Center for Cognitive Science of Language

Projects

BASIC RESEARCH PROJECTS

Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics (research program)

  • 2013-2024
  • PI: Franc Marušič
  • Funding agency: Slovenian Research Agency
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The limits of freedom: A permutational approach to word order in South Slavic languages

  • 2022-2025
  • PI: Artur Stepanov
  • Funding agency: Slovenian Research Agency
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Acquisition of a minority language in a multilingual context

  • 2021-2024
  • PI: Artur Stepanov
  • Funding agency: Slovenian Research Agency
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SAVANT (Systematicity and Variation In Word Structure Processing Across Languages: A Neuro-Typology Approach)

  • 2021 – 2024
  • PI: Linaea Stockall (Queen Mary University of London); UNG PI: Rok Žaucer
  • Funding agency: Economic and Social Research Council
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More than agreement: how speakers assign syntactic features in real time

  • 2020-2023
  • PI: Penka Stateva (UNG), Julie Franck (U. of Geneva)
  • Funding agency: Slovenian Research Agency (for UNG), Swiss National Science Foundation (for U. of Geneva)
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Linguistic transfer in the pragmatic domain: Slovenian speakers in a multilingual environment

  • 2019-2022
  • PI: Penka Stateva
  • Funding agency: Slovenian Research Agency
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Hyperspacing the Verb: The interplay between prosody, morphology and semantics in the Western South Slavic verbal domain

  • 2019-2022
  • PI: Franc Marušič (UNG), Boban Arsenijević (U. of Graz)
  • Funding agency: Slovenian Research Agency (for UNG), Avstrian Science Fund (for U. of Graz)
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Development of a standardized test of the sentence comprehension ability in Slovenian-speaking adults

  • 2019-2022
  • PI: Artur Stepanov
  • Funding agency: Slovenian Research Agency
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Agreement Mismatches in Experimental Syntax: from Slavic to Bantu

  • 2018 – 2022
  • PI: Andrew Nevins (University College London); UNG PI: Franc Marušič
  • Funding agency: Leverhulme Trust
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Probing the cognitive basis of the cartographic hierarchy of functional projections in the noun phrase

  • 2016-2018 / 2019
  • PI: Rok Žaucer
  • Funding agency: Slovenian Research Agency
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Advancing The European Multilingual Experience (AThEME)

  • 2014-2019
  • PI: Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng (Univerza v Leidnu), UNG PI: Artur Stepanov
  • Funding agency: European Commission, FP7
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Coordinated Research in the Experimental Morphosyntax of South Slavic Languages (EMSS)

  • 2014 – 2018
  • PI: Andrew Nevins (University College London); UNG PI: Franc Marušič
  • Funding agency: Leverhulme trust
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Collaborative Research: Language structure and number word learning

  • 2014-2017
  • PI: David Barner (University of California, San Diego)
  • Funding agency: National Science Foundation
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Relation between the acquisiton of the dual and of the number system as an indicator of the connection/independence of language and general cognition

  • 2013-2016
  • PI: Franc Marušič
  • Funding agency: Slovenian Research Agency
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Incorporation of the selected grammars by Slovenian authors into the international corpus CTLF – Corpus de textes linguistiques fondamentaux and establishement of the portal of the Slovenian grammars and orthographical dictionaries

  • 2011-2014
  • PI: Kozma Ahačič (Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
  • Funding agency: Slovenian Research Agency
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RECLING – Rekurzija in hierarhija kot temeljna načela človekovega jezikovnega znanja

  • 2011-2013
  • PI: Artur Stepanov
  • Funding agency: Slovenian Research Agency
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Characterization of ligand-receptor interactions

  • 2008-2011
  • PI: Jure Zupan (National Institute of Chemistry)
  • Funding agency: Slovenian Research Agency
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APPLIED PROJECTS, ETC.

Ustvarjanje in vzdrževanje e-platforme za jezikovno testiranje in svetovanje na Univerzi v Novi Gorici (SlovSTvo Language Testing and Consulting Platform)

  • 2022 – 2023
  • PI: Artur Stepanov
  • Funding agency: Slovenian Ministry of Culture
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Večjezičnost velja (Bilingualism Matters)

  • 2015-
  • PI: Penka Stateva
  • Funding agency: European commission, FP7 (within AThEME project) for 2015-2019
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RSDO (Development of Slovene in a Digital Environment)

  • 2020 – 2023
  • PI: Simon Krek (University of Ljubljana); UNG PI: Rok Žaucer
  • Funding agency: Republic of Slovenia and European Union (European Regional Development Fund)
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Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure, Slovenia (Clarin)

  • 2014-
  • National coordinator: Tomaž Erjavec (“Jožef Stefan” Institute); UNG responsibles: R. Žaucer, F. Marušič
  • Funding agency: Slovenian Ministry of Education, Science and Sport
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Language Policy of the Republic of Slovenia and the Needs of Users

  • 2016-2017
  • PI: Kozma Ahačič (Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts), UNG PI: Matic Pavlič
  • Funding agency: Slovenian Research Agency, Slovenian Parliament, Slovenian ministries
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Q-and-A language consultancy for Slovenian (JeSv)

Pregled institucionaliziranih oblik izvajanja nacionalnih jezikovnih politik v Evropski uniji

Teoretično-empirična raziskava o jezikovnopolitičnih učinkih obstoječega pravnoformalnega okvira statusa in rabe slovenščine in drugih jezikov v javnosti

Pregled in analiza politik, ki določajo položaj slovenščine nasproti angleščini in drugim tujim jezikom v visokem šolstvu in znanosti

Tujejezična imena lokalov, obratov, poslovnih prostorov ter stališča Slovenije do njih

Merila za ugotavljanje/prepoznavanje slovenskosti ali neslovenskosti imen podjetij, zavodov, društev in drugih pravnih oseb zasebnega prava