Research

• 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…

  August 22, 2022

• 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…

  August 22, 2022

• 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…

  August 22, 2022

• 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…

  August 22, 2022

• 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,…

  April 29, 2022

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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),…

  April 10, 2022

• 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…

  March 31, 2022

• 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…

  February 25, 2022

• 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…

  February 18, 2022

• What determines the order of verbal dependents in Hindi? Effects of efficiency in comprehension and production.

  Faculty: Samar Husain Abstract Word order flexibility is one of the distinctive features of SOV languages. In this work, we investigate whether the order and relative distance of preverbal dependents…

  February 9, 2022