Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0770835

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0770835

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The relationship between speech production and perception in Australian language speakers: implications for speech development and learning in Aboriginal children. Chronic ear infection blights the life of at least 50% of Aboriginal Australians. In a vicious cycle that extends from generation to generation, it leads to hearing loss, educational disadvantage, socio-economic disadvantage and environmental depredation, which once again leads to ear (and many other) infections. This is a unique attempt by researchers across academic disciplines to study the role of language in educational disadvantage and whether this disadvantage might be made worse for Aboriginal children by the early use of English at school. We ask whether, on purely acoustic or linguistic grounds, communicating in an Aboriginal language might offer improved educational and health outcomes for Aboriginal children in the early years.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2007

End Date: 31-12-2011

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $255,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Linguistics | Indigenous Health | Aboriginal Languages | Laboratory Phonetics And Speech Science

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Hearing, vision, speech and their disorders | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health |

Other Keywords

Aboriginal Languages | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health | Hearing, vision, speech and their disorders | Indigenous Health | Laboratory Phonetics And Speech Science | Linguistics

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