Samar Husain

Biographic Data

ID6536842
NAMESamar Husain
GIVEN NAMESSamar
FAMILY NAMEHusain
SIGNATUREHUSAIN S
AFFILIATIONSIndian Institute of Technology Delhi
ORCID0000-0002-4336-4897
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • The effect of similarity-based interference on bottom-up and top-down processing in verb-final languages

    Open AccessSamar Husain, Apurva Apurva et al.ARTICLEJournal of Memory and Language2025

  • A Reappraisal of Dependency Length Minimization as a Linguistic Universal

    Open AccessHimanshu Yadav, Shubham Mittal et al.ARTICLEOpen MIND2022

    Dependency length minimization is widely regarded as a cross-linguistic universal reflecting syntactic complexity in natural languages. A typical way to operationalize dependency length in corpus-based studies has been to count the number of words between syntactically related words. However, such a formulation ignores the syntactic nature of the linguistic material that intervenes a dependency. In this work, we investigate if the number of synta…

  • Assessing Corpus Evidence for Formal and Psycholinguistic Constraints on Nonprojectivity

    Open AccessHimanshu Yadav, Samar Husain et al.ARTICLEComputational Linguistics2022References: 7

    Formal constraints on crossing dependencies have played a large role in research on the formal complexity of natural language grammars and parsing. Here we ask whether the apparent evidence for constraints on crossing dependencies in treebanks might arise because of independent constraints on trees, such as low arity and dependency length minimization. We address this question using two sets of experiments. In Experiment 1, we compare the distrib…

  • Revisiting anti-locality effects

    Open AccessApurva Apurva, Samar HusainARTICLEJournal of Memory and Language2021

  • Do dependency lengths explain constraints on crossing dependencies

    Himanshu Yadav, Samar Husain et al.ARTICLELinguistics Vanguard2021

    In syntactic dependency trees, when arcs are drawn from syntactic heads to dependents, they rarely cross. Constraints on these crossing dependencies are critical for determining the syntactic properties of human language, because they define the position of natural language in formal language hierarchies. We study whether the apparent constraints on crossing syntactic dependencies in natural language might be explained by constraints on dependenc…