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Abstract/Poster

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.
Word Order Induced Differential Verb Planning in Language Production: Evidence from Hindi. Mudafia Zafar and Samar Husain. In South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL). IIT Kanpur. 2023.
Different underlying mechanisms lead to agreement attraction in production- Evidence from Hindi. Pranab Bagartti and Samar Husain. In South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL). IIT Kanpur. 2023.
Introducing the Hindi Dialogue Corpus. Benu Pareek, Mudafia Zafar, Meghna Hooda, Ashwini Vaidya and Samar Husain. In South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL). IIT Kanpur. 2023.
Explaining Word Order Variation during Language Production as a Trade-Off between Communicative Efficiency and Planning Ease. Mudafia Zafar and Samar Husain. In Annual Conference of Cognitive Science (ACCS). IIT Kanpur. 2023.
Does Dependency Length Minimisation hold during Dialogue?. Meghna Hooda, Mudafia Zafar and Samar Husain. In Annual Conference of Cognitive Science (ACCS). IIT Kanpur. 2023.
Individual differences in predictive processing in a verb-final language. Himanshu Yadav and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), San Sebastian. 2023.
The effect of similarity-based interference in SOV languages -- Evidence from Hindi. Samar Husain, Apurva, Ishita Arun and Himanshu Yadav. In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), San Sebastian. 2023.
Nested versus crossed dependencies: Re-examining German and Dutch verb clusters. Himanshu Yadav, Stefan Frank, Richard Futrell and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the Human Sentence Processing. 2023.
Presence of a Listener modulates constituent ordering during production. Mudafia Zafar and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the AMLaP 2022 - Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing. 2022.
Influence of syntactic dependency on verb planning during production: Evidence from Hindi. Mudafia Zafar and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the AMLaP 2022 - Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing. 2022.
Word-order and center embedding led grammatical illusions in Hindi. Apurva and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the AMLaP 2022 - Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing. 2022.
Structural Priming Effect for Word Order Variation in Bengali. Wasim Odud and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the AMLaP 2022 - Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing. 2022.
Understanding nested versus crossed dependencies: The case of German and Dutch verb clusters. Himanshu Yadav, Stefan Frank, Richard Futrell and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the AMLaP 2022 - Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing. 2022.
Effect of Differential Case Marking on the Timing of Verb Retrieval during Sentence Production. Mudafia Zafar and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of California, Santa Cruz. 2022.
Does Case Marking influence the Timing of Verb Retrieval during Sentence Production? Mudafia Zafar and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the 5th Annual Conference of The Association of Cognitive Science, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India. 2022.
Dependency length minimization hypothesis revisited. Himanshu Yadav, Shubham Mittal and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), Potsdam, Germany. 2020.
Parsing errors in Hindi. Apurva and Samar Husain In Proceedings of the 1st South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL), Potsdam, Germany. 2020.
Anti-locality effects in Hindi suggest a shallow parsing strategy. Apurva and Samar Husain In Proceedings of the 1st South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL), Potsdam, Germany. 2020.
Limits to Syntactic Priming. Md. Wasim Odud and Samar Husain In Proceedings of the 1st South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL), Potsdam, Germany. 2020.
Can Reducing Encoding-Based Interference Improve Predictions During Sentence Processing? Ishita Arun and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the Sixth Annual conference of the Association for Cognitive Science in India (ACCS), Goa. 2019.
Local Coherence and Case-Marker Exchange Cause Parsing Errors in Hindi. Apurva and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the Sixth Annual conference of the Association for Cognitive Science in India (ACCS), Goa. 2019.
Referential Context Effects on Hindi/Urdu Learners of Arabic are not Stronger than Syntactic Cues during Online Comprehension: Evidence for Deep Parsing. Sari Hamoud and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the Sixth Annual conference of the Association for Cognitive Science in India (ACCS), Goa. 2019.
Cost of ungrammatical predictions during online comprehension. Apurva and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the Psycholinguistics in Iceland -- Parsing and Prediction (PIPP) conference, Reykjavik. 2019.
Prediction failure and local coherence in a head-final language. Sakshi Bhatia and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the Psycholinguistics in Iceland -- Parsing and Prediction (PIPP) conference, Reykjavik. 2019.
Cost of ungrammatical predictions during online sentence processing: evidence against surprisal. Apurva and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder. 2019.
Investigating Local Coherence Effects in Hindi. Sakshi Bhatia and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the 9th meeting of Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL-9), Portland. 2019.
Multilingual advanced learners of Arabic employ deep parsing during online comprehension: Evidence against Shallow Structure Hypothesis. Sari Hamoud and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the Neuroscience of Language Conference, NYU Abu Dhabi. 2019.
Processing Hindi Doubly Center-embedded Structures. Samar Husain and Sakshi Bhatia. In Proceedings of the 5th Annual Conference of The Association of Cognitive Science, IIT Guwahati, India. 2018.
