Caroline Arvidsson and Anastasia "Nastja" Panova. Private photos.

Anastasia Panova completed both her BA and MA degrees at the HSE University in Moscow. In autumn 2020, she studied at our department as an exchange student and worked on her MA thesis on the typology of continuative expressions under the supervision of Ljuba Veselinova. In her research, Anastasia has mostly focused on specific topics in the grammar of minority languages of Russia and non-standard varieties of Russian. In her forthcoming PhD project she will study the syntax of Gawarbati (Indo-Aryan), an under-described language spoken in the border area of Pakistan and Afghanistan. The data for the thesis come from the corpus of Gawarbati texts which are being collected and annotated within the project "Gawarbati: Documenting a vulnerable linguistic community in the Hindu Kush". The project is led by Henrik Liljegren, who is also Anastasia's supervisor.

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Gawarbati: Documenting a vulnerable linguistic community in the Hindu Kush

Caroline Arvidsson got her education at the Department of Linguistics. In the spring of 2022, she completed her MA degree in general linguistics with the thesis "The brain in conversation: Mapping the neural correlates of turntaking, production, and comprehension using fMRI". Results from her study showed that regions outside the classical language network in the brain are activated just before speaking in a conversation. These areas have previously been related to intention processing and attention. In her thesis project, Caroline will continue to study the cognitive processes that support conversation. Among other things, she will participate in two research project led by her supervisor Julia Uddén.

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CIVung - Behavioral and neural correlates of pragmatic development during adolescence

Using Neuroimaging Data for Exploring Conversational Engagement in Human-Robot Interaction (digitalfutures.kth.se)