September 1988 to February 1991

Synchronic and diachronic relations among spoken and written varieties in Somali. National Science Foundation. $89,106. (#BNS-8811720).

March 1991 to March 1992

Extension to Synchronic and diachronic relations among spoken and written varieties in Somali. National Science Foundation. $14,400. (#BNS-9096258).

November 1990 to November 1993

Diachronic relations among speech-based and written registers in English. National Science Foundation. $162,408. (#BNS-9010893; E. Finegan co-PI).

May 1993 to May 1996

Computational tagging and grammatical analysis of the Longman/Lancaster English Language Corpus. Longman Group UK. $262,500.

May 1996 to May 1998

Extension to Computational tagging and grammatical analysis of the Longman/Lancaster English Language Corpus. Longman Group UK. $18,000.

Aug 1998 to June 2000

Construction and Grammatical Tagging of the TOEFL 2000 Spoken and Written Academic Language Corpus. Educational Testing Services. $400,000.

May 2000 to July 2002

Linguistic analysis of the T2K-SWAL Corpus to develop diagnostic tools for listening and reading texts.  Educational Testing Services. $150,000.

Aug 2002 to May 2005

Multi-dimensional analysis of synchronic and diachronic register variation in Spanish.  National Science Foundation. $150,000.

May to December, 2007    

The effectiveness of feedback for individual writing development:  A meta-analysis.   Educational Testing Services. $30,000.

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