​Recently held research grants:

• Observations and Remarks on the French language AHRC
• Age-related changes in the use of linguistic cues for speech intelligibility in adverse listening conditions European Research Council ERA-AGE 
• EF Research Lab for Applied Language Learning
• Education First-Cambridge Learner Corpus of English: a data driven approach to second language learning (Newton Trust, Education First)
• Voice similarity and the effect of the telephone: a study of the implications for earwitness evidence ESRC
• The development of negation in the languages of Europe AHRC 
• Learning about the world through generic statements: a cross-linguistic perspective (Leverhulme Trust)
• Structure and Linearization in Disharmonic Word Orders (AHRC)
• Syntactic Atlas of Welsh Dialects (Newton Trust)
• English Profile: Reference Level Descriptions for English (Cambridge ESOL)
• Computational Natural Language Processing and the Neuro-Cognition of Language (EPSRC, ESRC and MRC Cognitive Systems Forsight project)
• Empirical foundations of linguistics: data, methods, models (Agence Nationale de Recherche)
• Dynamic Variability in Speech: a Forensic Phonetic Study of British English ESRC 
• Null Subjects and the Structure of Parametric Theory AHRB
• 'A Historical Corpus of the Welsh Language' (English language version) AHRB 'Corpws hanesyddol yr iaith Gymraeg' (Welsh language version) AHRB
• L1 Acquisition of Prosody in Catalan, Spanish and English (Batista i Roca and the British Academy)
• Developing Multilingual Technologies for Automatic Lexical Acquisition (Royal Society)
• Prosody in Grammar (British Academy, CNRS, ANR)
• Prosody and Phonological Modelling (British Academy, CNRS, ANR)
• Rethinking Comparative Syntax (ERC)
• Different phonological structures in prosody? (British Academy)
• Categories and gradience in intonation: Evidence from linguistics and neurobiology (ESRC)
• Sound to Sense (Marie Curie) 
  • Prosodic Structure and FPD: Segmental-Suprasegmental Interaction (Project 8 in Sound to Sense, Marie Curie)
• 2012- Interactive Atlas of the Prosody of Portuguese (InAPoP) and other Romance languages. Funded by the Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (PTDC/CLE-LIN/119787/2010). PI Sónia Frota (University of Lisbon), 7 CIs in Portugal, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, and US. 

Others:

• Rethinking Being Gricean: New Challenges for Metapragmatics (Cambridge Humanities Research Grant)
• Default Semantics (University of Cambridge and Leverhulme Trust)
• The development of a phonetically-rich model of speech understanding. Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship - Prof. Sarah Hawkins
• English intonation in the British Isles ESRC
• An Integrated Prosodic Approach to Device-Independent, Natural-Sounding Speech Synthesis EPSRC
• The role of distributed systematic acoustic-phonetic detail in spoken word recognition EPSRC
• L1 Acquisition of Cypriot Greek Pronominal Clitics (CYCLIA) Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation
• The Langacross II project, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the Agence Nationale de Recherche France (ANR)
• The VILLA project, funded by the DFG, the ANR and the Nederlandse Wetenschap Organisatie (NWO)