Wood, and Hjalmar P. Petersen
Icelandic Research Fund (195926-051)
2019-2021

Historical Linguistics

The origins of Australia’s non-Pama-Nyungan speaking
Claire Bowern, with co-PIs: David Lambert (Lead PI, Griffith University), Michael Westaway, Erich Round, Eske Willerslev, Craig Millar, Russell Gray
Australian research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)
2017-2020

Language as a window on Prehistory
Claire Bowern
National Science Foundation (BCS #1423711)
2014-2019

Field Linguistics/Language Documentation

Traditions, Transformations and Technology in Aboriginal Australia
Claire Bowern, with co-PIs: Peter Hiscock (Lead PI, University of Sydney), Russell Gray, Val Attenborough
Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)
2016-2019

Towards an Integrated Understanding of Natural Resource Use and Management
Claire Bowern, with co-PIs: Michael Gavin (Lead PI, Colorado State), Bobbi Low (University of Michigan)
National Science Foundation (IBSS #1519987)
2015-2019

Computational Linguistics

Inductive Biases for the Acquisition of Syntactic Transformations in Neural Networks
Robert Frank, in collaboration with Tal Linzen (Johns Hopkins University)
National Science Foundation (BCS #1919321) 
2019-2023