Publications

[selected publications]

Edited Volumes

• Narasimhan, B., Imai, M., and Colunga, E. 2019. Special Issue on “Embodied Cognition and Language: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives.” Languages,4(2).
• Dimroth, C. and Narasimhan, B. 2018. Special Issue on “The Acquisition of Information Structure." Linguistics Vanguard, 4:s1.
• Kopecka, A. and Narasimhan, B. (Eds.). 2012. Events of Putting and Taking: A Crosslinguistic Perspective. Typological Studies in Language, John Benjamins Publishers.
• Narasimhan, B., Eisenbeiss, S., and Brown, P., (Eds.). 2007. The linguistic encoding of multiple-participant events. Special issue of Linguistics, 45:3.

Journal Publications

• Narasimhan, B. and Dimroth, C. 2018. "The influence of discourse context on children’s use of word order." Linguistics Vanguard, 4:s1.
• Narasimhan, B. 2017. “Multimodal cue competition in adults’ novel verb generalization.” Languages, 21:1, 2. 
• Lai, V., Roderiguez, G.G., and Narasimhan, B. 2014. “Differences in thinking-for-speaking in early and late bilinguals.” Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 17:1, 139–152.
• Narasimhan, B. and Gullberg, M. 2011. "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.
• Narasimhan, B. and Dimroth, C. 2008. "Word order and information status in child language." Cognition, 107:1.
• Narasimhan, B. 2005. “Splitting the notion of 'agent': Case-Marking in early child Hindi.” Journal of Child Language, 32:4.
• Narasimhan, B., Budwig, N., and Murty, L. 2005. "Argument Realization in Hindi Caregiver-Child Discourse." Journal of Pragmatics, 37:4.

Book Chapters

• Narasimhan, B., Cheng, F., Davidson, P., Kan, P.F., and Wagner, M. 2017. “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.
• 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. 2017. The Hindi/Urdu Treebank Project, In Ide, N. and Pustejovsky, J., Handbook of Linguistics Annotation, Springer Press.
• Narasimhan, B., Duffield, J., and Kim, A. 2015. “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.
• Lai, V. and Narasimhan, B. 2015. “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.
• Narasimhan, B. 2013. “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.
• 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. 
• Narasimhan, B., Kopecka, A., Bowerman, M., Gullberg, M., and Majid, A. 2012. “'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.
• Narasimhan, B. 2012. “Putting and Taking in Tamil and Hindi.” In Kopecka, A. and Narasimhan, B. (Eds.), Put and Take Events: A crosslinguistic approach. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishers.
• Dimroth, C. and Narasimhan, B. 2012. “The acquisition of information structure.” In Krifka, M. and Musan, R. (Eds.), The expression of information structure. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
• Slobin, D, Bowerman, M., Brown, P., Eisenbeiss, S., and Narasimhan, B. 2011. "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.

Conference Presentations

• Adricula, N., and Narasimhan, B. 2019. “'Understanding is understanding by seeing': Visual perception verbs in child language.” To be presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
• Chen, J., Chan, A., Narasimhan, B., Yang, W., Oteef, M., Dimroth, C. 2019. “Information structure and word order in conjoined noun phrases in Mandarin Chinese: A cross-linguistic perspective”. Sixteenth International Pragmatics Conference, Hongkong, PRC.
• Chen, J., Chan, A., Narasimhan, B.,Yang, W. 2019. “Information Structure and Different Preferences for Word Order in Conjoined Noun Phrases in Child and Adult Speech of Mandarin Chinese.” 31^st American Psychological Science Annual Convention, Washington DC.
• Narasimhan, B., Adricula, N., Ford, E., Quintana, S., Temple, L., Peterson, L., Lack, J., Ramos-Bierge, S., Williamson-Lee, J. 2019. “Vertical Space-Number Associations in Children.” Society for Research in Child Development Bienniel Meeting. Baltimore, MD.
• Narasimhan, B., Adricula, N., Strother, M., Ford, E. 2019. “Directional Space-Number Mappings on the Vertical Axis.” Society for Research in Child Development Bienniel Meeting. Baltimore, MD.
• de Ruiter, L., Narasimhan, B., Chen, J., and Lack, J. 2018. "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.
• Chen, J. and Narasimhan, B. 2017. “Information Structure and Ordering Preferences in Child and Adult Speech in English.” Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA. November.
• Narasimhan, B., Williamson-Lee, J., Adricula, N., Good, C., Goetz-Weiss, L., and Zagnoli, K. 2017. “Developmental changes in spatial semantic categories.” Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
• Chen, J., Brown, P., and Narasimhan, B. 2017. “’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.
• Chen, J., Brown, P., and Narasimhan, B. 2017. “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.
• Narasimhan, B. Adricula, N., and Williamson-Lee, J. 2017. “Semantic reorganization in the lexicon: Acquiring spatial prepositions in English”. International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Lyons, France.
• Narasimhan, B., Cheng, F., Davidson, P., Kan, P.F., and Wagner, M. 2017. "Multimodal Cues in Verb Learning." Linguistic Society of America Winter Meeting, Austin, Texas.