Dr. Kamal Kumar Choudhary

Personal Information

 Name: Dr. Kamal Kumar Choudhary
 Designation: Associate Professor (Linguistics)
 Contact Number: 01881-242172
 Email:kamal@iitrpr.ac.in
 Address: Room No: 239-E, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Nangal Road, Rupnagar, Punjab, Pincode-140001
 Language and Cognition Lab: https://sites.google.com/site/iitrprlcl/

Areas Of Research

  • Psycho/Neurolinguistics
  • Language and Cognition
  • Neurocognition/ Neuroscience of Language comprehension

Short Biography

Dr. Kamal Kumar Choudhary is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. Dr. Choudhary completed his Ph.D. from Max Planck Institute of Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig, Germany/ University of Leipzig, Germany. Before joining IIT Ropar, he worked as a visiting faculty at the Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad, India. Dr. Choudhary is a linguist and cognitive scientist and works in the area of the neurophysiology of language comprehension. Currently, his research focuses on ergative languages. To know more about his research and project activities, visit the webpage of Language and Cognition Lab

Education

Ph.D. (Linguistics), Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany/ 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

Research

Journal

  1. Sauppe S, Choudhary KK, Giroud N, Blasi DE, Norcliffe E, Bhattamishra S, Gulati M, Bornkessel-Schlesewsky I, Meyer M &  Bickel B. (2021) Neural signatures of syntactic variation in speech planning. PLoS Biol 19(1): e3001038. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001038
  2. Bickel B, Witzlack-Makarevich A, Choudhary KK, Schlesewsky M, Bornkessel-Schlesewsky I (2015) The Neurophysiology of Language Processing Shapes the Evolution of Grammar: Evidence from Case Marking. PLoS ONE 10(8): e0132819.
  3. 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.
  4. 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).
  5. 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.
  6. 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.


