BHUVANA NARASIMHAN Curriculum Vitae
CONTACT INFORMATION
Department of Linguistics Tel.: (303) 492-8456 Hellems 290, 295 UCB Fax: (303) 492-4416 University of Colorado, Boulder E-mail: [email protected] Boulder, CO 80309-0295.
EMPLOYMENT
2012-present Associate Professor Department of Linguistics University of Colorado Boulder
2018-2019 Interim Director Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences University of Colorado Boulder
2008-2012 Assistant Professor Department of Linguistics University of Colorado Boulder
2003-2007 Scientific staff member Language Acquisition group (Director: Wolfgang Klein) Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
1999-2003 Postdoctoral fellow Language Acquisition group (Director: Wolfgang Klein) Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
1998-1999 Postdoctoral fellow Language Modeling Research Department, Bell Laboratories. (Mentors: Richard Sproat and Chilin Shih)
EDUCATION
1998 Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics Boston University, Boston, MA, USA. Dissertation: Encoding Complex Events in Hindi and English Committee: Catherine O'Connor, Jean Berko Gleason, Ray Jackendoff.
1988-1990 M.A. coursework in English literature and linguistics University of Panama, Panama.
1988 B.A. (awarded in the first division) University of Delhi, India. Bhuvana Narasimhan, Curriculum Vitae - 2 -
Major: History and Political Science Minor: Hindi and English
1985-1988 Coursework in English literature and linguistics University of Bern, Switzerland.
AWARDS
Fall 2017 Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences (CARTSS) Faculty Award, University of Colorado Boulder.
Summer 2017 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Faculty Award, University of Colorado Boulder.
2014–2015 Gamm Interdisciplinary Course Award (with Eliana Colunga, Psychology and Neuroscience) University of Colorado, Boulder
2008 Institute for Cognitive Science, University of Colorado, Boulder (NSF Science of Learning Catalyst grant) funds awarded to Hiromi Sumiya, Eliana Colunga, Bhuvana Narasimhan: "Patterns of generalization in children's production of Japanese numeral classifiers: The role of semantics and input frequency"
Summer 2008 Visiting Research Fellowship Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands.
1999-2003 Fellowship grant for the promotion of scientific cooperation Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands.
Fall 1993, 1995-1997 Graduate Tuition Scholarships Boston University.
1995-1996 Edwin S. and Ruth M. White Scholarship The Humanities Foundation, Boston University.
Summer 1994 Scholarship to attend the First International Cognitive Science Institute, SUNY, Buffalo.
1991-92 Presidential University Teaching Fellowship Boston University.
1990-91 Presidential University Graduate Fellowship Boston University.
GRANT-FUNDED ACTIVITY
2018 Co-PI, Workshop on Variation in the Mechanisms of Human Language Processing; March 29-31, 2019, Boulder, CO (funded by the National Science Foundation). Principal Investigator: Albert Kim, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder. Bhuvana Narasimhan, Curriculum Vitae - 3 -
2018 P.I.: Spencer Foundation Small Grant Program: ‘“More is Up”: Investigating the Vertical Number Line in Preschoolers’
2016-present Consulting Investigator, “Crosslinguistic Acquisition of Sentence Structure in K’iche Maya, Hebrew, Japanese, Hindi, and English” (funded by the European Research Council); Principal Investigator: Ben Ambridge, University of Liverpool.
2008-2014 Consulting Investigator, “A Multi-Representational and Multi- Layered Treebank for Hindi/Urdu” (funded by the National Science Foundation). Principal Investigator: Martha Palmer, Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder. TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Ling 7800: Graduate Topics Courses, ‘Concepts and Categories, ‘Language and Cognition’ Ling 6560: Graduate Course, ‘Language Acquisition’ Ling 5300: Graduate Course, ‘Research in Psycholinguistics’ Ling 4100: Upper division undergraduate Topics course: ‘Language and Thought’, ‘Language and Embodiment’ Ling 4225: Upper division undergraduate course, ‘Interdisciplinary Research Methods in Child Language Acquisition’ Ling/Psyc 4220: Upper division undergraduate course, ‘Language and Mind’ Ling 3430: Upper-division undergraduate course, ‘Semantics’ Ling 2000: Lower-division undergraduate course, ‘Introduction to Linguistics’ LSA Summer Institute 2011: ‘Information structure in first language acquisition’
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2017-2018 Experimental research/Outreach: The influence of spatial language on children’s early mathematical skills in an afterschool enrichment program.
2016-present Experimental research: The crosslinguistic study of the acquisition of causative constructions in K’iche Maya, Hebrew, Japanese, Hindi, and English. Principal Investigator: Ben Ambridge, University of Liverpool.
2008-present Experimental research: The use of intonation and word order to mark information structure in adult and child speakers of English and Mandarin. Collaborative research with Angel Chan (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Jidong Chen (California State University, Fresno), and Laura de Ruiter (University of Manchester).
2008-2014 Experimental research: The influence of the linguistic encoding of motion in similarity judgments in Spanish-English bilinguals. Language, Development, and Cognition Lab, University of Colorado, Boulder. Bhuvana Narasimhan, Curriculum Vitae - 4 -
1999-present Corpus-based acquisition research: discourse-pragmatics, lexical semantics and verb-argument structure in children acquiring Hindi.
