Dr.Narasimhan's research uses psycholinguistic experiments and statistical analysis of corpora to investigate the relationship between language and cognition, the acquisition of semantic and discourse-pragmatics in children acquiring a first language, and the crosslinguistic encoding of meaning and argument structure, with a focus on Hindi and Tamil.
keywords
meaning and argument structure, language-cognition relationship, developmental psycholinguistics, children's semantic and pragmatic development, acquisition of verb meaning, argument realization, information structure
