Research funding

Research conducted by the English Language and Linguistics staff has been supported by grants and awards from the University of Kent as well as from external funding bodies. Most recently, ELL staff have attracted the following external awards:

  • ‘Speaking or singing? Unveiling individual variation in the perception of the “speech-to-song illusion”’ (Dr Tamara Rathcke is the PI of this project funded by the British Academy, collaborating with Simone Falk and Simone Dalla Bella; 2016-2018)
  • ‘Establishing Common Ground: The Interaction of Linguistic Knowledge, World Knowledge and Shared Experience in the Online Resolution of Conext-Dependent Meaning‘ (Dr Christina Kim is the PI of this project funded by the British Academy; 2015-2017)
  • ‘The New Historical Linguistics and the World of Annotated Corpora’ (Dr Laura Bailey was awarded funding from the British Council and FAPESP to attend this workshop in Campinas, Brazil, 9-13 March 2015)
  • ‘A Common Prosody Platform for Testing Theories and Models of Speech Prosody’ (Prof. Amalia Arvaniti is a consultant on this NSF funded research project led by Doug Whalen and Yi Xu; 2014-2016)
  • ‘An experimental investigation of prominence and rhythm in Korean” (Prof. Amalia Arvaniti is the PI of this project funded by the Academy of Korean Studies; she is collaborating with Dr Hae-Sung Jeon; 2014-2015)
  • ‘Acquisition of Syntactic and Pragmatic Aspects of Control and Binding: a comparison between autistic and non-autistic children’ (Dr Vikki Janke secured funding from the British Academy to support her ongoing collaborative work on autism, 2012-2014)
  • ‘Cognitive mechanisms in the perception, representation, and organisation of knowledge‘ (Prof. Amalia Arvaniti’s collaborative project with Prof. Stella Vosniadou from the University of Athens received funds from the Greek Ministry of Education, 2012-2015)
  • ‘Meaning in Context’ (along with pricipal investigators Prof. Chris Kennedy and Prof. Ming Xiang, Dr Christina Kim was awarded a National Science Foundation grant to carry out research on meaning in context, 2012-2014)
  • ‘Methodological challenges in the real-time studies of language and sound change’ (Dr Tamara Rathcke secured funding from the Royal Society of Edinburgh to support her research stay at the LANCHART Research Centre, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 2012)
  • ‘Corpus oraux et typologie de l’articulation syntaxe/prosodie’ (Collaborative research by Prof. Amalia Arvaniti and Prof. Martine Vanhove from the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris is supported by a grant from the Federation of Typology and Language Universals, 2011-2014)
  • ‘Rhythms in Scotland’ (along with co-applicant Dr Rachel Smith from the University of Glasgow, Dr Tamara Rathcke was awarded an Arts and Humanities Workshop Award from the Royal Society of Edinburgh to organise a series of interdisciplinary events which brought together academics and practitioners working on rhythm across Scotland, 2011-2012)
  • ‘Time in mental activity (TIMELY): theoretical, behavioural, bioimaging, and clinical perspectives‘ (along with principal investigator Prof. Argiro Vatakis, Prof. Amalia Arvaniti contributed to a major interdisciplinary COST Action networking grant, awarded by the European Science Foundation, 2010-2013)
  • ‘Generating Alternatives: Processing Focus Structure in Discourse’ (Dr Christina Kim’s doctoral research was supported by the National Science Foundation, 2010-2012)
  • ‘Acoustic bases of the Speech-To-Song Illusion’ (Dr Tamara Rathcke received funds from the Royal Society of Edinburgh for fostering her collaborative research with colleagues from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany, 2010)
  • ‘The syntax of polar question particles’ (Dr Laura Bailey’s doctoral research was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, 2008-2011)