Elizabeth Cowper, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest funding

Feature interactions in complex paradigms: Competition and upstaging
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$49,598
How much instability is there in early childhood education and care, and what is it related to in terms program and child characteristics?
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$87,177
What matters most? Feature competition and morphological upstaging in complex paradigms
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
$45,648

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Feature interactions in complex paradigms: Competition and upstaging

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Bjorkman, Bronwyn M.

Keywords: typology; syntax; morphology; features; comparative linguistics

$49,598

How much instability is there in early childhood education and care, and what is it related to in terms program and child characteristics?

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Perlman, Michal

Keywords: early childhood education and care; childcare quality; instability

$87,177

What matters most? Feature competition and morphological upstaging in complex paradigms

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Siddiqi, Daniel

Keywords: Morphology; Inflection; Markedness; Grammatical Features; Typology; Universal Grammar; Language Description; Implicational Universals; Electronic Resource Development

$45,648

A crosslinguistic study of verbal systems

Co-investigatorSSHRC1997Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Massam, Diane

Keywords: syntax; morphology; verbal systems; clitics; Polynesian; Inuktitut; functional categories; variation; inflection

$54,911

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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