Yangchen Roy

I'm fascinated by how children learn language — how they build a full, working grammar out of sparse, messy input, and what that says about what's uniquely human in our capacity for language. My PhD looked at how children acquire pronouns and reflexives in Bangla and Malayalam; these days, as a postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, I study child language as part of the ERC Synergy Grant project "Realizing Leibniz's Dream". I like putting linguistics to work outside the seminar room too — teaching English, designing language-learning games, and documenting under-resourced languages. I recently co-authored A Grammar of Gaddi (UCL Press). I trained as a linguist at Jawaharlal Nehru University and The English and Foreign Languages University Hyderabad.

Feel free to get in touch at yangchen.roy@hu-berlin.de.