(Not) Forgetting verbs in Hindi doubly center-embedded structures. Samar Husain and Sakshi Bhatia. In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), Berlin, Germany. 2018.
Working memory constraints override prediction in processing center embedded constructions. Apurva and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), Berlin, Germany. 2018.
How good is prediction in head-final languages? Apurva and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), Berlin, Germany. 2018.
Head directionality interacts with dependency length. Himanshu Yadav, Ashwini Vaidya and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), Berlin, Germany. 2018.
Prediction overrides syntactic priming: Evidence from Hindi. Samar Husain and Himanshu Yadav. In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), Berlin, Germany. 2018.
Investigating prediction processes in Hindi through Entropy, Surprisal and Ungrammaticality. Apurva and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of Bridging Research On Cognition And Speech (BROCAS), IIT Ropar, India 2018.
Processing right-extraposed relative clause in Hindi: Evidence for locality effect. Samar Husain and Himanshu Yadav. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference UC Davis USA. 2018. [abstract/poster]
A crosslinguistic corpus study of crossing dependencies using psycholinguistically motivated measures. Vishakha Shukla, Himanshu Yadav, Ashwini Vaidya and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference UC Davis USA. 2018. [abstract/poster]
Processing crossing dependencies in Hindi. Himanshu Yadav and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference UC Davis USA. 2018. [abstract/poster]
Forgetting effects due to Local Coherence in Hindi. Sakshi Bhatia and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference UC Davis USA. 2018. [poster]
Locality effect in a head final language: Evidence from Hindi. Samar Husain and Himanshu Yadav. In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing - Asia (AMLaP-Asia), University of Hyderabad, India. 2018.
Crosslinguistic comparison of crossing dependencies using psycholinguistically motivated measures. Vishakha Shukla, Himanshu Yadav, Ashwini Vaidya and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing - Asia (AMLaP-Asia), University of Hyderabad, India. 2018.
Role of prediction and memory constraints in processing crossing dependencies in Hindi. Himanshu Yadav and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing - Asia (AMLaP-Asia), University of Hyderabad, India. 2018.
Working-memory constraints influence prediction processes in Hindi. Apurva and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing - Asia (AMLaP-Asia), University of Hyderabad, India. 2018.
Forgetting effects in a head-final language: Evidence from Hindi. Samar Husain and Sakshi Bhatia. In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing - Asia (AMLaP-Asia), University of Hyderabad, India. 2018.
Handling non-projectivity in a dependency-to-phrase-structure conversion algorithm for Hindi. Himanshu Yadav, Ashwini Vaidya and Samar Husain. In 39th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India, IIT Patna. 2017.
What Do Hindi Native Speakers Predict? Investigating Verb Class, Verb Morphology and Word Order. Apurva and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the 38th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India, Guwahati, India. 2016. [slides]
Dependency resolution difficulty increases with distance in Persian separable complex predicates. Molood Sadat Safavi, Samar Husain, and Shravan Vasishth. In Proceedings of the 22nd AMLaP conference, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Bilbao, Spain. 2016. [poster]
Role of expectation and memory constraints in Hindi comprehension: An eyetracking corpus analysis. Arpit Agrawal, Sumeet Agarwal, and Samar Husain. 2nd Indian Workshop on Machine Learning (iWML), IIT Kanpur, India. 2016. [pdf | code]
Processing Hindi relative clauses: Evidence against expectation-based theories. Samar Husain and Shravan Vasishth. In Proceedings of the 29th CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. 2016.
Linear proximity effects in Hindi reciprocal resolution. Samar Husain and Dave Kush. In Proceedings of the 29th CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. 2016.
Dependency resolution difficulty increases with distance in Persian complex predicates: Evidence against the expectation-based account. Molood Sadat Safavi, Samar Husain, and Shravan Vasishth. In Proceedings of the 29th CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. 2016.
Locality and expectation in Persian separable complex predicates. Molood Sadat Safavi, Shravan Vasishth, and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. 2015. [poster]
The interaction of working memory and expectation-based processes in sentence comprehension. Shravan Vasishth and Samar Husain. In Technical report of IEICE. Thought and language 114(176), 113-114, 2014-08-05. 2014. [short-paper]
Reactivation effects interact with expectation strength. Samar Husain and Shravan Vasishth. In Proceedings of AMLaP Conference. Edinburgh. 2014. [abstract]| [poster]
Locality effects depend on processing load and expectation strength. Samar Husain, Shravan Vasishth and Narayanan Srinivasan. In Proceedings of AMLaP Conference. Marseille, France, 2013. [poster]
A classification of dependencies in the Hindi/Urdu treebank. Ashwini Vaidya and Samar Husain. Abstract presentation at UMass Workshop on South Asian Syntax and Semantics, Amherst. 2011. [pdf] [slides]