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2018-07-26

Nicoladis, Elena

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...

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...

2015-10-14

Georgiou, Georgios

SSHRC Awarded IG 2016: The objectives of the proposed study are: 1] To test the validity of a widely-used model of reading fluency longitudinally (from Grade 1 to Grade 5) and across languages varying in orthographic consistency (English, Dutch, and Greek); 2] To examine the role of...

1964-01-01

Sedelow, Sally Y., Sedelow, Walter A., Ruggles, Terry, Gerbner, George, Holsti, Ole R., Krippendorff, Klaus, Paisley, William K., Stone, Philip J., Horowitz, Floyd R., Kachru, Braj B., Stahlke, Herbert, Bryan, Robert, Ford, Frank, Harris, Herbert, Taylor, Scott, Smith, Walter L., Bardez, Joan N., H. Buttelmann, William, Hickok, William G., Peters, Joan, Gerig, Thomas, Rosen, Larry, Smith, John B., Lewis, Peggy, Warfel, Sam, Dillon, Martin, Shaffer, Juliet, Joyce, Frank, Kosakowski, Thomas, Wagner, David, Wright, Harrel, Fisher, Gerald, Sawin, Lewis, Rockwell, Geoffrey, Nyhan, Julianne, Sinclair, Stéfan

This is a collection of items from the personal collection of Sally Yeates Sedelow, sent to Dr. Geoffrey Rockwell at the University of Alberta over the course of several years in the 2010s. The collection contains published journal articles, conference presentations, Sally Sedelow's C.V., working...

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...

2020-02-01

Daskalaki, Evangelia

SSHRC IDG awarded 2020: To date, the vast majority of heritage studies in the North American context examine the development of immigrant children's heritage/home language separate and apart from the development of the societal language. These studies have consistently shown that immigrant...

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...

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...

2011-11-28

Beck, David

SSHRC Awarded IG 2012: The objective of this research is the continued documentation of Upper Necaxa Totonac (UNT), an endangered Totonacan language of the Sierra Madre Oriental in Puebla State, Mexico, and the expansion of this project to selected sister languages in the Northern Totonac area....

2021-09-09

Tucker, Benjamin

SSHRC IG awarded 2022: This project asks how does our ability to produce and understand conversational reduced speech change as speakers age at the phonetic, lexical, and phrasal levels? To address this research question this project proposes the creation of a cross-sectional (different age...