2008-2014 Computational corpus linguistics: Semantic role annotation for the project: ‘A Multi-Representational and Multi-Layered Treebank for Hindi/Urdu’ (funded by the National Science Foundation). Principal Investigator: Professor Martha Palmer, Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder
1999-2007 Elicited production studies: Lexical semantics in Dutch, Hindi and Tamil child and adult language; information structure and word order in German children and adults; crosslinguistic study of the influence of the linguistic encoding of motion on a nonlinguistic classification task in adults. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
1999-2007 Fieldwork: Creation and archiving of two longitudinal, spontaneous child language corpora in Hindi and Tamil (400 hours of audiovisual data) in collaboration with researchers in New Delhi and Hyderabad, India. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
2002-2007 Associated researcher, PIONIER Project: Case Crosslinguistically Investigation of the semantics and morphosyntax of case in Hindi. Principal Investigator: Professor Helen de Hoop, Department of Linguistics, Radboud University, Nijmegen
1998-1999 Hindi Text-to-Speech Synthesis: Investigation of Hindi orthography, phonetics, morphology; building Hindi phonetic and duration databases. Language Modeling Research Department, Bell Laboratories
1993-1994 Experimental project: Investigating the influence of linguistic and non- linguistic cues in the selection of spatial reference frames. Program in Applied Linguistics, Boston University
Fall, 1993 Experimental project: Assisted in experimental study of spatial framework effects in humans (funded by Office of Scientific Research, US Air Force) Principal Investigator: Professor David Bryant, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University
1992-93 Longitudinal corpus-based research: Investigated the use of speech acts in parent-child discourse: duties included the morphosyntactic coding of CHILDES database transcripts, conducting analyses using CLAN programs for the Child Language Project (funded by NICCHD). Principal Investigator: Professor Jean Berko Gleason, Department of Psychology, Boston University
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EDITED VOLUMES
Narasimhan, B., Imai, M., and Colunga, E. Special Issue on “Embodied Cognition and Language: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives.” Languages, 2019. Dimroth, C. and Narasimhan, B. Special Issue on “The acquisition of information structure." Linguistics Vanguard, 4:s1, 2018. Kopecka, A. and Narasimhan, B. (Eds.). Put and Take Events: A crosslinguistic approach. Typological Studies in Language, John Benjamins Publishers, 2012. Narasimhan, B., Eisenbeiss, S., and Brown, P., (Eds.). The linguistic encoding of multiple- participant events. Special issue of Linguistics, 45:3, 2007.
Kelly, A, Narasimhan, B., and Smits, R., (Eds.). Annual Report of the Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics. 2006.
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Ambridge, B., Doherty L., Maitreyee, R., Bannard, C., Soumitra, S., McCauley, S., Arnon, I., Zicherman, S., Bekman, D., Efrati, A., Berman, R., Narasimhan, B., Sharma, D., Bhaya Nair, R., Fukumura, K., Tatsumi, T., Campbell, S., Pye, C., Mateo, P., Can Pixabaj, S., Marroquín Pelíz, M., Julajuj Mendoza, M. (in prep). “The Crosslinguistic acquisition of sentence structure: Computational modeling and grammaticality judgments from adult and child speakers of English, Japanese, Hindi, Hebrew and K’iche’. Dimroth, C. and Narasimhan, B. "The acquisition of information structure." Linguistics Vanguard, 4:s1, 2018. Narasimhan, B. and Dimroth, C. "The influence of discourse context on children’s use of word order." Linguistics Vanguard, 4:s1, 2018. Narasimhan, B. Review of C.Everett “Linguistic Relativity: Evidence across Languages and Cognitive Domains.” Lingua, 215, 78-85, 2018. Montero Melis, G., Eisenbeiß, S., Narasimhan, B., Ibarretxe-Antuñano, I., Kita, S., Kopecka, A., Luepke, F., Nikitina, T, Tragel, I., Jaeger, T. F., and Bohnemeyer, J. “Satellite- vs. Verb-Framing Underpredicts Nonverbal Motion Categorization: Insights from a Large Language Sample and Simulations.” Cognitive Semantics, 3:1, 36–61, 2017. Narasimhan, B. “Multimodal cue competition in adults’ novel verb generalization.” Languages, 21:1, 2, 2017. Lai, V., Roderiguez, G.G., and Narasimhan, B. “Differences in thinking-for-speaking in early and late bilinguals.” Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 17:1, 139–152, 2014. Dimroth, C. and Narasimhan, B. "Accessibility and topicality in children’s use of word order." Language Acquisition, 19:12, 312-323, 2012. Narasimhan, B. and Gullberg, M. "The role of input frequency and semantic transparency in the acquisition of verb meaning: Evidence from placement verbs in Tamil and Dutch." Journal of Child Language, 38:3, 2011. Gullberg, M. and Narasimhan, B. "What gestures reveal about how semantic distinctions develop in Dutch children’s placement verbs." Cognitive Linguistics, 21:2, 2010. Narasimhan, B. and Dimroth, C. "Word order and information status in child language." Cognition, 107:1, 2008. Bhuvana Narasimhan, Curriculum Vitae - 6 -
Narasimhan, B., Eisenbeiss, S., and Brown, P. “‘Two’s company, more is a crowd’: The linguistic encoding of multiple-participant events.” Introduction to special issue of Linguistics, 45:3, 2007. Narasimhan, B. "Cutting, breaking and tearing verbs in Hindi and Tamil." Cognitive Linguistics, 18:2, 2007. Narasimhan, B. and Gullberg, M. "Perspective-shifts in event descriptions in Tamil child language." Journal of Child Language, 33:1, 2006. Narasimhan, B. “Splitting the notion of 'agent': Case-Marking in early child Hindi.” Journal of Child Language, 32:4, 2005. Narasimhan, B., Budwig, N., and Murty, L. "Argument Realization in Hindi Caregiver-Child Discourse." Journal of Pragmatics, 37:4, 2005. Narasimhan, B., Sproat, R., and Kiraz, G. "Schwa-deletion in Hindi Text-to-Speech Synthesis." International Journal of Speech Technology, 7, 2004. Narasimhan, B. “Motion Events and the Lexicon: The Case of Hindi.” Lingua, 113:2, 2003. Narasimhan, B. “A Lexical Semantic Explanation for ‘Quirky’ Case in Hindi.” Studia Linguistica, 52:1, 1998.
