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Author: GAPSSHRC Author: Gokiert, Rebecca Author: Wilson, Sheena Subject: United States Subject: 2017

  • The Essence of Anti-Essentialism

    2017-10-14

    Koslicki, Kathrin

    SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: Essences have traditionally been assigned important but controversial explanatory roles in philosophical, scientific and social theorizing. For example, why is it possible for one and the same organism to be first a caterpillar and then a butterfly? Why is it impossible for...

  • The Evolution of Modern Humans in Southern Tanzania: A Landscape Archaeological Approach

    2016-10-11

    Willoughby, Pamela

    SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: A landscape archaeological approach to studying early human occupation of the Iringa Region, Tanzania. Previous research in Iringa has revealed occupations from the critical period for the evolution of our species. This project's goal is to explain the data from the site...

  • The Lost Garden: Exploring Audio in Interactive Spaces

    2017-01-25

    Smallwood, Scott

    SSHRC Awarded IDG 2017: The expansion of video games as a medium has precipitated a healthy indie game movement, and created opportunities for media artists to explore interactive art creation. However, audio and music in games is still primarily constrained to sound effects, dialog and emotive...

  • The Spoken English Lexicon: Massive Auditory Lexical Decision

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    2013-10-11

    Tucker, Benjamin

    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...

  • Understanding Children's Processing of Reference in Interaction

    2016-10-14

    Järvikivi, Juhani

    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...

  • Unfinished Utterances in Mandarin Conversation

    2017-02-01

    Li, Xiaoting

    SSHRC Awarded IDG 2017: If people learn to speak the same language, can broken communication be avoided? Both research and anecdotal evidence tell us “no”. In contrast to language differences, differences in speaking styles are far more difficult to detect. Although knowledge of different...

  • Walking the Talk: Climate Moves

    2024-01-31

    Wilson, Sheena

    SSHRC CG awarded 2024: Prevailing extractive logics allow some people to dehumanize and exploit whole classes and nations in order to take control of their lands and extract value from it, polluting and destroying in the process. These logics need to be remade in order to address climate change....

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