Faculty Distinctions

Editorships

Awards

• University Distinguished Scholar Award 2008
• Visiting Scholar, Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Tübingen

• Honorary Doctorate, The University of Patras, Greece 2008
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (named November 2006)
• Visiting Linguist, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, September 10 – 20, 2006
• Ph.D. Honoris Causa, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia (awarded August 9, 2006)
• Distinguished University Professorship, May 2003-present
• Visiting Professor, LOT (Netherlands Graduate School in Linguistics) Summer School, Leuven, Belgium, June 11-14, 2007

• Visiting Research Grant, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain, 2007
• Instructor, European Summer School on Logic, Language, and Information. Dublin, August 2007.

Grants

• National Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorders, DC02932, A cross-linguistic investigation of phonological development, with Jan Edwards, 2003-2008.
• University of Wisconsin, Madison, A cross-linguistic investigation of phonological development 2005-2008.

• Learning lexical resources from sparsely labeled data (Chris Brew, Jianguo Li, Kirk Baker, Dennis Mehay, DJ Hovermale) One strand of our research is funded (generously) by NSF with a CAREER grant to work on Hybrid methods for acquisition and tuning of lexical information.

• Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences. (Co-Principal Investigator, with John Grinstead and Laura Wagner). Interfaces of the mind: the development of language and its integration with other cognitive domains. (Arts and Humanities Innovation Grant).

• Ohio State University College Arts & Humanities Seed Grant, A Quantitative Theory of Language Specific and Universal Markedness. 9/05-6/06.

• Conference grant (jointly with Dr. Hope C. Dawson of Ohio State) from Salus Mundi Foundation in support of 25th East Coast Conference on Indo-European Linguistics, June 2006.

• Principal Investigator of the project "Exploration of Error Detection and Correction in Corpus Annotation". National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Information & Intelligent Systems, Human Language and Communication. 2006–(ongoing).
• Principal Investigator of the project "Bridging the Gap between Research in Natural Language Processing and Individualized Language Instruction". Arts and Humanities Grants for Innovation. Office of Research, Ohio State University. 2005–(ongoing).

• Norges Forskningsråd, BILAT (2007), "Saami phonology: field-work and analysis" at University of Tromsø.

• An OSU Arts and Humanities Grant for Innovation to hold a workshop in October, 2006 on Presupposition Accommodation: Constraining the use of implicit background knowledge in interpretation.

• "Intonation in unscripted Japanese & English dialogue," (Principal Investigator, Co-I Ito) National Science Foundation, BCS-0617609, May 2007 – April 2010.
• "Intonation in spontaneous Japanese & English dialogue," (Principal Investigator, Co-Is Ito, Byron) National Institutes of Deafness and Communication Disorders, DC007090. July 2006 – June 2011.

• Course development grant from the Center for Latin American Studies at the OSU for an undergraduate course on American Indigenous Languages.

• National Science Foundation, Workshop Grant. 2007 "A Proposal for a Workshop on Shared Tasks and Comparative Evaluation in Natural Language Generation." PI, with co-PI Robert Dale, Macquarie University.
• The Ohio State University, Innovation Grant:. 2007--2009 "Building Expressive Synthetic Voices for Conversational Systems," Arts and Humanities Innovation Grant. PI, with co-PIs Chris Brew and Eric Fosler-Lussier.