I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi, India. I am associated with the Cognitive Science program at IIT Delhi.
My research is situated in the areas of Linguistics and Cognitive Science. I am interested in how humans acquire, comprehend and produce language. I am also interested in exploring how insights from cognitive science can inform learning and pedagogy. My research group investigates these areas (with a special focus on South-Asian languages) using behavioral, corpus-based as well as computational methods.
To know more about my research group see here. To know more about my group's recent research work see here.
At IIT Delhi I teach courses to undergraduates and postgraduates in the areas of linguistics, cognitive science, statistics, and psycholinguistics; for more details see here.
News
- I will be giving keynote talks at this year's ACCS and SAFAL
- New Paper: The Role of Orthographic, Lexical, and Syntactic Factors During Reading: The Case of Hindi and Urdu. (More details)
- Multiple research abstracts from our lab accepted at X-PPL, ACCS, and SAFAL. (More details)
- Mudafia Zafar successfully defended her thesis titled "Planning Scope in Production: How Grammar Shapes Incrementality" on 24/07/2025; Congratulations Mudafia!!
- New Paper: IIT Delhi Dialogue Corpus: A Quantitative Analysis of a Spoken Corpus of Hindi. (More details)
- New Paper: Gender Effects on Non-Gendered Pronouns in Hindi and Mandarin Chinese. (More details)
- EEL 2025: The 3rd edition of the Workshop on Experimental and Empirical Methods in Linguistics will happen at IIT Kanpur from June 25-29, 2025. Application still open!!
- CogSci 2025: Nayana's and Pranab's research work accepted at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society; (More details)
- New Paper: The effect of similarity-based interference on bottom-up and top-down processing in verb-final languages: Evidence from Hindi. (More details)
Last updated: 28 October, 2025
