My full CV in PDF format is here, and you can find my PhD thesis, An Experimental Approach to Variation and Variability in Constituent Order, on ProQuest

Below is a list of journal articles, invited presentations, and select refereed presentations ordered (roughly) by topic

Journal Articles

Namboodiripad, S., Kim, D., & Kim, G. (in press). English-dominant Korean-speakers show reduced flexibility in constituent order. In Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society.

Namboodiripad, S., Lenzen, D., Lepic, R., & Verhoef, T. (2016). Measuring conventionalization in the manual modality. Journal of Language Evolution.

Namboodiripad, S., Garellek, M. (2016). Illustrations of the IPA: Malayalam (Namboodiri Dialect). Journal of the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Goldin-Meadow, S., Namboodiripad, S., Mylander, C., Özyürek, A., & Sancar, B. (2014). The resilience of structure built around the predicate: Homesign gesture systems in Turkish and American deaf children. Journal of Cognition and Development.

Invited Presentations

Namboodiripad, S. (2019). An experimental approach to flexible constituent order in Malayalam. Plenary talk at Formal Approaches to South Asian Linguistics 9. Portland, Oregon.

Namboodiripad, S., Hou, L., & Occhino, C. (2019). A Survey of Linguists and Language Researchers: Harassment, Bias, and What We Can Do About It. Plenary panel at the Linguistic Society of America's Annual Meeting. New York, New York.

Namboodiripad, S. (2018). Contact, variation, and change in constituent order: integrating social and cognitive approaches. Invited talk at the University of Chicago's Language Variation and Change Workshop. Chicago, Illinois.

Namboodiripad, S. (2017). Language contact and language evolution: Integrating approaches. Invited talk at the Center for Language Evolution, University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, Scotland.

Namboodiripad, S. (2017). Towards a motivated model of contact-induced syntactic change: flexible constituent order and beyond. Invited talk at the Language Acquisition, Variation, & Attrition Group, The Arctic University of Norway. Tromsø, Norway.

Flexible constituent order and syntactic typology

Zaslansky, M., &  Namboodiripad, S. (2019). Syntactic Flexibility in the Djar Dialect of Avar: Experimental Evidence from Basic Constituent Order. Talk at the Linguistic Forum 2019: Indigenous languages of Russia and beyond. Moscow, Russia.

Namboodiripad, S., Kush, D., & Morgan, A. (2019). Experimental approaches to cross-linguistic variation in island phenomena. Organized Session at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. New York, New York. [slides]

Namboodiripad, S. (2017). Acceptability judgment tasks as a measure of variation within and across languages with “flexible” constituent order. Talk at the 50th Societas Linguistica Europaea Conference. Zurich, Switzerland.

Kim, D., Kim, G., & Namboodiripad, S. (2017). Bilingual Processing of Flexible Constituent Order in Korean. Poster at Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP) 23. Lancaster, United Kingdom.

Namboodiripad, S. (2017). Language contact as a source of reduced flexibility in Malayalam constituent order. Talk at the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics. San Antonio, Texas.

Namboodiripad, S. (2017). Language contact as a source of reduced flexibility in Malayalam constituent order. Talk at the ‘Bridging formal and sociolinguistic approaches to language contact and code-mixing’ workshop hosted by the Linguistic Complexity in the Individual and Society Group. Trondheim, Norway.

Namboodiripad, S., Kim, D., & Kim, G. (2017). English-dominant Korean speakers show reduced flexibility in constituent order. Talk at the 53rd Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago, Illinois.

Namboodiripad, S. (2017). Using acceptability judgments to study language change: Age differences reflect differences in speakers’ linguistic systems. Poster at the 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Boston, Massachusetts.

Namboodiripad, S., Goodall, G. (2017). Formal acceptability experiments as a tool for exploring variation in constituent order. Talk at the Linguistic Society of America's Annual Meeting. Austin, Texas.

Namboodiripad, S., & Goodall, G. (2016). Verb position predicts acceptability in a flexible SOV language. Poster at the 29th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Gainesville, Florida.

Namboodiripad, S., & Goodall, G. (2015). On the Universality of Adjunct Islands: Evidence from Malayalam. Poster presented at 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Los Angeles, California.

Language contact

Namboodiripad, S. (2019). Contact-induced change in constituent order: Opportunities for integrating socio-, psycho-, and historical linguistics. Talk at the North American Research Network for Historical Sociolinguistics workshop at KFLC: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference. Lexington, Kentucky.

Namboodiripad, S. & Lepic, R. (2018). Constructions in contact: Two studies of English-influenced language change. Talk at the 10th International Conference on Construction Grammar. Paris, France.

Namboodiripad, S. (2018). The IT-boom as a facilitator of language maintenance: Malayalees in Minnesota. Talk at The International Congress of Linguists 20. Cape Town, South Africa.

Namboodiripad, S. (2018). Language contact as partial contributor to linguistic universals. Talk at the Workshop on the Emergence of Universals. Columbus, Ohio.

Language emergence

Namboodiripad, S. (2019). Language contact, language evolution, and flexible constituent order. Poster at the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution's inaugural workshop. Zurich, Switzerland.

Lepic, R., Namboodiripad, S., Lenzen, D., & Verhoef, T. (2016). Repetition and reduction in silent gesture: Evidence from body tracking. Talk at the 7th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies. Paris, France.

Namboodiripad, S., Lenzen, D., Lepic, R., & Verhoef, T. (2016). Measuring Conventionalization in the Manual Modality. Talk at the 11th International Conference on the Evolution of Language. New Orleans, Louisiana.

Abner, N., Namboodiripad, S., Spaepen, E., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2016). Child Homesigners Innovate Morphology: Evidence from Number Marking. Talk at The Sign Language and Linguistics Society's Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Meeting. Melbourne, Australia.

Abner, N., Namboodiripad, S., Spaepen, E., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2015). What Counts: Morphological Encoding of Number Information in Child Homesigners. Talk at the Linguistic Society of America's Annual Meeting. Portland, Oregon.

Malayalam phonetics and phonology

Bouavichith, D., Namboodiripad, S., & Garellek, M. (2018). A contrastive place of articulation between palatals and velars: an ultrasound study of Malayalam palatal-velar nasals. Talk at Acoustical Society of America 175. Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Namboodiripad, S., Bakovic, E., & Garellek, M. (2015). Moraic Geminates in Malayalam: Evidence from minimal word effects and loanword adaptation. Talk at the Old World Conference in Phonology. Barcelona, Spain.