Research
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Number of lives in risky medical decisions matters in gain frames but not in loss frames
Faculty : Dr. Sumitava Mukherjee Using the structure of the ‘Asian Disease’ problem, researchers asked naïve participants and medical students in India about what drug would they administer for clinical…
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Assessing corpus evidence for formal restrictions on crossing dependencies
Faculty: Samar Husain Abstract Formal constraints on crossing dependencies have played a large role in research on the formal complexity of natural language grammars and parsing. Here we ask whether…
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A reappraisal of dependency length minimization as a linguistic universal
Faculty: Samar Husain Abstract Dependency length minimization is widely regarded as a cross-linguistic universal reflecting syntactic complexity in natural languages. A typical way to operationalize dependency length in corpus-based studies…
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Effect of noncanonical word order and argument proximity on processing of SOV languages
Faculty: Samar Husain Abstrac Crosslinguistic word order variation can be understood as a consequence of processing con straints. While the effect of word order during sentence comprehension has been studied…
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Preverbal syntactic complexity leads to local coherence effects
Faculty: Samar Husain Abstract The effective use of preverbal linguistic cues to make successful clause-final verbal prediction as well as robust maintenance of such predictions has been argued to be…
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Linguistic Complexity and Planning Effects on Word Duration in Hindi Read Aloud Speech
Faculty: Sumeet Agarwal Abstract Our study investigates the impact of linguistic complexity and planning on word durations in Hindi read aloud speech. Reading aloud involves both comprehension and production processes,…
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Locality and expectation effects in Hindi preverbal constituent ordering
Faculty: Sumeet Agarwal Abstract We investigate the relative impact of two influential theories of language comprehension, viz., Dependency Locality Theory (Gibson, 2000; DLT) and Surprisal Theory (Hale, 2001; Levy, 2008),…
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Psychophysiological impact of spinal cord injury: Depression, coping and heart rate variability.
Faculty: Varsha Singh Abstract We examined the association of post-injury heart rate variability (HRV), coping with injury (fighting-acceptance), and depression symptoms in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). Participants were…
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Surprisal and Interference Effects of Case Markers in Hindi Word Order
Faculty: Sumeet Agarwal Abstract Based on the Production-Distribution-Comprehension (PDC) account of language processing, we formulate two distinct hypotheses about case marking, word order choices and processing in Hindi. Our first…
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Experimental evidence of the effect of financial incentives and detection on dishonesty
Faculty: Varsha Singh Abstract We revisit two fundamental motivations of dishonesty: financial incentives and probability of detection. We use an ability-based real effort task in which participants who are college…