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Research Support

External Grants

National Institutes of Health, Co-Principal Investigator with Peter F. MacNeilage, Department of Psychology, Motor Control of Serial Organization of Early Speech, 2002-2006.

National Institutes of Health, Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, supporting Post-doctoral fellow Courtney T. Byrd, Phonological Priming in Children Who Stutter, 2004-2005.

Texas Advanced Research Program (TARP) Grant, Principal Investigator, Sensory Influences in Early Speech Acquisition, 2000-2002.

National Institutes of Health, Co-Principal Investigator with Peter F. MacNeilage, Department of Psychology, Motor Control of Serial Organization of Early Speech, 1996-2000.

National Institutes of Health, Investigator with Peter F. MacNeilage, Department of Linguistics, Motor Control of Serial Organization of Early Speech, 1992-1995.

International Grant Partner

Laboratoire Dynamic du Langage, Institute des Sciences de l’Homme, Universite Lumiere of Lyon 2, Lyon, France 2006-2009, Complexite, Langage et Langues, International Partner on Agence Nationale de France Programme non thematique grant on acquisition of phonogical complexity in speech production across languages.

Laboratoire Dynamic du Langage, Institute des Sciences de l’Homme, Universite Lumiere of Lyon 2, Lyon, France 2000-2006, Origines de l’Homme, du Langage et des Langues, International partner consulting on aspects of instrumentation, data collection, tabulation, and analysis for acquisition of speech production acquisition in the Arabic, Berber, Romanian, and Turkish languages to study the relation between the acquisition and the evolution of language.

Institut de la Communication Parlee, Grenoble, France, University of Texas at Austin Partner on OHLL (Language, Languages, and Human Origins) grant, 2000-2006. Controle orofacial dans la communication chez les primates at non-humains: Neaderthal, le singe et l’homme. Consulting on use of infant speech acquisition data for comparison in development of vocal tract modeling using Maeda’s vocal tract model and robotics.

Internal Grants

University Research Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Faculty leave award, Spring, 2006.

College of Communication, The University of Texas at Austin, Faculty leave; Instructional Design Group Grant, Spring 2001.

University Research Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Faculty leave award, Fall, 1999.

College of Communication, The University of Texas at Austin, Joe Jamail Faculty Research Grant, Early acquisition of Speech Motor Control: Cross Linguistic Perspectives, Summer, 1998.

College of Communication, The University of Texas at Austin, Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, Relationship of Vocal and Gestural Development in Vocally Delayed Infants, April, 1996.

College of Communication, The University of Texas at Austin, Joe Jamail Faculty Research Grant, Early speech delay; Insights from the Acquisition of Normal Speech Motor Control, December, 1995.

University Research Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Summer Faculty Research Award, Phonetic Constraints in Normal Speech Development: Potential Explanation for Disordered Speech Development, January, 1995.

University Research Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Faculty Development Grant, Speech Perception and Production Abilities in Developmental Apraxia of Speech, January, 1994.

University Research Institute Grant, The University of Texas at Austin, Faculty Development Grant, Exploration of Maternal Speech Input in Early Speech Perception, 1993.