Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0772441
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
How Strict is the Mother Tongue? Using Dialects to Probe Early Speech Perception and Word Recognition. This project will 1)advance knowledge of toddler word representations and their developmental precursors; 2) contribute to theories of phonological vs phonetic properties of spoken language; 3) explain how experience with the ambient language shapes children's phonological and lexical development. Moreover, the findings will 4) offer crucial new insights into sources of developmental disorders (language delay, dyslexia) leading to improved early diagnosis and treatment; 5) bear on issues of second language learning; and by understanding the process by which young learners handle dialect variability, 6) provide insights into how automatic speech recognition systems can be made more robust to dialectal and foreign accent differences.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2007
End Date: 12-2011
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $511,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Linguistics | Learning, Memory, Cognition And Language | Laboratory Phonetics And Speech Science | Linguistic Processes (Incl. Speech Production And Comprehension)
