Publications and Presentations

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

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, (to appear).

Narasimhan, B. and Dimroth, C. "The influence of discourse context on children’s use of word order." Linguistics Vanguard, 4:s1, 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., 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.

Dimroth, C. and Narasimhan, B. 2012. "Accessibility and topicality in children’s use of word order." Language Acquisition, 19:12, 312-323.

Kopecka, A. and Narasimhan, B. (Eds.). 2012. Put and Take Events: A crosslinguistic approach. Typological Studies in Language, John Benjamins Publishers.

Lai, V. T., Garrido Rodriguez, G., & Narasimhan, B. (2013). Thinking-for-speaking in early and late bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.

Advance online publication: doi:10.1017/S1366728913000151

Menn, L., Duffield, J., and Narasimhan, B. (in press). “Towards an experimental functionalist linguistics: Production.” In Bischoff, S.T. (Ed.), Functionalist Linguistics. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Narasimhan, B. (in press). “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.

Vaidya, A., Choi, J., Palmer, M., and Narasimhan, B. 2012. “Empty Argument Insertion in the Hindi PropBank.” Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation(LREC 2012), Istanbul, Turkey.

PRESENTATIONS

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, 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, 2017.

Del Toro, Chen, and Narasimhan. “Information structure in bilingual Spanish-English child speech." International Workshop on Language Production, San Diego, California, 2016.

Narasimhan, B. “Placement events in child language: Some crosslinguistic puzzles.” Invited talk at Semantics and the child: Workshop in honor of Melissa Bowerman, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, June 2012.

Narasimhan, B. “Information structure in first language acquisition.” Invited talk at Frontiers in Linguistics, Acquisition, and Multilingualism, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, May 2011.