The NILOMORPH project investigates an unusual linguistic evolution in East African languages, specifically within the West Nilotic family, languages such as ‘Dinka’ express multiple grammatical categories in a single syllable by altering features such as the vowel length, tone and breathiness.
MatCo's main questions is how such neurostructural and neurofunctional features determine and, in fact, bring about specific cognitive and linguistic functions
Example of a brain constrained network and its corresponding cortical areas. The network is used for simulating word processing and semantic learning in the human brain. For explanation, please see text below (adapted from Pulvermüller et al., 2021).
