As evidenced by leap years, it may seem like humans have an odd way of measuring time, says USC Dornsife professor Vahe Peroomian. Sometimes, timekeepers even have to add extra seconds to clocks.
USC Dornsife senior Evangeline Alva travels to the Amazon as a research assistant of the Desano Language Documentation Project, directed by Dr. Wilson Silva, a linguist at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Dr. Silva’s project, currently funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities’s grant for the Documentation of Endangered Languages (DEL/NEH), aims to document Desano, an indigenous language, spoken in Brazil and Colombia.
