Talks

Invited talks

Roy, Y. The delay in the acquisition of Bangla politeness. At Tom Roeper’s 711 Spring 2024: Language Acquisition from Theoretical (and experimental) Perspectives class. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. (presented online). February 2024.

Roy, Y. On the Acquisition of the Anaphoric Possessive DP: Insights from Bangla. Psycholinguistics Lab. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. July 2022. [slides]

2020 Roy, Y. Inside the world of children’s Bangla pronouns. Zoomdemic: A Pandemic Lecture Series for MA Linguistics. Centre for Linguistics. Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. April 2020.

Select refereed talks

Roy, Y. The delay in Bangla polite pronoun acquisition as evidence for a nominal periphery and peripheral features. The 2nd workshop on Charting Honorific and Addressee Morphosyntactic Processes. University of Gottingen. February 2024. [slides].

Roy, Y. A Merge-based account of reference resolution. The 10th International Conference on Formal Linguistics (ICFL-10). Tsinghua University, Beijing. October, 2023.

Roy, Y. On the acquisition of formal pronouns in Bangla. The 18th International Pragmatics Conference. Brussels. July 2023.

Bhattacharjee, N., & Roy, Y. On Bangla allocutive markers go and re. The South Asian Language Analysis Roundtable (SALA) 36, Madan Bhandari Memorial College, Kathmandu. November 2022.

Roy, Y. Reference in discourse: R-expressions as pronouns in Malayalam and Bangla, and beyond. The Interaction of Formal Means and Functional Categories in the Coding of Reference. Universidad de Sonora. Mexico. November 2022. [handout].

Roy, Y. Acquisition of Bangla pronouns and reflexives: What production in rich context tells us. The International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL) 2021 Conference. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. June 2021.

Roy, Y. On the context layer of Bangla pronouns. The (Formal) Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL), Ohio State University, Columbus. March 2020. [poster].

Roy, Y. What native speakers really know about their reflexives and pronouns: perusing Bangla and Malayalam. The International Symposium on Interfaces in Generative Linguistics. South China Normal University, Guangzhou. November 2019.

Roy, Y., & Sharma, V. Agreement in Gaddi: A distributed morphology approach. The International Conference of the Linguistics Society of India (ICOLSI) 41, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkanthak. October 2019.

Roy, Y. Mapping the variation in the anaphora licensing strategies of adult speakers of Bangla. The Dependency in Syntactic Covariance (DISCo) workshop. Universitat Leipzig, Leipzig. April 2019. [poster].

Roy, Y. Gaddi Case. Students’ Conference of Linguistics in India (SCONLI), Jadavpur University, Kolkata. January 2017. Nair, A & Roy, Y. The Phonological Distribution of Malayalam Dative Case. The International Conference of the Linguistics Society of India (ICOLSI) 37. Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. October 2015.