Edna Andrews, Ph.D.
Phone: 919-660-3142
321B Languages Bldg
Durham, NC 27708
Email: eda AT duke DOT edu
Professor and Director
Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies and the Slavic and East European Language Research Center
Linguistics & Cultural Anthropology, Arts & Sciences
Research Description
I carry out fMRI studies on multilingualism, speech perception studies, and studies of the perception of spoken and sung phonemes across languages.
Education
Ph.D., Indiana University, Slavic Linguistics, 1984
M.A., Indiana University, Slavic Linguistics, 1980
B.S., University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa), Mathematics, minor in Russian, 1979
Recent Publications
“Language and Brain: Recasting Meaning in the Definition of Human Language.” Semiotica 2011, Issue 184-1/4, pp. 11-32.
“Second language teaching: A view from the right side of the brain (review).” Language 2007, vol. 83, No. 2, pp. 430-431.
“Cross-cultural linguistic realizations of conceptualizations of anger: Revisiting cognitive and pragmatic paradigms.” In “Contemporary issues in Slavic and Eastern European studies, with Tina Krennmayr. September, Glossos , 2007, No. 9.
“H.M/s Language Skills: Clues About Language and the Medial Temporal Lobe.” co-authored with B. Skotko and G. Einstein. Journal of Memory and Language 2005, 53, pp. 397-415.
Research Areas
Research Topics
- Language and the brain
- Speech perception
- Multilingualism
