Shakuntala Mahanta
Presentations

2015

Kalyan Das & Shakuntala Mahanta, Variation in Prosodic phrasing in Bodo, Workshop on prosodic variation, Pro-Var, July 9th, 2015

Asim Islam Twaha & Shakuntala Mahanta, Prosody of contrastive focus in two varieties of Assamese (poster presentation), Workshop on prosodic variation, Pro-Var, July 9th, 2015

2014

Kalyan Das & Shakuntala Mahanta, Intonation of Contrastive Focus in Boro Himalayan Linguistics Symposium, Singapore, 16 July 2014

Amalesh Gope & Shakuntala Mahanta, Lexical Tones in Sylheti, Tonal Aspects of Language, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands, June 2014

Amalesh Gope & Shakuntala Mahanta: Tones in Sylheti: An Acoustic Approach. South Asian Langauges Roundtable, February 2014

2013

Shakuntala Mahanta, Indranil Dutta and Prarthana Acharyya, Tonal Alignment in Deori. Acoustical Society of America Meeting 2013. San Francisco December 1 2013

Shakuntala Mahanta, Locality of vowel harmony in exceptional and non-derived environments, Invited Talk in the Seminar on ‘Faculty of Language: Its Design and Interfaces’, IIT Delhi, February 2013

Shakuntala Mahanta,The phonetics and phonology of  Focus in Bodo, Workshop in Tone and Intonation 2, February 2013

2012

Shakuntala Mahanta and Kalyan Das, Prosody of Focus in Bodo, 18th Himalayan Linguistics Symposium, Benares Hindu University

D. Govind, S.Mahanta and SRM Prasanna. Significance of duration in the prosodic analysis of Assamese. Speech Prosody, Shanghai. May 2

 Indranil Dutta, Mimi Kevichüsa Ezung, S. Mahanta and Savio Megolhuto Meyase. Lexical tones of Tenyidie: Fundamental frequency, voice quality and pitch modeling. Workshop on Tone and Intonation, IIT Guwahati Jan 2012

2011

Shakuntala Mahanta, The prosodic phonology of the NEG marker in Assamese. International Seminar on Prosodic Interfaces, JNU, New Delhi November 2011

Shakuntala Mahanta, Derived Environments in vowel harmony. Manchester Phonology Meeting. May 2011

2010

Shakuntala Mahanta, Cognitive Biases in the learning of opaque segments. Invited talk, School of Language Sciences, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. August 24, 2010

Shakuntala Mahanta, Prosodic Phonology of Negation in Assamese. Invited talk in the, Department of Cognitive Science, University of Potsdam, Germany, March 26, 2010

Shakuntala Mahanta, Phonological Bias in the learning of opaque segments in vowel harmony. Invited Talk in the Department of Cognitive Science, University of Potsdam, Germany, March 26 2010

Shakuntala Mahanta, Phonological Bias in the learning of opaque segments in vowel harmony, presented in the XXth Colloquium of Generative Gramamar , Barcelona, Spain, March 20-23, 2010

2009

Shakuntala Mahanta, Locality and emergent unmarkedness in, exceptional triggering . Paper presented in the GLOW in Asia VII Colloquium . February, 2010. English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. 

Shakuntala Mahanta, Invited talk "Devoicing of sonorants as an areal feature of Tibeto-Burman " in the Workshop on “Cultures of the North-East India: Ethnic and Archaeological Background” organized by the Centre for Archaeological Studies and Training Institute (CASTI) 6-7 November, Kolkata        

2007 

Shakuntala Mahanta, Non-iterativity and Sequential Markedness Constraints Paper presented in NELS 38, Nov 24- 26, (University of Ottawa, Canada) On Consonantal Intervention in Vowel harmony . Paper presented in the OCP 4, 18-21 Jan, 2007, (University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece)  

Shakuntala Mahanta, Local vs. non-local consonantal intervention. Paper presented in ConSOLE XV, 11-13 Jan, 2007, (Vrije Universitat, Brussels)

 2006

Shakuntala Mahanta, On Local vs. Non-Local blocking by consonants in Vowel Harmony. Paper presented on 28th Oct 2006 WECOL 2006 California State University, Fresno. 

(Shakuntala Mahanta and Joe Pater, UMass Amherst) Vowel Harmony in Harmonic Grammar with Harmonic Serialism , 25th Oct, 2006 Sound Circle, Utrecht. 

Shakuntala Mahanta, Edge Asymmetries in Assamese Vowel Harmony July 6th Sound Circle, Utrecht 

Shakuntala Mahanta, On the Convergence of Positional Markedness and Morphemic Presence. Paper presented in the Penn Linguistics Colloquim (PLC 30) 24-26 Feb, 2006, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

 2005

Shakuntala Mahanta, Morpheme Realization and Directionality. Paper presented in the 5th GLOW in Asia, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India  5-8 Oct 2005 

Shakuntala Mahanta, Morpheme Realization and Vowel Harmony. Paper presented in the LAGB Meeting, University of Cambridge, U.K. 31Aug - 3 Sep  

Shakuntala Mahanta, Pitch and Moraicity in Assamese, Bangla and Oriya. Poster presentation in BeST (Between Stress and Tone), Leiden, June 2005

 Shakuntala Mahanta, Regressive Vowel Harmony in Assamese. Paper presented in the 6th International Conference on South Asian Languages (ICOSAL 6), Hyderabad, India. 6-8 Jan 2005  

2004

Shakuntala Mahanta, Assamese Nasals Blocking Harmony. Paper presented with Janet Grijzenhout in the12th Manchester Phonology Meeting (12 mfm), Manchester, U.K, 20-22 May 2004

 Shakuntala Mahanta, Linking of Pitch to Mora. Poster presented in the 9th conference on Laboratory Phonology, University of Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A, 24-26 June 2004

 Shakuntala Mahanta, Unifying Vowel Harmony. Talk given in Uiltjesdagen, Utrecht institute of Linguistics of Utrecht University,11th  May 2004.

 2003

Shakuntala Mahanta, Vowel Harmony in Assamese and Bengali. Nijmegen Lunch Lecture, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (KUN) Monday 15th December 2003

 2002

Shakuntala Mahanta, How far is perception constrained by the phonology of Individual grammars? - The case of a marked vowel in Assamese. Paper presented in Snippets –2, Hyderabad Central University, April 2002.

 Shakuntala Mahanta and K.G. Vijayakrishnan, CIEFL, Hyderabad) Low rise on Prominence. aper presented jointly in the International conference on the Architecture of Grammar, CIEFL, Hyderabad, Jan 2002

 Shakuntala Mahanta, The Prosodic Phonology of Negation in Assamese. Poster presentation in the International conference on the Architecture of Grammar, CIEFL, Hyderabad, Jan 2002 

Shakuntala Mahanta, Prominence as a left edge parameter in Oriya, Bangla and Oxomiya – A typological study. Open Presentation in the 2nd meeting of the Generative Linguists of Hyderabad, November 2002 

2001

Shakuntala Mahanta, Prosodic phonology of NEG movement and copy in Assamese.  Paper accepted for poster presentation in the 10th Manchester Phonology meeting, 24th May 2002. 

2000

Shakuntala Mahanta, Conflict Resolution of syllable quantity and vowel quality: the case of Standard and Goalporia Assamese. Paper presented in the International Conference on Stress and Rhythm, CIEFL, 11- 15 Dec 2000.