Narasimhan, B. and Gleason, J.Berko, Review of Hirsch-Pasek, K. & Golinkoff, R. “The Origins of Grammar: Evidence from Early Language Comprehension.” Applied Psycholinguistics, 19:3, 1998.
Ely, R., Gleason, J. Berko, Narasimhan, B., and McCabe, A. “Family Talk about Talk: Mothers lead the way.” Discourse Processes, 19:2, 1995.
Narasimhan, B., Review of D.H.Mellor (Ed.), “Ways of Communicating: The Darwin College Lectures.” Applied Psycholinguistics, 14:2, 1993.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Narasimhan, B. (in prep). The acquisition of placement events. In Pederson, E. and Bohnemeyer, J. (Eds.). The Expression of Space in Language, Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Narasimhan, B., Cheng, F., Davidson, P., Kan, P.F., and Wagner, M. “The Influence of Visual, Auditory, and Linguistic Cues On Children’s Novel Verb Generalization.” In Sengupta, G., Sircar, S., Raman, G., and Balusu, R. (Eds.), Perspectives on the Architecture and Acquisition of Syntax. Berlin: Springer Nature, 2017. Riyaz Ahmad Bhat, Rajesh Bhatt, Annahita Farudi, Prescott Klassen, Bhuvana Narasimhan, Martha Palmer, Owen Rambow, Dipti Misra Sharma, Ashwini Vaidya, Sri Ramagurumurthy Vishnu, and Fei Xia, 2014. The Hindi/Urdu Treebank Project, In Ide, N. and Pustejovsky, J., Handbook of Linguistics Annotation, Springer Press, 2017. Narasimhan, B. “Cognitive Linguistics.” In Bashir, E., Hock, H.H., and Subbarao, K.V. (Eds.), The Field of Linguistics: South Asia. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2016. Narasimhan, B., Duffield, J., and Kim, A. “Accessibility and linear order in phrasal conjuncts.” In van der Zee, E., Csúri, P., and Toivonen, I. (Eds.), Structures in the Mind: Essays on Language, Music, and Cognition in Honor of Ray Jackendoff. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015. Lai, V. and Narasimhan, B. “Verb representation and thinking-for-speaking effects in Spanish-English bilinguals.” In de Almeida, R. G. and Manouilidou, C. (Eds.), Verb Concepts: Cognitive Science Perspectives on Verb Representation and Processing. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Narasimhan, B. “Ergative case-marking in Hindi child-caregiver speech” In Stoll, S. and Bavin, E. (Eds.), The Acquisition of Ergative Structures. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishers, 2013. Bhuvana Narasimhan, Curriculum Vitae - 7 -
Menn, L., Duffield, J., and Narasimhan, B. “Towards an experimental functionalist linguistics: Production.” In Bischoff, S.T. (Ed.), Functionalist Approaches to Language. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2013. van Staden, M. and Narasimhan, B. "Granularity in the crosslinguistic encoding of motion and location." In Dimitrova-Vulchanova, M. and van der Zee, E. (Eds.), Motion encoding and spatial language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Narasimhan, B., Kopecka, A., Bowerman, M., Gullberg, M., and Majid, A. “’Putting’ and ‘Taking’ events: A crosslinguistic perspective.” In Kopecka, A. and Narasimhan, B. (Eds.), Put and Take Events: A crosslinguistic approach. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishers, 2012. Narasimhan, B. “Encoding placement events in Hindi and Tamil.” In Kopecka, A. and Narasimhan, B. (Eds.), Put and Take Events: A crosslinguistic approach. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishers, 2012. Dimroth, C. and Narasimhan, B. “The acquisition of information structure.” In Krifka, M. and Musan, R. (Eds.), The expression of information structure. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 2012. Slobin, D, Bowerman, M., Brown, P., Eisenbeiss, S., and Narasimhan, B. "Putting Things in Places: Developmental Consequences of Linguistic Typology." In Bohnemeyer, J., and Pederson, E. (Eds.), Event representation in language and cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Eisenbeiss, S, Narasimhan, B. and Voejkova, M. “Case in language acquisition.” In Malchukov, A. and Spencer, A. (Eds.), The Handbook of Case. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Narasimhan, B., and Brown, P. “Getting the INSIDE story: Learning to talk about containment in Tzeltal and Hindi.” In Mueller Gathercole, V.C. (Ed.), Routes to language: Studies in honor of Melissa Bowerman. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2008. de Hoop, H., and Narasimhan, B. "Ergative case-marking in Hindi." In de Hoop, H. and de Swart, P. (Eds.), Differential Subject Marking, Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2008. Budwig, N., Narasimhan, B., and Srivastava, S. “Interim solutions: The acquisition of early constructions in Hindi." In Clark, E. and Kelly, B. (Eds.), Constructions in acquisition. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications, 2006. de Hoop, H., and Narasimhan, B. "Differential case-marking in Hindi." In Amberber, M. and de Hoop, H. (Eds.), Competition and variation in natural languages: The case for case. Oxford: Elsevier, 2005. Narasimhan, B. "Biography: Veneeta Dayal." In Brown, K. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Ed. Oxford: Elsevier, 2005.
