National Science Foundation graduate fellowship, 1966-1969.
Research grant number 30-17 from the Dutch Foundation for the Advancement of Pure Research (Z.W.O.) for studies on the critical period and second language acquisition, 1974-1976.
Research grant from Faculty of Letters, University of Amsterdam, for studies on cross-cultural aspects of mother-infant interaction, 1976-1977.
National Institute of Education grant, "The contribution of out-of-school experiences to the acquisition of literacy" (with Jeanne Chall), 1980-1982.
Spencer Foundation, "The social psychology of language: The language of nurturance and affection" (with Harry Levin), 1979-1981.
Milton Fund, "Studies in the acquisition of Spanish grammar" (with Lawrence Solan), 1980-1981.
Spencer Foundation, "The contribution of routines to the development of knowledge structure," 1981-1982. Renewed under title "The elaboration of knowledge structures beyond routine situations," 1982-1983.
Fellowship for 1982-1983 at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Milton Fund, "Studies in the acquisition of Spanish morphology" (with Lawrence Solan), 1982-1983.
MacArthur Network on the Transition from Infancy to Childhood:
New England Node grant, "Development of individual styles in communicative competence and preferences" (with N. Mueller, D. Wolf, M. Watson and S. Reznick), 1982-1984.
New England Node grant, "Studies on the acquisition of phonetic categories and phonological rules (with J. Miller and P. Eimas), 1982-1984.
Foundation grant, "Child Language Data Exchange System (with Brian MacWhinney), 1983-1985.
New England Node grant, "Parent-child interaction: Assessing attitudes vs behavior", 1984-1985.
New England Node grant, "Imitativeness as a dimension of individual style," 1985-1986.
Network grant, "Assessment of Individual Differences in the Fourth Year," (with Dennis Wolf), 1986-1987.
Spencer Foundation, "Negative feedback in language development," 1984-1985.
Spencer Foundation, "Individual differences in language acquisition: The role of imitation," 1985-1986.
Spencer Foundation, "Factors affecting the acquisition of conversational and literacy skills in a foreign language," 1984-1986.
Center for Research in Language and Education (NIE), "Contextualized and decontextualized language skills," 1985-1989.
Ford Foundation, "Development of decontextualized language skills," (with David Dickinson), 1988-1991.
NIH, "Foundations for language assessment in spontaneous speech," (PI of program project), 1988-1993.
NIH, "The development of speech acts and conversational skill," (PI of subproject within Foundations for language assessment in spontaneous speech), 1988-1993.
Spencer Foundation, "Home-school study of language and literacy development," 1991-1993, renewed 1993-1996.
March of Dimes, "The development of pragmatic skills in children with autism, Down Syndrome, and brain lesions," (with Barbara Pan), (1992-94).
Department of Education, Title VII, "Fellowships for Doctoral Students," 1991-1994, renewed 1994-1997, 1998-2001.
Manpower Development Research Corporation, Embedded Observational Studies within Evaluations of New Chance and Jobs Programs (with Patton Tabors and Jeanne De Temple), 1993-1996. Refunded for 1996-1999, through Child Trends.
Faculty Research Fund, Harvard Graduate School of Education, "The acquisition of Creole languages: A pilot study." 1995-1996.
Administration for Children Youth and Families (ACYF), "Harvard Graduate School of Education: Early Education Services Research Partnership," (with Barbara Pan and Cathy Ayoub), 1996-2001.
W.T.Grant Foundation, "Home and School Factors: Low income children." (with Patton Tabors), 1996-1999.
OERI, "Vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension in English-language learners," (with Barry McLaughlin & Diane August), 1996-1999.
David Rockerfeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University. Research grant, "Children learning Spanish: A synthesis and research agenda," 1998, renewed 2000.
Carnegie Corporation, "Helping teachers teach reading" (with Carolyn Adger and Dorothy Strickland), 2000 - 2002.
NICHD, "Cross-linguistic, intralinguistic, and developmenal factors affecting the acquisition of English literacy skills by native Spanish-speaking children," (Program project with several collaborators), 2000 - 2005.