Talks
Invited talks
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. (online). February 2024. [slides]
On the Acquisition of the Anaphoric Possessive DP: Insights from Bangla. Psycholinguistics Lab. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. July 2022.
A view of the abysmal state of research scholars’ finances during the COVID-19 pandemic. Centre for Economic Studies and Planning (CESP), Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. October. (joint work with Alamu R and Somashree Das) [slides]
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. [talk video]
Select peer-reviewed talks
A case for language acquilearning. The South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL). Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Mumbai. December 2024. [poster]
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].
A Merge-based account of reference resolution. The 10th International Conference on Formal Linguistics (ICFL-10). Tsinghua University, Beijing. October, 2023. [email me for the handout]
On the acquisition of formal pronouns in Bangla. The 18th International Pragmatics Conference. Brussels. July 2023. [slides]
On Bangla allocutive markers go and re. The South Asian Language Analysis Roundtable (SALA) 36, Madan Bhandari Memorial College, Kathmandu. November 2022. (joint work with Nirnimesh Bhattacharjee). [handout]
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].
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. [poster]
On the context layer of Bangla pronouns. The (Formal) Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL), Ohio State University, Columbus. March 2020. [poster].
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. [slides]
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. (joint work with Vyom Sharma)
Licensing reflexives and pronouns in Spec DP: Probing what adults know. NASLILANSI. Jawaharlal Nehru University. August 2019. [slides]
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].
Gaddi Case. Students’ Conference of Linguistics in India (SCONLI), Jadavpur University, Kolkata. January 2017. (Joint work with Prativa Chakraborty)
The Phonological Distribution of Malayalam Dative Case. The International Conference of the Linguistics Society of India (ICOLSI) 37. Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. October 2015. (joint work with Anjali Nair)