The project title is Phonological cognisance and allied linguistic representations: acquisition, bilingualism, change and script (PAAL). PAAL’s objective is to investigate the interaction of phonological representations with cognisance, and their relationship to script.
The project abstract explains its activity and aims:
“We view cognisance as part of the native speaker’s core knowledge of their language. This includes generalisations about constraints on phonological representations in terms of features, size and shapes of morphemes, tone and metrical structures. We argue that cognisance is involved in all levels of language processing and change, in both spoken and written modalities. Speakers may have different vocabularies — but the phonological cognisance of individuals within a speech community should converge. Our working hypothesis is that phonological cognisance and representation govern spoken and written language processing, language acquisition and change.”
Commenting on the grant, Professor Lahiri said
I am deeply honoured to receive this grant... It will be a special privilege to be able to closely interact with colleagues in Norway and the Netherlands. And, as always, the success of all grants depends on the hard work of the postdoctoral fellows. These are the scholars who should be feted.
Prof Lahiri previously received Advanced Investigator Awards (ERC) for the projects
“PERTNINACITY IN PHONOLOGY : Synchrony, diachrony, processing, modelling” (2022-2027)
“MORPHON: Resolving Morpho-Phonological Alternation: Historical, Neurolinguistic, and Computational approaches” (2016-2021)
“WORDS: Asymmetry, change and processing in phonological mental representation” (2011-2016)
