Assistant Professor
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Biography
Dr. Somdev Kar is an assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. He completed his MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Hyderabad (India) in 2004. In 2005, he moved to the University of Tübingen in Germany to pursue doctoral research in Linguistics under the supervision of Prof. Hubert Truckenbrodt and received his doctoral degree in 2009. His doctoral research is in the area of Optimality Theory (Phonology) and Distributed Morphology and with a focus on the syllable structure of Bangla. Dr. Kar also worked on the phonology of a group of Tibeto-Burman languages of Sikkim as part of his post-doctoral research at CIIL, Mysore, India.
Research Interests
- Phonetics and Phonology (with special interest in Optimality Theory)
- Speech Processing
Education
- PhD, University of Tübingen, Germany, 2009
- MA, University of Hyderabad, India, 2004
- BA (Hons), University of Calcutta, India, 2002
Work Experience
- Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India, 2010 - Present
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Qatar University, Qatar, 2010
- Fellow, Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore, India, 2008 - 2010
- Scientific Employee (Researcher), Center for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, Germany, 2008
- Scientific Employee and Assistant, University of Tübingen, Germany, 2005 - 2008
Consultation
- Linguist (TTS-Quality Control), Acapela Group Sweden AB, Solna, Sweden, 2010
- Language Consultant (Bengali), Zi Corporation, Calgary, Canada, 2004-2005
Selected Publications
2. Kar, Somdev (2010). Review of Pingali, Sailaja (2009) 'Indian English'. Linguistlist, 21(2755), June 30, 2010, http://linguistlist.org/issues/21/21-2755.html.
3. Kar, Somdev (2010). Treatment of word-initial clusters in non-standard Bangla. Presented at the 9th International Conference on South Asian Languages (ICOSAL-9). Punjabi University, Patiala, India.
4. Kar, Somdev (2009). Gemination in Bangla: An optimality theoretic analysis. Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics, 1(2), 87-114.
5. Kar, Somdev (2009). Voicing Agreement in Optimality Theory: The case of Bangla word-medial clusters. Presented at the 31st All-India Conference of Linguists (Linguistics Society of India), University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India.