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Vedran Dronjic is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Northern Arizona University. His research spans psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, and morphological processing, with a focus on bilingualism and heritage language development.
In psycholinguistics, his work examines how morpheme-level analysis and lexical structures influence language acquisition, evidenced by studies on Canadian-born trilingual children’s narrative skills and subordination patterns. Recent neurocognitive research explores consolidation mechanisms for morphologically derived words using fMRI, particularly in Hebrew speakers, while older studies (e.g., 2017) investigate cross-linguistic impacts of semantics, phonology, and orthography on reading comprehension in Chinese.
His publications highlight interdisciplinary trends, integrating cognitive science and educational frameworks to analyze working memory’s role in L2 reading comprehension and the decomposition of novel words in early learning stages. Despite a 181 citation count, the text contains no explicit mentions of scientific awards, lab affiliations, or formal student advising.
