Working papers
- The influence of syntactic priming on syntactic prediction in SOV languages. Md. Wasim Odud and Samar Husain. 2025. [arXiv]
Recent journal/conference publications (2024 -- 2026)
- The Role of Orthographic, Lexical, and Syntactic Factors During Reading -- The Case of Hindi and Urdu. Samar Husain, Arafat Ahsan, Narayanan Srinivasan, and Shravan Vasishth. In Heather Winskel and Hye K. Pae (Eds.) Handbook of Nonlinear Writing Systems. 2026. Springer Nature. (to appear)
- IIT Delhi Dialogue Corpus: A Quantitative Analysis of a Spoken Corpus of Hindi. Benu Pareek, Mudafia Zafar, Meghna Hooda, Karan Yadav, Ashwini Vaidya and Samar Husain. Language Resources and Evaluation. 2025. [pdf]
- Gender Effects on Non-Gendered Pronouns in Hindi and Mandarin Chinese. Kumiko Fukumura, Shi Zhang, Sakshi Bhatia and Samar Husain. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 2025. [pdf]
- Leveraging Prediction to Investigate the Mental Lexicon: Evidence from an Agglutinating Language. Nayana Raj and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 47. 2025. [pdf]
- Interaction of language-specific and cross-linguistic strategies during agreement computation - Evidence from Hindi. Pranab Bagartti and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 47. 2025. [pdf]
- The effect of similarity-based interference on bottom-up and top-down processing in verb-final languages: Evidence from Hindi. Samar Husain, Apurva, Ishita Arun and Himanshu Yadav. Journal of Memory and Language. 2025. [pdf] [data/code]
- Revisiting processing complexity of nested and cross-serial dependencies. Himanshu Yadav, Stefan Frank, Richard Futrell and Samar Husain. Glossa Psycholinguistics. 2025. [pdf]
- Do working memory constraints influence prediction in verb-final languages? Himanshu Yadav, Apurva and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM). 2024. [pdf]
- Do speakers minimize dependency length during naturalistic dialogue? Meghna Hooda, Mudafia Zafar and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL). 2024. [pdf]
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[All conference publications]
Recent peer-reviewed abstracts (2024 -- 2026)
- Cross-linguistic Issues in the Processing of Morphological Complexity. Nayana Raj, Suvrojit Nath and Samar Husain. In South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL). CU Boulder. 2025
- Similarity based interference during agreement production in Hindi. Pranab Bagartti and Samar Husain. In South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL). CU Boulder. 2025
- Predicting Hesitations: A Corpus-based Study of uh and um in Hindi Spontaneous Speech. Eashani Sharma, Ishita Arun and Samar Husain. In South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL). CU Boulder. 2025
- Eyes do not lie: Testing whether Eye-tracking can be used to detect Mind-Wandering and Mind-Blanking. Naman Piyasi, Sumeet Agarwal, Samar Husain and Sumitash Jana. In Annual Conference of Cognitive Science (ACCS). CBCS. Winner of the Prof. Chandrasekhar Pammi Award for best oral presentation.
- Syntactic Expectations in Bengali: Probing Filler-Gap Dependencies Using BERT. Pallab Basu and Samar Husain. In Annual Conference of Cognitive Science (ACCS). CBCS. 2025
- The Temporal Dynamics of Visual Word Recognition. Nayana Raj, Suvrojit Nath and Samar Husain. In Annual Conference of Cognitive Science (ACCS). CBCS. 2025. Winner of the Prof. Chandrasekhar Pammi Award for best oral presentation.
- Cross-linguistic Differences in Morphological Priming across Morphologically Complex Languages: Evidence from Malayalam and Bangla. Nayana Raj, Suvrojit Nath and Samar Husain. In Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL). UZH. 2025
- Investigating the effect of prediction in a morphologically complex language: Evidence from Malayalam. Nayana Raj and Samar Husain. In South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL). IIT Bombay. 2024.
- How Do Children Acquire Plural Morphology? An Investigation in Marathi. Gayatri Oke, Samar Husain and Vaijayanthi Sarma. In South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL). IIT Bombay. 2024.
- Agreement attraction in Hindi Production with Nouns differing by two features. Pranab Bagartti and Samar Husain. In South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL). IIT Bombay. 2024.
- The effect of prediction in a morphologically complex language: Evidence from Malayalam. Nayana Raj and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL). 2024.
- Investigating the effect of morphology and predictive processing in Malayalam. Nayana Raj and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the AMLaP 2024 - Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing. 2024.
- The role of language-specific and universal constraints on agreement processing in Hindi production. Pranab Bagartti and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL). 2024.
- Does the number of noun feature mismatch impact Hindi agreement production errors? Pranab Bagartti and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the AMLaP 2024 - Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing. 2024.
- The role of language-specific and cross-linguistic constraints during Hindi agreement production. Pranab Bagartti and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the AMLaP 2024 - Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing. 2024.
- The Role of Locality and Formulation Ease during Sentence Production. Mudafia Zafar and Samar Husain. In 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Michigan. 2024. Winner of the Gibson-Fedorenko 2024 HSP young scholar's award.
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