Research

Externally-funded Projects

Principal Members

Baum, Shari NSERC Issues in speech motor control
SSHRC An electrophysiological study of processing quantifiers in discourse
PI: N. Phillips
Co-applicants: V. Dwivedi & S. Baum
CIHR Functional imaging studies of spoken language production.
PI: V. Gracco
Co-applicants: S. Baum
CIHR Electrophysiological investigations of prosodic processing
PI: K. Steinhauer
Co-applicants: S. Baum & C. Palmer
CIHR Speech processing subsequent to focal brain damage
Co-applicant: K. Steinhauer
SSHRC Le développement du contraste i/y en francais : Le rôle des indices visuels et auditifs
PI: L. Ménard
Co-applicants: S. Baum & V. Gracco
REPRIC Sentence processing as measured by integrated ERP/fMRI techniques
PI: N. Phillips
Co-applicants: V. Gracco & S. Baum
FQRSC / FQRNT Centre de recherche sur le langage, le mental et le cerveau
JMP* Speech processing subsequent to focal brain damage
Cohen, Henri FQRSC Les interfaces dynamiques
PI: A.-M. Di Sciullo (Linguistics, UQAM)
SSHRC Les asymétries d'interface
PI: A.-M. Di Sciullo (Linguistics, UQAM)
Crago, Martha SSHRC The role of input in language acquisition: Evidence from French-English bilingual children
PI: J. Paradis (Linguistics, University of Alberta)
CLLRNet A resource database of English language measures from minority children learning English as a second language
PI: J. Paradis (Linguistics, University of Alberta)
FQRSC Interfaces: language acquisition in different contexts
PI: L. White
Co-applicants: M. Crago, F. Genesee, H. Goad, E.Thordardottir, P. Prévost & Y. Oshima-Takane
SSHRC The effects of input on language learning in simultaneous bilinguals and cross-language adopted children
PI: F. Genesee
Co-applicant: Y. Oshima-Takane
SSHRC The impact of Canadian minority and majority environments and instructional programs on learning difficult grammatical morphemes in French.
Co-PI: J. Paradis (Linguistics, University of Alberta)
Co-applicant: R. Lyster
Genesee, Fred CLLRNET The suitability of French immersion for anglophone students who are at-risk for language and reading impairment.
SSHRC Verb argument structure and gesture production in Japanese-English and Japanese-French simultaneous bilingual children.
PI: Y. Oshima-Takane
Co-applicant: F. Genesee
NSERC Brain signatures of nativeness in second language learners
PI: K. Steinhauer
Co-applicants: F. Genesee & L. White
FQRSC Interfaces: language acquisition in different contexts
PI: L. White
Co-applicants: M. Crago, F. Genesee, H. Goad, E.Thordardottir, P. Prévost & Y. Oshima-Takane
SSHRC The effects of input on early language learning in simultaneous bilingual and cross-language adopted children
Co-applicant: Y. Oshima-Takane.
SSHRC Bilingual education in Canada's official languages: Meeting the needs of all students
Co-applicants: R. Lyster & R. Savage
SSHRC Language acquisition and its consequences in a multilingual society: A dialogue from the Canadian perspective
Co-PIs: M. Crago & E. Bialystok (Psychology, York University)
Co-applicant: F. Genesee
SSHRC Dual language learning: Exploring the limits of the language
Gracco, Vincent CIHR Functional imaging studies of spoken language production
Co-applicants: S. Baum & R. Ho
CIHR Neuroimaging studies of auditory processing in individuals who stutter
PI: Luc DeNil (SLP, University of Toronto)
SSHRC Le développement du contraste i/y en français : Le rôle des indices visuels et auditifs
PI: L. Ménard
Co-applicants: S. Baum & V. Gracco
NIH Sensorimotor control of jaw movement
PI: D. Ostry
Grodzinsky, Yosef CRC
CFI Neurolinguistics research laboratory
Harnad, Stevan SSHRC Monitoring, measuring, and maximizing research impact
SSHRC Identifying new avenues for multidisciplinary research on categorisation in cognitive science
PI C. Lefebvre
JISC Interoperable repository statistics
PI: S. Coles
JISC E-prints community
PI: S. Hitchcock
JISC Preservation eprints service
PI: S. Hitchcock
NSERC Symbol grounding across languages
CRC Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Sciences
Klein, Denise NSERC Cerebral organization in the mother tongue and second languages
Lyster, Roy SSHRC Developing procedural knowledge for gender attribution in French L2
SSHRC Learning each other's language: The missing link in second language research
SSHRC Spotlighting Canadian research on language learning: A joint Canada-US applied linguistics conference in Montreal
SSHRC Bilingual education in Canada's official languages: Meeting the needs of all students
PI: F. Genesee
Co-applicants: R. Lyster & R. Savage
SSHRC The impact of Canadian minority and majority language environments and instructional programs on learning difficult grammatical morphemes in French
