About me
I am a neurolinguist and psycholinguist that specializes in syntactic processing, grammar-parser relations, language variation, language acquisition, and South Asian languages.
Starting Fall 2024, I will be Assistant Professor at UC Santa Cruz Linguistics. I will maintain a relationship with the University of Georgia Linguistics Lab.
I previously worked at the Neuroscience of Language Lab (NeLLab) at NYU Abu Dhabi, under Profs. Liina Pylkkänen and Alec Marantz, and as Assistant Professor in the Institute of Linguistics at University of Minnesota.
I am also a co-investigator on the SAVANT grant led by Linnaea Stockall, heading the Bengali/Bangla team.
Apart from linguistics, I pass my time reading, writing, doing nerd things, taking photos, playing the harp, and picking up after my cats Sniffle and Olly.
My last name is pronounced /tʃaˈkon/, please keep the <ó>. I use my first name and middle initial in citations, and he/him pronouns
Photo credit Samantha Wray.
News
May 14, 2024
Check out our posters at HSP in Ann Arbor, MI! Donnie Dunagan's presenting a poster ‘An EEG investigation into early syntactic processing: A rapid parallel visual presentation study on agreement and Wh-dependencies in English’.
Hareem Khokhar will be presenting a poster ‘Not moving, fast: An HD-EEG parallel reading study on Urdu and Mandarin Chinese wh-in-situ’.
May 10, 2024
Big news – the FALCoN Lab will be taking flight 🦅 I've accepted a position at UC Santa Cruz and will begin in Fall 2024. We'll continue to build a HD-EEG lab focused on studying language processing across languages and modalities.
May 8, 2024
Two preprints: Donnie Dunagan's ‘Rapid visual form-based processing of (some) grammatical features in parallel reading: An EEG study in English’ is now up on bioRXiv. Check it out here! This is part of a larger collaboration with Liina Pylkkänen at NYU.
My ‘Quick, Don't Move!: Wh-Movement and Wh-In-Situ Structures in Rapid Parallel Reading - EEG studies in English, Urdu, and Mandarin Chinese’ is also up on bioRXiv. Check it out here! This is part of a larger collaboration with Liina Pylkkänen at NYU.
April 18, 2024
Swarnendu Moitra's ‘How long is long? Word length effects in reading correspond to minimal graphemic units: An MEG study in Bangla’ is now published in PLoS One. Check it out here!
April 7, 2024
We're at 14th Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages, hosted by Stony Brook University!
I gave a keynote talk, It’s time!: Relating structure, the brain, and comparative syntax
Hareem Khokhar and Zahin Hoque gave a talk, Is the visual word form-area universal?
Hareem Khokhar presented a poster, Revisiting wh- and movement in Broca's area: An HD-EEG study in parallel reading in Urdu.