Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP130102181

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP130102181

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Understanding different speakers vs. different accents: apples and apples or apples and pears? This project will examine how human infants, human adults and songbirds learn the variability in the speech signal and will show whether the underlying skills are uniquely human and specific to certain languages. Converging data using innovative technologies will reveal the details of speech comprehension, an important component of human cognition.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 30-06-2013

End Date: 31-12-2016

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $460,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Linguistics | Animal Behaviour | Laboratory Phonetics and Speech Science | Developmental Psychology and Ageing

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences | Communication Across Languages and Culture | Hearing, Vision, Speech and Their Disorders |

Other Keywords

Animal Behaviour | Communication Across Languages and Culture | Developmental Psychology and Ageing | Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences | Hearing, Vision, Speech and Their Disorders | Laboratory Phonetics and Speech Science | Linguistics

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