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Bhuvana Narasimhan is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Director of the Language, Development & Cognition Lab. She is also a Fellow of the Institute of Cognitive Science. Her research focuses on semantics-pragmatics, first language acquisition, and the crosslinguistic study of language-cognition interactions, with a particular emphasis on Hindi and Tamil. Narasimhan holds a PhD in Linguistics from Boston University (1998) and has conducted postdoctoral research at Bell Labs (Hindi text-to-speech synthesis) and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Netherlands).
Her work includes corpus-based and experimental studies on child language development, verb semantics, and information structure. Key contributions include longitudinal corpora of caregiver-child interactions in Hindi and Tamil, and edited volumes on event encoding and information structure. Recent research explores ergative case marking in Hindi, differential object marking in Tamil, and computational models of language acquisition.
Narasimhan has contributed to special journal issues on topics such as 'Embodied Cognition and Language' and 'The Acquisition of Information Structure.' Her awards include Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute and her current role as Institute of Cognitive Science Fellow.
Her lab focuses on interdisciplinary projects combining linguistic theory, experimental methods, and computational modeling. Ongoing research investigates crosslinguistic patterns in motion events, prosodic cues in child language, and cognitive factors shaping syntactic choices.
