The Centre was founded in the year 2014. The structure of the centre is interdisciplinary, diverse projects involving various streams of
specialization will contribute towards building a knowledge base and developing technologies for the
NE languages in particular.
Some collaborators in centre are already in possession of sponsored
projects that are run in an interdisciplinary manner. For example, the DeITy sponsored project aimed
at archiving and preserving speech data has interdisciplinary research interests.
Current Students
Faculties
Publications
26 March 2026, CLST Conference Room, IITG
Talk by Ms. Nilanjana Chowdhury on 'Cognitive load and Language Dominance: Bilingual performance in a Dual-Task Paradigm'...
27 February 2026, CLST Conference Room, IITG
Talk by Koyel Mukherjee on 'Reconstructing Events Across Fragmented Information: An Eye-Tracking Study of Comic Panel'...
29 January 2026, CLST Conference Room, IITG
Talk by Joyshree Chakraborty on 'Comparing Time and Frequency-Domain Rhythm Measures in Classifying Assamese Dialects'...
Kuppuraj Bishop Study Visit Grant awarded
Chandni Khaund, who is working under the guidance of Prof. Shakuntala Mahanta and Prof. Shyamanta Moni Hazarika, has been granted the prestigious Kuppuraj-Bishop Study Visit by the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) of the UK on 11th Jan. 2024. She will be stationed at the School of Education, Communication, and Language Sciences, Newcastle University, in the Speech and Language Sciences division. During her three-month stay, Chandni will be working with Dr Laurence White and Dr Faye Smith on children's reading acquisition and development across different orthographies.
UnrestricTED Winner
Seema Lokhandwala won the UnrestricTED competition on 12th Feb 2023. She is an engineer turned elephant biologist who aims to integrate latest technologies with data and concepts from elephant communication, behavior and ecology to understand the ecological and evolutionary process.