Rushen Shi, Université du Québec à Montréal

Research

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Latest funding

Acquisition and representation of unergativity and unaccusativity in infants and toddlers
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$122,457
Rule generalization from impoverished input
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$165,000
Functional morphemes and mechanisms of early language processing
NSERC · 2014 · Principal investigator
$204,000

All 9 grants and awards

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Acquisition and representation of unergativity and unaccusativity in infants and toddlers

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Shi, Rushen

$122,457

Rule generalization from impoverished input

Principal investigatorNSERC2022Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Shi, Rushen

Keywords: cognitive processes; input & early acquisition of knowledge; infancy

$165,000

Functional morphemes and mechanisms of early language processing

Principal investigatorNSERC2014Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Shi, Rushen

$204,000

Linguistic constraints in language acquisition

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010

Principal investigators: Shi, Rushen

Keywords: language acquisition; linguistic constraints; underlying phonological representations; parsing

$105,713

Functional morphemes and mechanisms of early language processing

Principal investigatorNSERC2008Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Shi, Rushen

$119,680

Hardware and software for infant language research

Principal investigatorNSERC2004Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Shi, Rushen

$19,000

Grand travail concerté sur les asymétries d'interfaces et le traitement cognitif

Co-investigatorSSHRC2003Major Collaborative Research Initiatives Program

Principal investigators: Di Sciullo, Anne-Marie

Keywords: asymétrie; interfaces; traitement cognitif; morphologie; phonologie; sémantique; syntaxe; recherche de l'information sur support informatique; analyseur sémantique et syntaxique; grammaire universelle; interprétation sémantique; interprétation phonétique

$2,500,000

Parental speech and infants' perception of rudimentary phrases: cross-language studies

Principal investigatorSSHRC2003Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Shi, Rushen

Keywords: language development; speech perception; speech production; acoustic phonetics; psycholinguistic experiments; chinese linguistics

$170,701

Function words and early language processing

Principal investigatorNSERC2003Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Shi, Rushen

$88,000

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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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Shi, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Acquisition and representation of unergativity and unaccusativity in infants and toddlers" (2025), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]