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> who studies how dogs and humans process language at the University of Maryland

I gave out quite a laugh while I was reading this. More so, because I peeking at the article with my stern scientific mind. Now I know that dogs and humans process language differently at University of Maryland.

Obviously the sentence should've been written:

> who studies at the University of Maryland how dogs and humans process language

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That sounds very wrong to me… I’d much prefer “who at the University of Maryland studies the processing of language in dogs and humans”.

Personal preference, I believe. But the point still stands: the original sentence is more ambiguous that both our rewritings. Ours just show that the original sentence could be improved.

You're technically correct that the results are only valid for the University of Maryland. The experiments were conducted in a single location, so any potential spatial variation of the observed behavior hasn't been captured in that dataset. ;)

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