Samar Husain

Associate Professor

Linguistics

CV Summary:

Samar Husain is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Delhi. He teaches courses to undergraduates and postgraduates in the areas of linguistics, cognitive science, statistics, and psycholinguistics. He is interested in how humans comprehend and produce language. His research group investigates sentence comprehension and production (with a special focus on South-Asian languages) using behavioral, corpus-based as well as computational methods.

Contact Information

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Hauz Khas,New Delhi-110016
Tel:+91-11-2659 7319(O)
samar[at]hss.iitd.ac.in

Research Areas

Broad research interests: human sentence comprehension, human sentence production, writing scripts.

Publications

Recent publications (2023 -- 2025)

Revisiting processing complexity of nested and cross-serial dependencies. Himanshu Yadav, Stefan Frank, Richard Futrell and Samar Husain. Glossa Psycholinguistics. 2024.
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]
Dependency Locality Influences Word Order During Production in SOV Languages: Evidence from Hindi. Mudafia Zafar and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 45. 2023. [pdf]
Preverbal syntactic complexity leads to local coherence effects. Sakshi Bhatia and Samar Husain. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 2023. [pdf]
Investigating Limits to Processing Variability in SOV Languages. Apurva and Samar Husain. In P. Chandra (ed) Variation in South Asian Languages: From Macro to Micro-differences. Springer Nature. 2023. [pdf]

For a complete list, see -- https://web.iitd.ac.in/~samar/publications.html