Opportunity ID: 359330

General Information

Document Type: Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number: 14-551
Funding Opportunity Title: Linguistics Program – Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Opportunity Category Explanation:
Funding Instrument Type: Grant
Category of Funding Activity: Science and Technology and other Research and Development
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards: 35
Assistance Listings: 47.075 — Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: No
Version: Synopsis 1
Posted Date: Jun 06, 2025
Last Updated Date: Jun 06, 2025
Original Closing Date for Applications: – Opportunity is Archived
Current Closing Date for Applications: – Opportunity is Archived
Archive Date: Jun 07, 2025
Estimated Total Program Funding: $400,000
Award Ceiling:
Award Floor:

Eligibility

Eligible Applicants: Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility: *Who May Submit Proposals: Proposals may only be submitted by the following:

Universities and Colleges – Ph.D. granting universities and colleges accredited in, and having a campus located in, the US acting on behalf of their faculty members. Such organizations also are referred to as academic institutions.

*Who May Serve as PI:

DDRI proposals must be submitted with a principal investigator (PI) and a co-principal investigator (co-PI). The PI must be the advisor of the doctoral student or another faculty member at the U.S. university where the doctoral student is enrolled. The doctoral student must be a co-PI.

Additional Information

Agency Name: U.S. National Science Foundation
Description: The Linguistics Program supports basic science in the domain of human language, encompassing investigations of the grammatical properties of individual human languages, and of natural language in general. Research areas include syntax, linguistic semantics and pragmatics, morphology, phonetics, and phonology.

The program encourages projects that are interdisciplinary in methodological or theoretical perspective, and that address questions that cross disciplinary boundaries, such as (but not limited to):

  • What are the psychological processes involved in the production, perception, and comprehension of language?
  • What are the computational properties of language and/or the language processor that make fluent production, incremental comprehension or rapid learning possible?
  • How do the acoustic and physiological properties of speech inform our theories of language and/or language processing?
  • What role does human neurobiology play in shaping the various components of our linguistic capacities?
  • How does language develop in children?
  • What social and cultural factors underlie language variation and change?

The Linguistics Program does not make awards to support clinical research projects, nor does it support work to develop or assess pedagogical methods or tools for language instruction.

DDRI proposals to document the linguistic properties of endangered languages should be submitted to the Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) Program: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12816.

Link to Additional Information: NSF Publication 14-551
Grantor Contact Information: If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:

NSF grants.gov support
grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov
Email:grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov

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