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Author: Arnhold, Anja Author: Knight, Andy Author: Oriola, Temitope Subject: Successful SSHRC Subject: IDG Languages: English

  • Failure to Detonate: Gender and Inchoate Suicide Missions

    2018-02-01

    Oriola, Temitope

    SSHRC IDG Awarded 2018: The proposed research focuses on suicide terrorism. It investigates operatives or captives of Boko Haram (Nigeria) who deliberately refused to detonate their suicide vests. Scholars have overwhelmingly focused on "successful" suicide terrorism with much attention on the...

  • Linguistic complexity in the marking of new information

    2022-10-23

    Arnhold, Anja

    SSHRC IG awarded 2023: This project will investigate the limits imposed by the cognitive system on how three languages spanning the pectrum of linguistic diversity --- English, Mandarin and Kalaallisut --- perform a basic communicative function: drawing the listener's attention to new...

  • Speech Prosody of New vs. Shared Information in Canadian English

    2018-02-01

    Arnhold, Anja

    SSHRC Awarded IDG 2018: Canadian English is vastly understudied. This is particularly true regarding the melody and rhythm of Canadian speech (prosody/intonation). Prosody features as key in most theoretical and applied research that involves spoken language, but in Canadian English, these...

  • 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...

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