Occasionally, I like to write stuff, some of which gets published. You can download some of it here.

Science

Papers

 The quest for generalizations over consonants: Asymmetries between consonants and vowels are not the by-product of acoustic differences. [pdf] 

Juan Manuel Toro, Mohinish Shukla,  Marina Nespor & Ansgar Endress  (2008) Perception & Psychophysics, 70(8): 1515-1525.

Different phrasal prominence realizations in VO and OV languages? [pdf]

Marina Nespor, Mohinish Shukla, Ruben van de  Vijver, Cinzia Avesani, Hanna Schraudolf & Caterina Donati (2008)  Lingue e linguaggio, VII.2: 1-28.

An interaction between prosody and statistics in segmenting fluent speech. [SISSA preprint server - pdf]

        Mohinish Shukla, Marina Nespor & Jacques Mehler (2006) Cognitive Psychology, 54(1): 1-32

Language from a biological perspective.[pdf from the IAS website]

         Mohinish Shukla (2005) Journal of Biosciences, 30(1): 119-127

Book chapters

Perché solo gli esseri humani parlano? Controversie sui meccanismi di acquisizione del linguaggio. [In Italian pdf.]

Marina Nespor, Jacques Mehler, Mohinish Shukla, & Marcela Peña. (2008) In M. Piccolino (Ed.) Neuroscienze controverse. Bollati Boringhieri (pp 319-356).

 

 

Mechanisms of language acquisition: imaging and behavioral evidence.[final draft pdf]

Jacques Mehler, Judit Gervain, Ansgar D Endress & Mohinish Shukla (2007)  In: C. A. Nelson & M. Luciana (eds.) Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (2nd Edition). MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass.

 Why is language unique to humans?

Jacques Mehler, Marina Nespor, Mohinish Shukla & Marcela Peña (2006) In: R. Romo and M. Diamond (Eds.) Percept, decision, action: bridging the gaps. Novartis Foundation: London, UK. (pp 251-280)

Talks & posters

 Shukla, M., Gebhart, A.L., and Aslin, R. (2009, accepted) “Optical Imaging of multimodal sensory processing in infants.” Talk at the SRCD 2009 Biennial Meeting, Denver, USA. 

 

Shukla, M., and Nespor, M. (2008) “The vowel tier constrains statistical computations over the consonantal tier.” Poster presented at AMLaP, September 2008, Cambridge, UK.  

 

Nespor, M., Shukla, M., and van de Vijver, R. (2007) “Setting the head-complement parameter?” Talk presented at OCP 4, January 2007, Rhodes, Greece.
 

Shukla, M. (2006) “Prosody constrains distributional learning.” Talk presented at the Trieste Meeting on Language Acquisition, September 2006, Trieste, Italy.

 

Nespor, M., Mehler, J., Gervain, J, and Shukla, M. (2005) “Differential acquisition of lexicon and grammar.” Talk presented at the 5th GLOW in Asia conference, October 2005, Delhi, India.  

 

Shukla, M., Nespor, M., and Mehler, J. (2004) “Cross-linguistic interaction between prosody and statistics in segmenting fluent speech.” Poster presented at Symbols and Connections, October 2004, Venice, Italy.

 

Shukla, M. (2003) “Language as a biological object.” Talk presented at the Discussion Meeting on Genetic Determinism, December 2003, Pelling, India.

Short articles

Shukla, M. (2002) Dichotomies in the perception of speech. J. Biosci. 27(3), 189-190.

Shukla, M. (2001) Getting the beat. J. Biosci. 26(1), 6-7.

Shukla, M. (2000) Reprogramming the cortex. J. Biosci. 25(3), 211-212.

Shukla, M. (2000) Transfer of learning across the somatosensory cortex. J. Biosci. 25(1), 5-6.

Thesis

Prosodic constraints on statistical strategies in segmenting fluent speech

Popular science / science education

I occasionally write short pieces/ interviews with educators for the lovely Indian magazine, Mindfields. 

Shukla, M. (2008) One two many: The language of mathematics. Mindfields (1), 41-43.
 

Shukla, M. (2007) Lenny and the baby robots. Mindfields 1(2), 39-41.

Shukla, M. (2007) Why is a cow and other deliberations. Mindfields 1(1), 44-46.