I am interested in how humans comprehend and produce language. My research group investigates sentence comprehension and production (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.
News (2024)
June 2024: I gave a talk at IASNLP held at IIIT Hyderabad. Talk title: Neural language models as cognitive models. (Abstract)
HSP 2024:Mudafia won the Gibson-Fedorenko 2024 HSP young scholar's award for her talk "The Role of Locality and Formulation Ease during Sentence Production" at HSP2024. The prize honours 2 young scholar presentations and comes with a monetary award of $1000. She will be presented with the award at HSP2025.
New Paper: Do working memory constraints influence prediction in verb-final languages? (More details)
New Paper: Do speakers minimize dependency length during naturalistic dialogue? (More details)
HSP 2024:Mudafia Zafar's abstract titled "The Role of Locality and Formulation Ease during Sentence Production" accepted as podium presentation at HSP2024.
X-PPL 2024: I will be giving a keynote talk at the 2024 edition of X-PPL.
