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Assistant Professor
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Email: kamal[AT]iitrpr.ac.in




Biography

Dr. Kamal Kumar Choudhary is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Research Interests

  • Psycho/Neurolinguistics (Language processing, Neurocognition/Neurosceince of Language ,EEG).
  • Typology, Syntax, Cognitive Science, NLP.

Education

  • Ph. D (Linguistics) , University of Leipzig, Germany, 2010.
  • M. Phil (Linguistics),University of Delhi, India, 2005.
  • PG Diploma in English-Hindi Translation, University of Delhi, India, 2002.
  • M.A(Linguistics), University of Delhi, India, 2001.
  • B.A (Hons. In English ), LNM University Darbhanga, Bihar, India, 1998.

Work Experience

  • Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, 2011 - Present.
  • Visiting Faculty, CBCS, University of Allahabad, June 2010-May 2011.
  • Research Scientist, University of Marburg, Germany, June 2009-May 2010.
  • Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, May 2005 - May 2009.
  • Senior Project Associate, IIT Kanpur, India, August 2004 - April 2005.
  • Linguistic Editor, IIIT Hyderabad, January 2004 - June 2004.
  • Resource Person, CIIL Mysore, India, April 2002 - March 2003.

Selected Publications

1. Choudhary, K. K. (2011). Incremental argument interpretation in a split ergative language: Neurophysiological evidence from Hindi.(Vol. 127). MPI Series in Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.

2. Schlesewsky, M, Choudhary, K. K, & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I. ( 2010). Grammatical transitivity vs. interpretive distinctness: The case for a separation of two levels of representation that are often conflated. In Transitivity. Form, Meaning, Acquisition, and Processing, edited by Brandt, P. and Garcia and Garcia, M. Amsterdam: John Benjamins(Linguistics Today, 166).

3. Choudhary, K. K, Schlesewsky, M, Roehm, D & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I. ( 2009). N400 as a correlate of interpretively-relevant linguistic rules: Evidence from Hindi. Neuropsychologia, 47, 3012-3022.

4. Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I, Choudhary, K.K, Witzlack-Makarevich, A & Bickel, B. (2008): Bridging the gap between processing preferences and typological distributions: Initial evidence from the online comprehension of control constructions in Hindi. In Scales (Linguistische Arbeitsberichte 86), edited by Andrej Malchukov, and Marc Richards. Leipzig Institute for Linguistik.