Papers

 

Publications

• Bengali children’s comprehension of linguistic disjunction: Access to the alternative. [under revision]

• Children’s derivation of scalar inference from or-sentences: Evidence from varying the degree of relevance. In Proceedings of the 49th Boston University conference on language development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [to appear]

 

Presentations

• Children’s derivation of scalar inference from or-sentences: Evidence from varying the degree of relevance. 49th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD-49), Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts. November 7-10. [Poster]

• Disjunction comprehension in preschool children: Does access to alternative help in implicature derivation? 40th Northwest Linguistics Conference (NWLC 2024), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, May 4-5, 2024. [Paper] [virtual]

• Disjunction comprehension in preschool children: Does access to alternative help in implicature derivation? 4th South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL), Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, December 8, 2023. [Paper]

• Pragmatic inference is as immediate as literal interpretation: Importance of context and communicative intent. CogLingDays2022, Belgium-Netherlands Cognitive Linguistics Association (BeNeCLA), Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands, December 8-9, 2022. [Paper]

• Reduction of context extension helps children compute implicature. 12th Annual Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD). Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, January 10-14, 2022. [Paper] [virtual]

• Phonetic accommodation in English loan-words in Bengali (with Auromita Mitra, Ananya Mondal, and Indranil Dutta). National Conference on Phonetics: theoretical underpinnings and research explorations. Department of Phonetics and Spoken English, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India, November 19-20. [Paper]

 

Invited talks

• Role of alternative and relevance in children’s comprehension of scalar implicature in or-sentences. Recursion Group. Language Acquisition Research Center. University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, January 23, 2025. [virtual]

• Pragmatic acquisition: Do children read between the lines? An orientation program on research in Linguistics. School of Language Sciences, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India, August 21-29, 2023.