Conference Presentations

  1. Bhattamishra S., Choudhary K.K. (2019) Interaction of case and animacy during agreement processing in Hindi: An ERP study  presented at Cross-linguistic perspectives on processing and learning (X-PPL 2019) conference, Zurich, Switzerland, November 4-5, 2019
  2. Bhattamishra S., Muralikrishnan R., Choudhary K.K. (2019) The processing of natural and grammatical gender in Hindi: An ERP study   poster presented at 25th Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing(AMLaP) conference, Moscow, Russia, September 6-8, 2019
  3. Sauppe S., Choudhary K.K., Giroud N., Balsi, D.E., Bhattamishra S., Gulati M., Egurtzegi A., Bornkessel-Schlesewsky I., Meyer M., Bickel B. 2019. Partial Overlap of syntactic configurations between sentences affects oscillatory activity during sentence planning in the brain. Paper presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2019). Leipzig University. Germany. August 21-24, 2019.
  4. Egurtzegi A., Sauppe S., Blasi D., Choudhary K.K., Giroud N., Jing Y., Bhattamishra S., Gulati M., Bornkessel-Schlesewsky I., Laka I., Meyer M., Bickel B. 2019. Paper presented at the 13th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT 2019). University of Pavia, Italy. September 4-6, 2019.
  5. Sauppe S., Choudhary K.K. , Giroud N., Blasi D.E., Bhattamishra S. , Gulati M. ,Egurtzegi A.M., Meyer M.,Bornkessel-Schlesewsky I. & Bickel B. (2019) EEG alpha power desynchronization during sentence planning is linked to partial overlap in syntactic configurations  poster presented at 32nd Annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing held at University of Colorado, Boulder from 29-31 March, 2019.
  6. Egurtzegi A.M., Sauppe S., Blasi D.E., Choudhary K.K. , Jing Y., Giroud N.,  Bhattamishra S. , Gulati M. ,Bornkessel-Schlesewsky I., Laka I. ,Meyer M. & Bickel B. (2019) The agent preference in sentence planning is modulated by case-marking: Eye-tracking evidence from Hindi, Basque and Swiss German poster presented at 32nd Annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing held at University of Colorado, Boulder from 29-31 March, 2019.
  7.  Bhattamishra, S, Gulati, M, Kumar N, Kamal Kumar Choudhary (2018).  Dynamics of Subject –Object gender agreement: A cross Linguistic ERP study.  AMLaP ASIA, University of Hyderabad, Feb 1-3, 2018.
  8. Gulati, M. & Choudhary, K.K (2107),  Processing across Agreement Types: Neurophysiological Evidence from Punjabi presented at the 38th Annual conference of Linguistic Society of Nepal (38th LSN - 2017) in Kathmandu,  November 26-27, 2017.
  9. Gulati, M. & Choudhary, K.K (2107) Brain Potentials Elicited by Case-Aspect Conflict: Insights from Punjabi. Poster presented at Annual Conference of Cognitive Science, at UoH, October 5-7, 2017.
  10. Sauppe S, Choudhary, K. K, Bhattamishra, S, Gulati, M, Meyer, M and Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I. (2017). The formulation of ergatives requires increased planning effort in Hindi: Eye tracking evidence for a “subject preference” in sentence production. 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, 10 – 13 September 2017, University of Zurich, Switzerland
  11. Bhattamishra, S. & Choudhary, K.K. (2016). Electrophysiology of Gender Agreement: Evidence form subject and object-verb agreement in Hindi. Paper presented at 3rd Annual Conference of the Association for Cognitive Science, India, IIT Gandhinagar, India.
  12. Bhattamishra, S. & Choudhary, K.K. (2016). Computation of syntactic information in the brain. Poster presented at Advances in Mathematical & Computational Biology, IIT Ropar, India.
  13. Khera.G, Lachmann.T, Choudhary. K. K. (2015). Event related potentials: A comparison between dyslexia and age matched controls. NACIACP-15th Conference, Gandhinagar, 6-8 Feb 2015.
  14. Kumar, N & Choudhary, K. K (2014). A corpus-based analysis of accusative case (ko) in Hindi. Paper presented at the 11th International Conference of South Asian Languages and Literatures (ICOSAL-11), 23-25th January 2014, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
  15. Kumar, N & Choudhary, K. K (2013). A corpus-based analysis of animacy in Hindi .  Paper presented at the 35th Annual & 1st International Conference of Linguistic Society of India, 27-29th November 2013, CIIL Mysore.
  16. Wang, L, Schlesewsky, M, Choudhary, K. K & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I (2013).  Actor-Undergoer Asymmetry in Learning Case Marking Strategies. Poster presented at the 5th Annual Neurobiology of Language Conference, November 6-8, 2013, San Diego, California.
  17. Choudhary, K. K, Schlesewsky, M, Bickel, B, & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I (2010). An Actor-Preference in a split-ergative language: Electrophysiological evidence from Hindi. Poster presented at Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, NYU, New York 16-20 March, 2010.
  18. Choudhary, K. K, Schlesewsky, M, Bickel, B, & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I (2009). Feature matching across clause-boundaries: The processing of long distance agreement in Hindi. Poster presented at Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of California, Davis, 26-28 March, 2009.
  19. Choudhary, K. K, Schlesewsky, M, Roehm, D & Bornkessel, I (2007). The role of animacy in the processing of ergative constructions: Evidence from Hindi. Poster Presented at  AMLaP, Turku, Finland, 24-27August,2007.
  20. Bornkessel, I, Choudhary, K. K, Roehm, D & Schlesewsky, M (2007).  The neurocognition of ergativity: Electrophysiological evidence from Hindi.  Poster presented at Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing La Jolla, California, 29-31 March, 2007.
  21. Choudhary, K. K, Schlesewsky, M, Roehm, D & Bornkessel, I(2006).   Neurocognition of Ergativity: evidence from Hindi. Paper presented at 28th All India Conference of Linguistics, Varanasi, 2 - 4 November, 2006.
  22. Bhattacharya, T, Choudhary, K. K, Thakur, A (2005).  Spelling Out DPs in Maithili. Paper presented in Sixth International Conference of South Asian Languages (ICOSAL-6), Hyderabad, 6 - 8  January, 2005
  23. Choudhary K. K, Raina, A, M & Thakur, A (2004). Focus Particles in Complex Predicate Structures: Cross linguistic Asymmetries. Paper presented at the 26th All India Conference of Linguists, Shillong, 29 Nov - 01 December, 2004
  24. Borgoyari, C & Choudhary, K, K (2003). Classifier and Word Order in Bodo Paper presented at 9th Himalayan Languages Symposium, Mysore, 9 - 12 December, 2003.
  25.  Choudhary, K. K (2002). Is Focus pre-verbal in Maithili? Paper presented at the 25th All India Conference of Linguistics, Kolkata, 26 - 28 November, 2002      


