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Richard Compton
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Latest funding
- $36,418
Belief Updating Dynamics: Information Aggregation and Information Acquisition
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $122,465
Decomposing Clause Types in Inuktut
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $50,000
Transmission and Knowledge of the Inuit Language
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
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Belief Updating Dynamics: Information Aggregation and Information Acquisition
Principal investigators: Hossain, Tanjim
Keywords: Dynamic belief updating; Non-Bayesian learning; Belief elicitation; Lab experiments; Consumer learning; Expert advice
Decomposing Clause Types in Inuktut
Principal investigators: Compton, Richard J.
Transmission and Knowledge of the Inuit Language
Principal investigators: Compton, Richard
Entre décolonisation et autochtonisation : comment penser un monde plus juste ?
Principal investigators: Farget, Doris
Keywords: autochtonisation; décolonisation; autodétermination; réconciliation
21st Inuit Studies Conference / 21e Congrès d'études Inuit / Inuit Qaujisarninut Katimanirjuanga 21
Principal investigators: Compton, Richard J.
Keywords: Inuit; Inuvialuit; Inupiat; Kalaallit; Yupik; Aleut; Tunumiit; Inuit Nunagnat; Inuit studies; Nunavut; Nunatsiavut; Nunavik; Greenland; Inuvialuit settlement region; Alaska; Indigenous
Transmission and Knowledge of the Inuit Language
Principal investigators: Compton, Richard
Keywords: Inuit; Inuktut; Inuktun; Inuktitut; Inuttitut; Inuttut; Inuinnaqtun; language; grammar; morphology; syntax; phonology; language documentation; language revitalization; language maintenance; language preservation; word formation; polysynthesis; agreement; grammatical categories; prosody
Transmission and Knowledge of the Inuit Language
Principal investigators: Compton, Richard
Keywords: Inuit; Inuktut; Inuktun; Inuktitut; Inuttitut; Inuttut; Inuinnaqtun; language; grammar; morphology; syntax; phonology; language documentation; language revitalization; language maintenance; language preservation; word formation; polysynthesis; agreement; grammatical categories; prosody
Polysynthesis and wordhood in Inuit
Principal investigators: Compton, Richard J.
Keywords: syntactic theory; universal grammar; polysynthesis; wordhood; word formation; incorporation; restructuring; modification; prosody; Inuit; Inuktitut; Inuinnaqtun
The nature of parameters: representing language universals and language variation
Principal investigators: Travis, Lisa D.
Keywords: syntactic theory; universal grammar; language variation; parameters; language change: ergativity; austronesian; Mayan; Inuit; Salish; Wakashan; Tsimshianic
Workshop on structure and constituency in languages of the Americas
Principal investigators: Compton, Richard J.
Keywords: Aboriginal languages; Indigenous languages; First Nations languages; linguistics; syntax; morphology; phonology; semantics; Algonquian; Inuit; Athabaskan; Salish; Mayan; Uto-Aztecan; language revitalisation; linguistic theory; polysynthesis; wordhood
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