Narasimhan, B. "Biography: Alexandra Aikhenvald." In Brown, K. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Ed. Oxford: Elsevier, 2005.
Narasimhan, B., Bowerman, M., Brown, P., Eisenbeiss, S., and Slobin, S., “’Putting things in places’: Effekte linguisticher Typologie auf die Sprachentwicklung.” [“‘Putting things in places’: Developmental consequences of linguistic typology”], In Plehn, G. (Ed.), Max-Planck Gesellschaft Jahrbuch 2004. Göttingen: Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004.
Bernstein Ratner, N., Berko Gleason, J., and Narasimhan, B. “An introduction to psycholinguistics: What do language users know?” In Berko Gleason, J. and Bernstein Ratner, N. (Eds.), Psycholinguistics. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1997. Berko Gleason, J., Ely, R., Perlmann, R.Y., and Narasimhan, B. “Patterns of prohibitions in parent-child discourse.” In Slobin, D.I., Gerhardt, J., Kyratzis, A., and Guo, H. (Eds.), Social interaction, Social Context, and Language: Essays in honor of Susan Ervin-Tripp. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1996.
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CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, WORKING PAPERS
Chen, J. and Narasimhan, B. “Information Structure and Ordering Preferences in Child and Adult Speech in English.” In LaMendola, M., and Scott, J., (eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 2018. Narasimhan, B. Williamson-Lee, J., Adricula, N., Good, C., Goetz-Weiss, L., and Zagnoli, K. “Developmental changes in spatial semantic categories.” In LaMendola, M., and Scott, J., (eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 2018. de Ruiter, L., Narasimhan, B., Chen, J., and Lack, J. "Children’s use of prosody and word order to indicate information status in English phrasal conjuncts.” Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 3, 40:1-9, 2018. Vaidya A., Palmer, M., and Narasimhan, B. Semantic roles for nominal predicates: Building an annotation resource. The 9th workshop on Multi-word expressions, North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Atlanta, Georgia, 2013.
Vaidya, A., Choi, J., Palmer, M., and Narasimhan, B. “Empty Argument Insertion in the Hindi PropBank.” Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012), Istanbul, Turkey, 2012.
Vaidya, A., Choi, J., Palmer, M., and Narasimhan, B. “Analysis of the Hindi Proposition Bank using Dependency Structure.” Proceedings of ACL workshop on Linguistic Annotation (LAW'11), 21-29, Portland, Oregon, 2011.
Bhatia, A., Bhatt, R., Narasimhan, B., Palmer, M., Rambow, O., Sharma, D.M., Tepper, M., Vaidya, A., and Xia, F. "Empty categories in a Hindi Treebank.” The 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Valletta, Malta, May, 2010.
Palmer, M., Bhatt, R., Narasimhan, B., Rambow, O., Sharma, D.M., and Xia, F. "Hindi Syntax: Annotating Dependency, Lexical Predicate-Argument Structure, and Phrase Structure." The 7th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, Hyderabad, India, Dec 14-17, 2009.
