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2011-10-13
SSHRC Awarded IG 2012: Verbs are harder than nouns for children to learn. This research project will test two central hypotheses about verb learning in children: First, in experimental situations, children benefit from co-speech gesture as shown by enhanced verb learning. Second, in everyday...
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2018-07-26
SSHRC Awarded CG 2018: The theme for the interdisciplinary International Symposium on Bilingualism-12 (ISB12) is The Next Generation. We build on the theme in two ways. First, we highlight the importance of children in maintaining languages, including among immigrants, indigenous language...
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2021-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2021: Leisure is the original antidepressant. University students can use more of it. A 2019 national survey showed that 51.6% of Canadian university students felt too depressed to function, while 16.4% seriously considered suicide. Yet, only 19.1% used traditional mental health...
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2023-01-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2023: Currently, it is unclear how managers should respond to positive reviews in order to improve consumer outcomes. We propose that the problem for managers is that management responses do not meet consumer expectations. Thus, we aim to develop and test a model of management...
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2017-10-02
SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: This project will test how children develop the ability to convey viewpoint in gestures. Children's language learning has been shown to be inextricably intertwined with their use of gestures. We expect that children's choice of viewpoint in gestures will change as they get...
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2014-10-06
SSHRC Awarded IG awarded 2015: We will explore how sharing-breadth influences consumers' emotions. We suggest that, compared to narrowcasting (sharing with few others), broadcasting (sharing with many others) changes the perspective, or the lens, through which consumers view their sharing, from...
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2013-10-11
SSHRC Awarded IG 2014: How do humans recognize speech? How do factors such as native language, age, and dialect have an effect on the way in which spoken words are recognized? The present proposal seeks to investigate these and other questions regarding spoken language recognition by creating and...
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2022-10-26
SSHRC IG awarded 2023: Societal and organizational success often hinges on whether subgroups or departments can successfully work together. These subgroups or departments can have positive, harmonious relations whether they feel connected with the larger, superordinate group that lends itself to...
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2016-10-14
SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: In everyday conversation, we need to rapidly find referents for pronouns when we process language. This process is guided by what is said, but also by where and how it is said. How do children learn to understand pronouns in real time conversation? This project will...
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2019-10-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2020: The global economy is on the verge of a profound transformation as artificial intelligence (AI) achieves and exceeds human-level abilities in a growing number of domains. Canada is already a world leader in the development and commercialization of AI technologies. However,...