Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0770115

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0770115

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Are some languages better than others? It is important for the Australian community - speaking several hundred different indigenous and immigrant languages across the nation - to realise that each language has approximately (but not precisely) the same overall complexity as every other. One may have intricate word structure, while another has short words but elaborate rules for putting words together to make sentences. And, striding above 'political correctness', many people in Australia will be interested to know whether a certain language is a little more efficient than certain other languages for a particular purpose (for example, commercial business).

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2007

End Date: 12-2012

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $371,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Linguistics | Linguistic Structures (Incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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