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Bidisha Som 

Bidisha Som 

Professor 
Education: PhD
Linguistics
bidisha@iitg.ac.in
+91 361 2582568
Room No: 205
Personal Website

Research Interests: language processing, culture and cognition, social linguistics, second language acquisition.

Journal Publications

1. Kechu, Opangienla, Som, Bidisha, Benites, Luis and Maehara, Rocío, "CAN CULTURAL DISTANCE BE A FACTOR IN BILINGUAL PROCESSING? REPORT FROM PRIMED TRANSLATION RECOGNITION TASK OF RONGMEI-MEITEI BILINGUALS", Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, Mouton De Gruyter, vol.60, Issue no.3, pp.349-377 [2024], https://doi.org/10.1515/psicl-2023-0015

2. Omid Khatin-Zadeh . Hassan Banaruee . Florencia Reali . Carlos Tirado .Susana Ruiz-Ferna ́ndez . Yuki Yamada . Ruiming Wang . Robin Nicolas .Tariq Khwaileh . Malina Szychowska . Johanna Vestlund . Juan C. Correa .Danyal Farsani . Natalie Butcher . Bidisha Som . Ivan Volkonskii .Koen Plevoets . Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos, "Metaphors of time across cultures", Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, Springer [2023], DOI: 10.1007/s41809-023-00125-3

3. Opangienla Kechu & Bidisha Som, "Is task specific control among balanced bilinguals a result of nature of acquisition and language use?", Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, Springer, vol.7, Issue no.8, pp.23-42 [2022]

4. Nicholas A. Coles , David S. March, Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos , Jeff T. Larsen, Nwadiogo C. Arinze, Izuchukwu L. G. Ndukaihe, Megan L. Willis, Francesco Foroni, Niv Reggev, Aviv Mokady , Patrick S. Forscher, John F. Hunter, Gwenaël Kaminski, Elif Yüvrük , Aycan Kapucu, Tamás Nagy, Nandor Hajdu, Julian Tejada, Raquel M. K. Freitag, Danilo Zambran, Bidisha Som, Balazs Aczel, Krystian Barzykowski, Sylwia Adamus , Katarzyna Filip, Yuki Yamada, Ayumi Ikeda,Daniel L. Eav, Carmel A. Levitan, Sydney Leiweke,Michal Parzuchowski, Natalie Butcher, Gerit Pfuhl ,Dana M. Basnight-Brown , José A. Hinojosa, Pedro R. Montoro,Lady G. Javela D , Kevin Vezirian, Hans IJzerman, Natalia Trujillo , Sarah D. Pressman, Pascal M. Gygax , Asil A. Özdoğru , Susana Ruiz-Fernandez, Phoebe C. Ellsworth , Lowell Gaertner, Fritz Strack, Marco Marozzi and Marco Tullio Liuzza, "A multi-lab test of the facial feedback hypothesis by the Many Smiles Collaboration.  ", Nature Human Behaviour, Springer Nature, vol.6, Issue no.12, pp.1-12 [2022], DOI: 10.1038/s41562-022-01458-9.

5. Das, Deepshikha & Bidisha Som, "Language learning, cognitive theory and multilingualism: A proposal for India.", Lokratna, Folklore Foundation of Odisha, vol.XIII, Issue no.1, pp.0-0, ISBN.2347-6427 [2019]

6. Som, B, "Structure of Bodo motion verb: Salience of PATH component", IJDL, Dravidian Linguistics Association, vol.48, Issue no.2, pp.118-136, ISBN.0378-2484 [2019]

7. Som, B, Kalita, R & Mishra, R K., "CULTURE CUES FACILITATE OBJECT NAMING IN BOTH NATIVE AND SECOND LANGUAGE: EVIDENCE FROM BODO-ASSAMESE BILINGUALS.", Journal of Cultural cognitive Science, Springer Nature, vol.2, Issue no.1, pp.45-57, ISBN.2520-1018 [2018]

8. Kaur, S & Som, B., "Priming effects across Bodo-Assamese Bilinguals: The effect of age of acquisition and level of proficiency", International Journal of Mind Brain and Cognition, vol.4, Issue no.01-Feb, pp.87-112 [2013]

9. Som, B., "Towards a Cognitive Linguistic Understanding of Folk Narratives", Lokaratna, vol.4, Issue no.NA, pp.54-63 [2011]

10. Som, B., "Language, Categorization and Cognitive Structures: The Case of Great Andamanese", International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, ISDL, vol.40, Issue no.1, pp.175-190 [2011]

11. Abbi, A, Som, B & Das, A., "Where have all the Speakers gone? A Sociolinguistic Sketch of the Great Andamanese", Indian Linguistics, vol.68, Issue no.03-Apr, pp.325-343 [2007]