Invited Talks

1.    Language and Cognition: Electrophysiology of Language Comprehension,  Amity School of Languages, Amity University Gurugram,  June 23, 2020 (Online Talk, Webinar)

2.    Neurolinguistics: Language Processing in the Brain, Department of Linguistics, Central University of Kerala July 7, 2020. (Online talk, Webinar).

3.    Neurolinguistics: Scope and Challenges in India. Department of HSS, IIT Kharagpur, June 2, 2020 (online talk,  Webinar).

4.    Recent trends and challenges in human language and cognition. IIIT Raipur (11th Feb 2020)

5.    Cross-linguistic variation in the processing of case and agreement. Workshop on Approaches to Language Variation, 22-23 February, 2019, IIT Delhi

6.     Introduction to Neurolinguistics & Neurophysiology of language comprehension. BITS Pilani ( 25th August 2018)

7.    Current trends in Psycholinguistics. Workshop on Experimental and Empirical Methods in Linguistics. IIT BHU, Varanasi (4-11th June 2018)

8.    Language Across the Mind and Brain: Theoretical and Experimental Progresses in Psycho/Neurolinguistics. Workshop on Language, Mind and Brain. Department of HSS, IIT Patna, 19-20 August 2017.

9.    Current trends in Neurolinguistics. Workshop on Experimental and Empirical Methods in Linguistics.  HSS, IIT Delhi (9-15th July 2017)

10. Universal Mechanism of Language Comprehension: Evidence from Indian Languages. 3rd International Conference on Cognition, Brain and Computation at IIT Gandhinagar, 5-7 December 2015.

11. Verbal Morphology in Maithili (Regional Symposium on Natural Language Processing (regICON-2015) at IIT (BHU) Varanasi, 21st-22nd March 2015.

12. Language in the brain (Ninth Students’ Conference of Linguistics in India, IIT Delhi, 14th-15th March 2015).

13. Natural Language Processing (Worksop/ Training programme on natural Language Processing at the Department of Punjabi, Punjab University Chandigarh. Organised by CIIL Mysore from 15th -21st January 2014).

14. Ambiguity resolution: Computational and Psycholinguistic perspectives (Workshop on Language, Cognition and Computation @ International Conference on Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration, 18-20 December 2013, VHNSN College, Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu.

15. Brain and Language (Class lecture, HUL234: Language and Communication) department of HSS, IIT Delhi, November 8, 2013.

16. The electrophysiology of language comprehension: some contemporary issues (International Symposium on Advances in Language-Cognition Research, 30th October 2013, Centre for Neural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Hyderabad.

17. Experimental approach to Case. The Faculty of Language: Current themes in Language Sciences workshop organised by the department of HSS, IIT Delhi, 29  to 30 March, 2013.

18. Bridging the Gap between theoretical and experimental Linguistics. Language faculty: Design and interfaces, workshop organised by the department of HSS, IIT Delhi, 11 to 12 Feb, 2013.

19. Incremental language processing: Electrophysiological evidence from Hindi.  CFILT, IIT Bombay ( 2nd May 2012).

20. Inflectional Morphology in Maithili. Lecture-cum-workshop on POS-Morph: Urdu-Hindi and Maithili, LDC-IL, CIIL Mysore (19th to 21st September 2011).

21. Processing case and word-order. National workshop On machine translation: from Lab to Users. CDAC Noida (20-21st July 2011)

22. The Role of case and word-order in incremental argument interpretation: Neurophysiological evidence from Hindi. Department of Linguistics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. 16th March 2010.

CV

Courses

UG Courses

HS503: Cognitive Processes ( together with Dr. Parwinder Singh)

HS503: Brain and Language

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