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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.
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