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1 PSC-CUNY Research Awards (Traditional A) Control : TRADA Name : Fodor, Janet Rank: Tenured: College: Panel: Distinguished Professor Yes GRADUATE SCHOOL Anthropology, Classics, Philosophy, Linguistics Address : Telephone : Discipline : Linguistics Human Subject Use Animal Subject Use Supplementary Materials List of Supplementary Material Department LINGUISTICS & COMMUNICATION DISORDERS Title of Proposed Project: Language Materials for a Priming Study of Implicit Prosody

Discipline : Linguistics Human Subject Use Animal Subject Use Supplementary Materials List of Supplementary Material

2 Brief Abstract I request funds to hire a CUNY graduate student as Research Assistant to prepare language materials for a psycholinguistic experiment on implicit prosody (prosody mentally projected onto written language during silent reading). The experiment itself will be conducted in collaboration with a colleague at a neurolinguistics laboratory in France. However, the stimulus words for that experiment need to be drawn from English. A large pool of items is needed, all meticulously vetted for comparability with regard to properties (frequency, morphological complexity, etc.) which might otherwise be confounded with the property of experimental interest: the word s stress pattern. These controls are crucial for reliable conclusions to be drawn. A student RA could undertake this time-consuming task, and in doing so gain some practical skills of service in his/her own future research. I would oversee the student s work, providing guidance as needed. (Please note: funding is requested for running the experiment.) Relevant Publications & Scholarship Janet Dean Fodor PUBLICATIONS in past five years: Kitagawa, Y. and Fodor, J. D. (26) Prosodic influence on syntactic judgments. In G. Fanselow, C. Fery, R. Vogel and M. Schlesewsky (eds.) Gradience in Grammar: Generative Perspectives, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. Visceglia, T. and Fodor, J. D. (26) Fundamental frequency in Mandarin and English: Comparing first- and second-language speakers. In C. Lleó (ed.) Interfaces in Multilingualism: Acquisition and Representation, Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Kam, X. N. C., Stoyneshka, I., Tornyova, L., Fodor, J. D. & Sakas, W. G. (27). Bigrams and the richness of the stimulus. Cognitive Science 32.4, Fodor, J. D., Sakas, W. G. and Hoskey, A. (27). Implementing the Subset Principle in Syntax Acquisition: Lattice-based Models. In Proceedings of EuroCogSci7, S. Vosniadou, D. Kayser, D. and A. Protopapas (eds.). Kam, X. N. C., Stoyneshka, I., Tornyova, L., Fodor, J. D. & Sakas, W. G. (27). Bigram-based

However, the stimulus words for that experiment need to be drawn from English.

3 learning and the richness of the stimulus for language acquisition. In on-line journal Linguistics in the Big Apple (vember 27 issue, at web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/lingu/liba/). Fodor, J. D. (29) Syntax acquisition: An evaluation measure after all? In Of Minds and Language: The Basque Country Encounter with am Chomsky, M. Piatelli Palmarini, J. Uriagereka and P. Salaburu (eds.), Oxford University Press. Fodor, J. D. (29) Contribution to Round Table on Linguistic Universals. In Of Minds and Language: The Basque Country Encounter with am Chomsky, M. Piatelli Palmarini, J. Uriagereka and P. Salaburu (eds.), Oxford University Press. Stoyneshka, I., Fodor, J. D. and Fernandez, E. M. (21) Phoneme restoration methods reveal prosodic influences on syntactic processing. Language and Cognitive Processes (21). Ng, S. and Fodor, J. D. (21) Use your headedness: An exercise in psycholinguistic exploitation. In H. Yamashita, Y. Hirose and J. L. Packard (eds.) Processing and Producing Head-final Structures, Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics 38, Springer. Kam, X-N. C. and Fodor, J. D. (in press) Children s acquisition of syntax: Simple models are too simple. To appear in R. C. Berwick and M. Piatelli- Palmerini (eds.) Papers in Tribute to Carol Chomsky, Oxford University Press. Education Institution Degree Year(s) Discipline Oxford University, BA 1964 Psychology & Philosophy MIT PhD 197 Linguistics Other Current & Past Funding (last 5 years)

), Oxford University Press. Fodor, J. D. (29) Contribution to Round Table on Linguistic Universals. In Of Minds and Language: The Basque Country Encounter with am Chomsky, M. Piatelli Palmarini, J.

4 Period Title Amount Funding Source Attachments Description File Name File Size Date Attached Project Description TRADA Fodor. pdf /24/211 12:9:46 PM Budgets Description Requested Amount Summer Salary (Principal Investigator) Clerical Staff MTA Payroll Tax General Office Supplies/Xeroxing Domestic Travel Foreign Travel Independent Contractors

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5 Payment to Subjects Laboratory Fees Equipment Manuscript Preparation/ Publication Costs Research Supplies The supplies needed are dedicated back-up disks to ensure secure storage for the large lists of stimulus items created and their selected properties Research Staff A research assistant (a CUNY graduate student) is requested for 18 hours per week, for 8 weeks from July 1 to August 26, 21, at $2 per hour. 18 x 8 x $2 = $288 As noted in the proposal, the research assistant would comb a large database of English words, to select 14 carefully matched items to be used as the stimuli in a subsequent neurolinguistic experiment. MTA Payroll Tax Total

3. Research Staff A research assistant (a CUNY graduate student) is requested for 18 hours per week, for 8 weeks from 3163.39 July 1 to August 26, 21, at $2 per hour.

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