Bhatt, R., Narasimhan B., Palmer M., Rambow O., Sharma D. M., & Xia F. “A Multi-Representational and Multi-Layered Treebank for Hindi/Urdu.” The Third Linguistic Annotation Workshop in conjunction with ACL/IJCNLP 2009. Dimroth, C. and Narasimhan, B. “The role of accessibility and topicality in children’s early use of word order.” Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development 2008. Bohnemeyer, J., Eisenbeiss, S., and Narasimhan, B. "Ways to go: Methodological considerations in Whorfian studies on motion events.” In Eissenbeiss, S. (Ed.), Essex Research Reports in Linguistics, 50, 2006. Srivastava, S., Budwig, N., and Narasimhan, B. "A case study of the development of verb usage in a three-year-old Hindi-speaking child: A developmental-functionalist approach." Online Journal of Idiographic Science, 2005. Bowerman, M., Brown, P., Eisenbeiss, S., Narasimhan, B., and Slobin, D. "Putting Things in Places: Developmental Consequences of Linguistic Typology." Online Proceedings of the 31st Child Language Research Forum, Stanford University, 2002. Shih, C., Moebius, B., and Narasimhan, B. “Contextual Effects on Consonant Voicing Profiles: A Crosslinguistic Study.” Proceedings of the XIVth International Conference of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, CA, 1999. Bhuvana Narasimhan, Curriculum Vitae - 9 -
Narasimhan, B., Di Tomaso V., and Verspoor, C.M. "Unaccusative or Unergative? Verbs of Manner of Motion." Quaderni del laboratorio di linguistica, 10, Scuola Normale Superiore, 1996.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Adricula, N., and Narasimhan, B. “'Understanding is understanding by seeing': Visual perception verbs in child language.” To be presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA. November 2019. Chen, J., Chan, A., Narasimhan, B., Yang, W., Oteef, M., Dimroth, C. “Information structure and word order in conjoined noun phrases in Mandarin Chinese: A cross-linguistic perspective”. Sixteenth International Pragmatics Conference, Hongkong, PRC, June 2019. Chen, J., Chan, A., Narasimhan, B., Yang, W. “Information Structure and Different Preferences for Word Order in Conjoined Noun Phrases in Child and Adult Speech of Mandarin Chinese. ” 31st American Psychological Science Annual Convention, Washington DC, May 2019. Narasimhan, B., Adricula, N., Ford, E., Quintana, S., Temple, L., Peterson, L., Lack, J., Ramos-Bierge, S., Williamson-Lee, J. “Vertical Space-Number Associations in Children.” Society for Research in Child Development Bienniel Meeting. Baltimore, MD, March 2019. Narasimhan, B., Adricula, N., Strother, M., Ford, E. “Directional Space-Number Mappings on the Vertical Axis.” Society for Research in Child Development Bienniel Meeting. Baltimore, MD, March 2019. de Ruiter, L., Narasimhan, B., Chen, J., and Lack, J. "Children’s use of prosody and word order to indicate information status in English phrasal conjuncts.” Linguistic Society of America Winter Meeting, Salt Lake CIty, Utah, January 2018. Chen, J. and Narasimhan, B. “Information Structure and Ordering Preferences in Child and Adult Speech in English.” Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA. November 2017. Narasimhan, B. Williamson-Lee, J., Adricula, N., Good, C., Goetz-Weiss, L., and Zagnoli, K. “Developmental changes in spatial semantic categories.” Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA. November 2017. Chen, J., Brown, P., and Narasimhan, B. “’Cutting’, ‘tearing’, and ‘breaking’ in Mandarin, Tzeltal, and Tamil child language.” Workshop on Meaning in flux: Connecting development, variation, and change, Yale University, New Haven Connecticut. October 2017. Chen, J., Brown, P., and Narasimhan, B. “A crosslinguistic study of semantic development in ‘cutting’, ‘tearing’, and ‘breaking’ categories.” Many Paths to Language Workshop, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. October 2017. Narasimhan, B. Adricula, N., and Williamson-Lee, J. “Semantic reorganization in the lexicon: Acquiring spatial prepositions in English”. International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Lyons, France, July 2017. Narasimhan, B., Cheng, F., Davidson, P., Kan, P.F., and Wagner, M. "Multimodal Cues in Verb Learning." Linguistic Society of America Winter Meeting, Austin, Texas, January 2017. Del Toro, Chen, J., and Narasimhan, B. “Information structure in bilingual Spanish-English child speech.” International Workshop on Language Production, San Diego, California, July 2016. Gullberg, M. and Narasimhan, B. “Development of verbal and gestural expressions of motion events: New insights from different linguistic environments and ages.” International Association for the Study of Child Language, Montreal, Canada, July, 2011. Narasimhan, B., Duffield, C.J., Dimroth, C., and Kim, A. “Competing motivations in ordering ‘old’ and ‘new’ information: A psycholinguistic account.” Conference on Competing Motivations, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, November, 2010. Bhuvana Narasimhan, Curriculum Vitae - 10 -
Dimroth, C. and Narasimhan, B. “Accessibility and topicality: How information structure influences children's early word order in different discourse contexts.” Workshop on Information Structure in Language Acquisition, Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Sprachwissenschaft, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, February, 2010. Sumiya, H., Narasimhan, B. and Colunga, E. “The effects of semantics and transparency on the early acquisition of Japanese numeral classifiers.” Society for Research in Child Development Conference, Denver, CO, April 2009. Narasimhan, B. and Dimroth, C. “Givenness, topicality, and discourse integration: how do they influence children’s early word order.” Society for Research in Child Development Conference, Denver, CO, April 2009. Narasimhan, B. and Dimroth, C. “The role of accessibility and topicality in children’s early use of word order.” Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, November 2008. Lai, V. and Narasimhan, B. “Verb representation and thinking-for-speaking effects in Spanish-English bilinguals.” Conference on Verb Concepts: Cognitive Science Perspectives on Verb Representation and Processing, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, October 2008. Dimroth, C. and Narasimhan, B. “Do types of givenness influence children’s use of word order?” Poster presented at the International Association for the Study of Child Language Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2008. Kopecka, A., Bowerman, M., Gullberg, M., Majid, A., and Narasimhan, B. “The semantic categorization of 'putting' and 'taking' events: A cross-linguistic perspective.” Conference on Language, Communication and Cognition, Brighton, UK, August 2008. Gullberg, M. and Narasimhan, B. “How children learn to gesture about placement in Dutch: The role of verb meanings.” International Society for Gesture Studies Conference: Integrating gestures, Evanston, IL, June 2007. Chen, A. & Narasimhan, B. “WH-question constructions in Dutch: the role of intonation and information structure.” Poster presented at the International Conference on Construction Grammar, Tokyo, September 2006. Narasimhan, B., Kopecka, A., and Özyürek, A. “Crosslinguistic variation in motion event encoding: do constructions play a role?” International Conference on Construction Grammar, Tokyo, September 2006. Bowerman, M., Majid, A., Gullberg, M. & Narasimhan, B. "The semantic categorization of placement events across languages," International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Seoul, July 2005. Narasimhan, B. and Gullberg, M. "Placement expressions in early child Tamil: The role of animacy and orientation." Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Conference, Atlanta, GA, April 2005. Srivastava, S., Budwig, N., and Narasimhan, B. "A case study of the development of verb usage in a three-year-old Hindi-speaking child: A developmental-functionalist approach." Society for Research in Child Development Conference, Atlanta, GA, April 2005. Narasimhan, B. and Gullberg, M. "Encoding spatial perspectives on events in Tamil child language." Linguistic Society of America Winter Meeting, Oakland, CA, January 2005. Narasimhan, B. “Agency and case-marking in early child Hindi.” South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, State University of New York, Stony Brook, November 2004. Narasimhan, B. and Gullberg, M. " Lexical choice in encoding spatial perspectives on events in Tamil child language." South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, State University of New York, Stony Brook, November, 2004. Bohnemeyer, J., Eisenbeiss, S., and Narasimhan, B. "Manner and path in non-linguistic cognition." International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind, University of Portsmouth, July 2004. Bhuvana Narasimhan, Curriculum Vitae - 11 - de Hoop, H., and Narasimhan, B. "Differential subject-marking in Hindi." Workshop on Differential Subject Marking, Nijmegen, July 2004. Bowerman, M., Majid, A., Erkelen, M., Narasimhan, B., and Chen, C. "Learning how to encode events of 'cutting and breaking': A crosslinguistic study of semantic development." Child Language Research Forum, Stanford, CA, April 2004. Narasimhan, B. “Split-ergativity in Early Child Hindi.” Linguistic Society of America Winter Meeting, Boston, MA, January 2004. Narasimhan, B. “Agent Case-Marking in Hindi Child Language.” Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, November 2003. Narasimhan, B., and Budwig, N. "Argument Realization and Information Flow in Hindi Caregiver-Child Discourse." Society for Research in Child Development Conference, Tampa, FL, April 2003. Narasimhan, B., and Budwig, N. "Caregiver input, argument realization, and information flow in the acquisition of argument structure: The case of Hindi." Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics, Washington, D.C., February 2003. de Hoop, H., and Narasimhan, N. "Optimization of Case in Hindi." Linguistic Society of America Winter Meeting, Atlanta, GA, January 2003. Narasimhan, B., Budwig, N., and Murty, L. "Discourse-Pragmatic Constraints on Argument Realization in Early Child Hindi." Linguistic Society of America Winter Meeting, Atlanta, GA, January 2003. de Hoop, H., and Narasimhan, N. "Optimizing Case in Hindi." Sixth Workshop on Optimality Theory Syntax, University of Potsdam, October 2002. Narasimhan, B., and Cablitz, G. "Granularity in the Crosslinguistic Encoding of Motion and Location." Third Annual Workshop on Language and Space, University of Bielefeld, July 2002. Narasimhan, B., and Budwig, N. "Argument Realization in Early Child Hindi." Workshop on Variation in Form versus Variation in Meaning, University of Nijmegen, July 2002. de Hoop, H., and Narasimhan, N. "Optimization of Case in Hindi." Taalbulletin Dag Workshop, University of Groningen, June 2002. Brown, P., and Narasimhan, B. "Where are children going and where do they put things? Learning motion expressions in Tzeltal and Hindi." Netwerk Eerste Taalverwerving Workshop, University of Nijmegen, March 2002. Narasimhan, B., Sproat, R., and Kiraz, G. "Schwa-deletion in Hindi Text-to-Speech Synthesis." South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, University of Konstanz, October 2001. Narasimhan, B., and Budwig, N. "Argument Realization in Hindi Caregiver-Child Discourse." South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, University of Konstanz, October 2001. Narasimhan, B. and Budwig, N. "Verb Use in Hindi-speaking Children's Imperative Constructions." International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, July 2001. Budwig, N. and Narasimhan, B. "Input Variation and the Development of Argument Structure: An Examination of Hindi-Speaking Caregiver-Child Discourse." Society for Research in Child Development Conference, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, April 2001. Budwig, N. and Narasimhan, B. "Transitive and Intransitive Constructions in Hindi Child-Caregiver Discourse." Fifth Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 2000. Narasimhan, B., Budwig, N., and Chaudhary, N. "Imperative constructions in Hindi caregiver-child interactions." South Asian Language Analysis Roundtable, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, July 1999. Narasimhan, B. "Encoding Complex Events: Linking in Hindi and English." Texas Linguistics Society Conference: Perspectives on Argument Structure, March 1999. Bhuvana Narasimhan, Curriculum Vitae - 12 -
Narasimhan, B. "A Lexical Semantic Explanation for ‘Quirky’ Case in Hindi." Linguistic Society of America Winter Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 1995. Narasimhan, B. "Frames of Reference in the Use of Length, Width, and Height." Linguistic Society of America Winter Meeting, Boston, MA, January 1994. Bryant, D.J., Tversky, B., Lanca, M., and Narasimhan, B. "Mental spatial models guide search of observed spatial arrays." Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Washington DC, 1993. Gleason, J.Berko, Perlmann, R., and Narasimhan, B. "Please don't say no, say maybe: Variation in maternal prohibitions." American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Atlanta, GA, 1993.
