Presentations

Talks and Posters

• Moving beyond forced-choice: A fresh perspective on children’s disjunction comprehension. (with Masoud Jasbi)
  • Poster at the 50th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD-50), Boston University. 2025. [Poster]
• Difficulty in accessing the scalar alternative: What does children’s spontaneous feedback reveal?
  • Poster at Sinn und Bedeutung 30 (SuB30), Goethe University, Frankfurt. 2025. [Poster]
  • Poster at the 11th Biennial Experimental Pragmatics Conference (XPRAG 2025), University of Cambridge, UK. 2025. [Poster]
  • Talk at the XPRAG Fest 2025 - Experiments on the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface, Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin. 2025. [Paper]
• Children’s derivation of scalar inference from or-sentences: Evidence from varying the degree of relevance.
  • Poster at the 49th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD-49), Boston University. 2024. [Poster]
• Disjunction comprehension in preschool children: Does access to alternative help in implicature derivation?
  • Talk at the 40th Northwest Linguistics Conference (NWLC 2024), University of Washington. 2024. [Paper] [online]
  • Talk at the 4th South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL), Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. 2023. [Paper]
• Pragmatic inference is as immediate as literal interpretation: Importance of context and communicative intent.
  • Talk at the CogLingDays2022, Belgium-Netherlands Cognitive Linguistics Association (BeNeCLA), Tilburg University, the Netherlands. 2022. [Paper]
• Reduction of context extension helps children compute implicature.
  • Talk at the 12th Annual Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD). Central European University, Budapest. 2022. [Paper] [online]
• Phonetic accommodation in English loan-words in Bengali. (with Auromita Mitra, Ananya Mondal, and Indranil Dutta)
  • Talk at the National Conference on Phonetics: theoretical underpinnings and research explorations. Department of Phonetics and Spoken English, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. 2019. [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. [online]

• 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.