PI: M. Crago
Co-applicants: R. Lyster & J. Paradis (Linguistics, University of Alberta)
FQRSC Centre for the study of learning and performance
PI: P. Abrami (Education, Concordia)
McFarland, David NSERC Development of respiratory-swallowing coordination
Ménard, Lucie SSHRC Une étude articulatoire et acoustique de la parole produite par des locuteurs atteints de troubles moteurs
Co-applicants: S. Baum, D. McFarland & H. Cohen
NSERC Le développement des relations production-perception en parole
CFI Le rôle de la vision et de l'audition dans la production de la parole
SSHRC Le développement du contraste i/y en français : le rôle des indices visuels et auditifs
Co-applicants: S. Baum & V. Gracco
FQRSC Le développement du contrôle moteur de la parole
Onishi, Kristine NSERC Sounds and sound patterns of language acquisition and use
FQRSC Compréhension des actions d'autrui par les bébés
Ostry, David NIH Control of human arm stiffness
NIH Sensorimotor control of human jaw movement
Co-applicant: V. Gracco
FQRNT Études des contrôles du mouvement humain: La nature de l’apprentissage moteur
FQRNT Études des contrôles du mouvement humain: La nature de l’apprentissage moteur - Equipment
NSERC Determinants of arm and orofacial movements
Palmer, Caroline NSERC Motion capture of fine finger movements in performance - Equipment
CIHR Electrophysiological investigations of prosodic processing
PI: K. Steinhauer
Co-applicants: S. Baum & C. Palmer
NSERC Memory and motor control in performance
CRC Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuropsychology of Performance
CFI Sequence production laboratory
Pell, Marc CIHR Effects of Parkinson s disease on communication and language perception
NSERC Neuro-cognitive studies of vocal emotion processing in speech
WDS* Investigations of emotional communication in disordered and healthy adults
CIHR Dissolution of nonverbal communication in Parkinson's disease: dimensions, factors, and early progression - New Investigator
Phillips, Natalie SSHRC An electrophysiological study of processing quantifiers in discourse
Co-applicants: S. Baum & V. Dwivedi
CIHR Perceptual and cognitive mechanisms of audio-visual speech perception in aging
NSERC Electrical brain mechanisms of executive control in task switching
CIHR Intolerance of uncertainty and fear of anxiety in generalized anxiety disorder: Cognitive processing in nonclinical and clinical samples
PI: M. Dugas (Psychology, Concordia)
ASC* Executive control of attention in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment
VRQ Consortium cognition et vieillissement
PI: H. Chertkow
Polka, Linda SSHRC Beginnings in language acquisition: The infant's perceptual adaptation to linguistic diversity
NSERC Developmental patterns in vowel perception
CLLRNet The impact of early otitis media on infant speech perception and production skill
PI: S. Rvachew
Rvachew, Susan NSERC Impact of the auditory environment on early vocal development
CLLRNet Maximizing effectiveness of phonological therapy
Steinhauer, Karsten NSERC Brain signatures of nativeness in native-like second language
CIHR Electrophysiological investigations of prosodic processing
Co-applicants: S. Baum & C. Palmer
CIHR Speech processing subsequent to focal brain damage
PI: S. Baum
CFI Research laboratory for electrophysiological studies in the neurocognition of language
CRC Canada Research Chair in the Neurocognition of Language
Thordardottir, Elin SSHRC Effects of bilingual exposure on lexical and syntactic development in French and English
CLLRNet Efficacy of two treatment approaches for the remediation of language impairment in bilingual children
Co-applicants: S. Rvachew & M. Sarkar
Titone, Debra McGill Social threat, politeness, and language
McGill Tomlinson science teaching project
CRC Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience of Language and Memory
CFI Establishment of a laboratory for the cognitive neuroscience of language and memory
NSERC From word meaning to metaphor: The cognitive neuroscience of contextualized language processing
Vouloumanos, Athena NSERC Infants' first steps into language: The nature, scope, and use of a bias for speech
FQRSC Statistiques et contraintes liées à l'apprentissage des mots
White, Lydia FQRSC Interfaces: language acquisition in different contexts
Co-applicants: M. Crago, F. Genesee, H. Goad, E.Thordardottir, P. Prévost & Y. Oshima-Takane
NSERC Brain signatures of nativeness in second language acquisition
PI: K. Steinhauer
Co-applicants: F. Genesee & L. White
SSHRC The role of features in L2 grammars: explaining discrepancies between syntax and morphology
JMP* Second language acquisition