INVITED TALKS
“Crosslinguistic and developmental perspectives on semantic categorization.” Keynote lecture at the First South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL). Potsdam, Germany, to be presented in September 2020.
“Placement events in child language: Some crosslinguistic puzzles.” Semantics and the child: Workshop in honor of Melissa Bowerman, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, June 2012. “Information structure in first language acquisition.” Frontiers in Linguistics, Acquisition, and Multilingualism, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, May 2011. “Competing motivations in ordering ‘new’ and ‘old’ information.” Institute of Cognitive Science Colloquium, University of Colorado, Boulder, April 2011. “Ergativity in early child Hindi.” Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, German, Workshop on the Acquisition of Ergativity, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, October 2010. “Information structure in child language.” Linguistics Colloquium Talk, California State University, Fresno, CA, April 2010. “Word order and information status in child and adult language.” Institute of Cognitive Science Colloquium, University of Colorado, Boulder, October 2009. “Constructing meaning in child language.” Construction of Meaning Workshop, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, April 2009. with S.Eisenbeiss and M.Voejkova. “The acquisition of case: An overview.” Surrey Morphology Meeting, University of Surrey, Surrey, UK, January 2007. with Gullberg, M. “Putting meaning into placement verbs: The development of semantic distinctions in Dutch children’s speech and gestures.” Lund University, Lund, Sweden, December 2006. with J.Bohnemeyer and S.Eisenbeiss, "Manner and path in non-linguistic cognition." Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, September, 2006. “Semantics and argument structure: A crosslinguistic and developmental perspective.” University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK, June 2005. with H.de Hoop, M.Lamers, A.Malchukov, and P.de Swart, “Modelling case and prominence: incremental and time-insensitive optimisation (motivation and perspectives).” Symposium on argument comprehension from a cross-linguistic perspective, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, German, April 2005 with P.Brown, “Learning to talk about containment in Hindi and Tzeltal child language.” Australian Aboriginal Child Language Acquisition Project (ACLA) Workshop. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, April 2005. Bhuvana Narasimhan, Curriculum Vitae - 13 - with M.Gullberg, "Animacy and orientation in Tamil children’s use of placement expressions." Workshop on developmental studies on spatial language and spatial cognition. Geneva, Switzerland, February 2005. with P.Brown, “Containment expressions in Hindi and Tzeltal child language.” Workshop on developmental studies on spatial language and spatial cognition. Geneva, Switzerland, February 2005. "Fundamental issues in first language acquisition." Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. September, 2004. with H. de Hoop, "Optimization of Case in Hindi." Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication Seminar, University of Amsterdam, September 2002. with M.Bowerman, P.Brown, S.Eisenbeiss, and D.Slobin, "Putting Things in Places: Developmental Consequences of Linguistic Typology." Invited plenary symposium, Child Language Research Forum, Stanford, CA, April 2002. with P.Brown, “Getting the INSIDE story: Learning to talk about containment in Tzeltal and Hindi.” Colloquium in honor of Melissa Bowerman, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, April 2002. Discussant of Bose Memorial Lecture by Noam Chomsky "Language and the rest of the world." University of Delhi, New Delhi, India, November 2001. "Encoding Complex Events in Hindi and English." Symposium on Language, Culture, Cognition, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India, December 2000. "Encoding Complex Events in Hindi and English." University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, March 2000. "Encoding Complex Events in Hindi and English." Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, February 1999.
ADVISING
Primary Ph.D thesis advisor
Current Norielle Adricula, Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder. Kathryn Conger, Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder. (co-advised by Albert Kim, Psychology and Neuroscience) Graduated 2016 Steven Duman, Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder. Current employment: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Basel, Switzerland. Graduated 2014 Ashwini Vaidya, Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder. (co-advisor with Martha Palmer, Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder. Current employment: Postdoctoral Fellow, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. Claire Bonial, Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder. (co-advisor with Martha Palmer, Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder). Current employment: Computational linguist, Army Research Lab, Washington D.C. Graduated 2013 Jill Duffield, Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder. Current employment: Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder. Bhuvana Narasimhan, Curriculum Vitae - 14 -
Graduated 2009 Vicky Lai, Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder. (co-advisor with Tim Curran, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder). Current employment: Assistant Professor, University of Arizona 2005-2007 Anke Jolink, Acquisition Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands.
