I am a PhD student at the Grammar and Variation Lab, University of Rochester. I am interested in working on Indo-Aryan languages spoken in various parts of India. I am currently looking at Discourse Particles and Definiteness in Hindi.
Research interests: Interdisciplinary topics of psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, cognitive science, and computational linguistics.
NEWS
**Presentation**: I will be presenting my work "Revisiting (in)definiteness in Hindi" at LSA 2026 [click here]
**Presentation**: I will be presenting my work "Multifunctionality of Discourse Particle na in Hindi" at DiPSAL 2025 [click here]
**New Publication**: Pareek, B., Zafar, M., Hooda, M., Yadav, K., Vaidya, A., & Husain, S. (2025). IIT Delhi Dialogue Corpus: A Quantitative Analysis of a Spoken Corpus of Hindi. Lang Resources & Evaluation (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-025-09867-8 [here]
Background
MSc (Master’s in Science)
Cognitive Science
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India
B.Tech (Bachelors in Technology)
Computer Science & Engineering
SRM University, Delhi NCR, Sonepat, Haryana, Delhi, India