Associate Members

Boberg, Charles SSHRC Variation and change in the phonetics of Canadian English.
Donin, Janet VRQ Développement, intégration et évaluation des technologies de formation et apprentissage: Human tutoring and the design of computer tutoring systems (2.4).
Goad, Heather SSHRC Richness in representation in emerging grammars
FQRSC Interfaces: language acquisition in different contexts
PI: L. White
Co-applicants: M. Crago, F. Genesee, H. Goad, E.Thordardottir, P. Prévost & Y. Oshima-Takane
Gualmini, Andrea McGill The role of context in child language
Labelle, Marie FQRSC L’acquisition du français langue seconde par les élèves autochtones de la maternelle à la 6e année du primaire: les défis à relever
PI: : L. Morris (Linguistics, UQAM)
SSHRC L’acquisition de la morphologie dérivationnelle et flexionnelle chez les enfants apprenant le français langue seconde
FQRSC Une juste mesure : Développement d’instruments et de critères d’évaluation linguistique pour des élèves allophones du niveau primaire du système scolaire francophone
PI: : L. Morris (Linguistics, UQAM)
Pike, Bruce FRSQ L’Imagerie par resonance magnétique (IRM) anatomique et fonctionnelle du cerveau
CIHR The functional significance of a cubic centimeter: Stress, memory & hippocampal volumes in young and aged humans
PI: S. Lupien (MNI, McGill)
CIHR Brain anatomy in musicians and the blind
PI: R. Zatorre (MNI, McGill)
MSSC Imaging demyelination and remyelination in MS
PI: D. Arnold (MNI, McGill)
RRTQ Development and validation of -galactosidase molecular magnetic resonance imaging (mMRI) for imaging lacZReporter gene expression in transgenic animal models
CIHR Quantitative magnetic resonance of Multiple Sclerosis
NIH Novel MRI probes for in vivo molecular imaging
PI: A. Evans (MNI, McGill)
FQRNT Biomedical image analysis
PI: K. Siddiqi (Computer Science, McGill)
CIHR Functional magnetic resonance imaging and cognitive functions following mild traumatic brain injury
PI: A. Ptito (MNI, McGill)
CIHR Functional magnetic resonance imaging of brain physiology
WDS* Quantitative MRI
CIHR Long-term consequences of prenatal exposure to maternal cigarette smoking on brain structure, function and mental health in adolescence: Role of genes and environment in brain development
PI: T. Paus (MNI, McGill)
CIHR Magnetic resonance neuroimaging
CFI Montreal consortium for brain imaging research
Co-PI: A. Evans (MNI, McGill)
NIH Pediatric brain MRI database and study of normal development - technical proposal
PI: A. Evans (MNI, McGill)
Royle, Phaedra SSHRC Acquisition of adjective agreement in spanish children with and wthout language impairment
SSHRC Children's performance on within- and across-modality tasks using two types of graphic symbols
PI: N. Trudeau (SLP, Université de Montréal)
U de M* Projet pilote sur les effets sémantiques, morphologiques et phonologiques dans l'accès lexical en français : une étude de décision lexicale avec amorce
FQRSC Outils morphosyntaxiques pour le dépistage de la dysphasie chez les jeunes francophones
U de M* Projet pilote sur les effets sémantiques, morphologiques et phonologiques dans l'accès lexical au verbe en français : une étude de potentiels évoqués
Savage, Robert CTREQ ABRACADABRA: Un système Web équilibré d'intervention en lecture à l'échelle du mot et du texte
PI: P Abrami (Education, Concordia)
FQRSC Evaluating technology-based learning environments
US Dept. of Ed. Using technology to coordinate core and supplementary reading instruction in Success for All schools
SSHRC Bilingual education in Canada's official languages: Meeting the needs of all students
PI: F. Genesee
Co-applicants: R. Lyster & R. Savage
IF* ABRACADABRA: A balanced reading approach for Canadians designed to achieve best results for all
PI: P. Abrami (Education, Concordia)
SSHRC Children s use of analogies in reading and spelling acquisition
Travis, Lisa SSHRC Predicate movement: Cross-linguistically and theoretically
*ASC - Alzheimer's Society of Canada
*IF - Inukshuk Fund
*JMP - James McGill Professorship
*U de M - Université de Montréal
*WDS - William Dawson Scholar