ALanguageGuy

I hope the FRQSC decision went your way! (The website is soooo slow). My SSHRC-funded project (30/122) got ranked 15/15 (dead last) by the FRQSC. Oddly enough, I thought I had done a better job on the FRQSC application than the SSHRC application... I guess a lot depends on who is on the committee and what the competition is like?

Yup, got them an hour ago or so. Keeping my fingers crossed for you!

Just got my results (funded):

Thanks! Hopefully this means the rest of us will be getting our results by Friday evening!

Are there still others out there who haven't received their results yet? Do all results get released simultaneously or is it by committee?

I just got a message from the FRQSC (Quebec funding); results will be available tomorrow, 9 AM. Hopefully the SSHRC aren't too far behind!

Do decisions ever get released at weekends? If not, results should be issued between today and Friday evening.

I am investigating which linguistic (e.g. word length) and extralinguistic factors (e.g. gender, age, social attitudes) are most associated with the spread or non-spread of neologisms (new words) using multivariate statistics and a big data approach (massive amounts of Twitter and newspaper data). Knowing which factors favour neologistic spread will be very useful for language planning organisations around the world (including Quebec), as one of their roles is to coin official terms. Hopefully my work will help prevent organisations from proposing "what-were-they-even-thinking" terms like "égoportrait" --the official French translation for "selfie". (Yup, it sounds just as judgemental in French).

I've not received any news as of 21 April.

No, nothing yet, but we should be hearing back from them within the next 10 days or so

First time applying for SSHRC in my new PhD program (Linguistics); I previously was in a neuroscience PhD and my application did not even get out of my university (my scientific cv wasn't great at the time). Best of luck to everyone!