Linguistics PhD student Donald Dunagan has been comparing brain activity in speakers of English and Chinese.

Along with fellow Ph.D. student Shulin Zhang and advisor Dr. John Hale, he finds that speakers of those two languages use roughly the same brain areas to understand relative clauses. This similarity is notable given the differences in word order between the two languages.

As part of the NSF-funded project “Endangered languages in contact in Istria and Kvarner, Croatia (ELIC)", Dr. Keith Langston (PI) and Dr. Zvjezdana Vrzić (NYU, Co-PI) led two workshops in Croatia at the University of Rijeka and University of Pula in June, assisted by Dr. Silvana Vranić (University of Rijeka) and Dr. Ivana Lalli-Paćelat (University of Pula), who are also collaborating on this project.

This week, faculty member Dr. Dustin Chacón was awarded a Faculty Seed Grant from the University of Georgia’s Office of Research.