Primary M.A. thesis advisor Graduated 2018 Zachary Rosen (co-advisor with Laura Michaelis), Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder. Graduated 2014 Mariah Hamang, Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder. Graduated 2013 Mohammad Haghighi, Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder. (co-advisor with Gail Ramsberger, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder) Graduated 2012 Jackson Tolins, Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder. (co-advisor with Eliana Colunga, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder) Christopher Hamill, Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder. (co-advisor with Albert Kim, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder)
Primary B.A. thesis advisor Graduated 2018 Jayne Williamson-Lee, Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder.
(Under)graduate Research Assistants in the Language, Development, and Cognition Lab
2018-2019 Eileen Ford, Kayla Kohake, Mara Strother. 2017-2018 Jonah Lack, Jayne Williamson-Lee, Laura Peterson, Laura Temple, Eileen Ford, Stephanie Quintana, Mara Strother, Stefanie Ramos-Bierge 2015–2016 Sean Michael Kelly, Caroline Good, Jayne Williamson, Jamison Ducey 2014–2015 Tatyana Sasynuik, Fanyin Cheng 2013-2015 Patricia Davidson 2013-2014 Maya Maldonado-Weinstein 2012-2013 Meghan Damour 2011-2012 Jamie Lowy, Natalie Gaines 2009-2011 Skye Smith
Internship mentoring 2007 Max Planck Institute internship: Jill Duffield, Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. Max Planck Institute internship: Vicky Lai, Department of LInguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. Bhuvana Narasimhan, Curriculum Vitae - 15 -
2005 Max Planck Institute internship: Annemarie van Limpt, English Department, Radboud University, The Netherlands. 2002 Max Planck Institute internship: Sanne Bongers, Philosophy Department, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
STUDENT AWARDS
Norielle Adricula Graduate Student Award, Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences
Jayne Williamson-Lee Undergraduate Student Award, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program
Steve Duman NSF Small Business Innovation and Research Grant Graduate Part-Time Instructor Teaching Excellence Awards Committee Jill Duffield Graduate Part-Time Instructor Teaching Excellence Awards Committee Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship Vicky Lai Institute for Cognitive Science Best Student Paper Award Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship Ashwini Vaidya German Academic Exchange Service Scholarship Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Editorial work Area editor for Language Acquisition for the journal Linguistics Vanguard (publisher: Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, Germany), 2014-2017.
Area editor for the journal Languages (publisher: MDPI, Basel Switzerland).
Review editor for the journal Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence :Language and Computation.
Project coordination: Coordinator, Project on “Information Structure in Language Acquisition” Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, 2006-2007. Committees: M.A. Comprehensive Exams Committee Ph.D. Prelim Committee Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences Steering Committee. Ph.D. Admissions Committee Linguistics Department Executive Committee M.A. Admissions Committee Arts & Sciences Council Curriculum Committee Arts & Sciences Council Representative Budget Advisory Committee Bhuvana Narasimhan, Curriculum Vitae - 16 -
Institute for Cognitive Science Assistant Professor Search Committee, Department of Linguistics Assistant Professor Search Committee Diversity Committee Human Research Committee CUNY Sentence Processing Conference Organizing Committee Organizing committee, Workshop on information structure, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Organizing committee, Almen meeting of the Max Planck Institute Organizing committee, Workshop on Three-Place Predicates, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Formal colloquium committee, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Abstract review committee, Boston University Conference on Language Development
Reviews: Linguistics: American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Cambridge University Press, Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, International Conference on Natural Language Processing, International Conference of the French Association for Cognitive Linguistics, John Benjamins, Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of South Asian Linguistics, Language, Language and Cognition, Language Sciences, Lingua, Linguistics, Oxford University Press, Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, Studies in Language Book Series (John Benjamins Publishers), Empirical Approaches to Language Typology Book Series (Mouton de Gruyter). Psycholinguistics: Applied Psycholinguistics, Cognition, Conference of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, International Journal of Behavioral Development, Journal of Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Learning and Development, National Science Foundation, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Science.
OTHER EXPERIENCE
Research Consultant Math Pathways and Pitfalls: Lessons for K-7 students. Research collaboration with Professor Guillermo Solano-Flores, Department of Education, University of Colorado, Boulder (2008).
Administrative coordinator Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists (PROMYS) Department of Mathematics, Boston University (NSF-funded project). Principal Investigator: Professor Glenn Stevens. (1994-1995).
Knowledge of languages Fluency in written and spoken Hindi. Fluency in spoken Tamil and some knowledge of written Tamil. Reading knowledge of German, Dutch, and Spanish.
Residence abroad Vientienne, Laos; Oslo, Norway; Budapest, Hungary; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Bern, Switzerland; Panama City, Panama; Boston, MA, USA; Murray Hill, NJ, USA; Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Boulder, CO, USA.