12. Som, B , "Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics special issue on Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics and Language Cognition", Conceptual Structure vs. Lexical structure: The case of Great Andamanese, vol.33, Issue no.2, pp.119-127 [2007]

Conference Proceedings

1. Koyel Mukherjee, Bidisha SOm, Abhishek Srivastava., "Exploring Visual Morphology: An enquiry whether visual elements provide meaning conceptually or with individual components.”", Visual Language Conference (VisLang’24, Tilburg University, Netherlands [2024]

2. Emily Thomas, Bidisha Som & Abhishek Srivastava., ""The Elusive bilingual advantage: Investigation into working memory"", International conference on Culture, Cognition and Globalization: The vitality of languages., IIT Patna [2023]

3. Emily Thomas, Bidisha SOm, Abhishel Srivastava, ""Decoding the bilingual advantage: Mixed evidence from four executive control tasks".", AmLaP 2023, Basque Center for on Cognition, Brain and Languages [2023]

4. Emilu Thomas, Bidisha SOm & Abhishek Srivastava., "Inhibitory control in bilinguals: Testing the Adaptive Control Hypothesis.", AmLap Asia, Chinese University of Hoing Kong. [2023]

5. Taznin Hussain & Bidisha Som, "Does there exist any correlation between the age and severity rate among the autistic children: Analysing and interpreting the long term effectiveness of early intervention"", ICOLSI, Aligarh Muslim University [2023]

6. Vasundhara Srivastava and Bidisha Som, "Is there a Midway Always? : SPR evidence for the absence of partial selective access in Hindi-English bilinguals", Proceedings of the International Symposium of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS-2019), Institute of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech Chania 73100, Greece, vol.NA, Issue no.NA, pp.130-135, ISBN.ISBN 978 - 618 - 823 [2019]

7. S. Narzary  Maharaj Brahma Bobita Singha, Rangjali Brahma, Sunita Barman, Sukumar Nandi and Bidisha Som., "Attention based English-Bodo Neural Machine Translation System for Tourism Domain", 3rd International Conference on Computing Methodologies and Communication (ICCMC), pp.335-343 [2019], doi: 10.1109/ICCMC.2019.8819699.

8. Borah, B., Pathak, D., Sarmah, P., Som, B., Nandi, S., "“Survey of Text based Chatbot in Perspective of Recent Technologies.”", Mandal, J., Mukhopadhyay, S., Dutta, P., Dasgupta, K. (eds) Computational Intelligence, Communications, and Business Analytics. Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer, Singapore, vol.1031 [2019]

Book Chapter

1. Som, Bidisha and Shalu Kumari, "‘An adaptive system of language learning’" , Minati Panda, Suneeta Mishra & Judit Baranyi (Eds) : From Principles to Praxis: How linguistic theories interact with language learning and pedagogy , Springer Verlag. The Netherlands. , [2023]

2. Deepshikha Das & Bidisha Som, ""Childhood Bilingualism and Category Formation: Case of Gender"" , Ina Suryani & Dipima Borgohain (Eds). Learning in a Changing World. International Languages and Knowledge Book Series. , Universiti Malayasia Perlis, , vol.2 ISBN.1, [2019] ISBN.978-967-0922-58-4

3. Som, B, "Language as a Part of a Human Cognitive Mechanism: The View from Cognitive Linguistics" , Sudhir Mishra [ed]. Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing , Cambridge Scholar Publishing , vol.NA ISBN.1527507661, pp.17-44, [2018]

4. Kaur, S & Som, B., "Context Effects in Bilingual Language Processing" , Psycholinguistics and Cognition in Language Processing , IGI Global , vol.NA ISBN.9.78E+12, pp.140-168, [2018]

5. Som, B & Mishra, R., "Teaching a second language or Foreign language in the North East: Psycholinguistic and Cognitive Issues" , Awadesh K. Mishra and Kandarpa Das (Eds): Issues in teaching-learning second and foreign languages (with special reference to North East India) , Lakshi Publishers.Delhi , vol.NA ISBN.ISBN 978-81-906622-5, pp.52-71, [2011]

Sl.No Course Code Course Title Level
1 HS 769 Research Methods in Linguistics Ph.D Programme
2 HS 418M Language and Thought B.Tech
3 HS 135 Topics in Bilingualism
4 HS 737 Cognitive Linguistics: Theories and Methods Ph.D Programme
5 HS 734 Perspectives in Linguistics Ph.D Programme
6 HS 768 Bilingualism: language and cognition Ph.D Programme
7 HS 120 Language, Culture and Cognition B.Tech
8 HS 569 Language, mind and thought MA in Liberal Arts
9 HS 158 Introduction to Language Acquisition B.Tech
10 HS 551 Foundational linguistics MA in Liberal Arts
1

Integrated Track in Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Funding Agency : European Union
Principal Investigator: Bidisha Som
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 2023-05-01 to 2024-12-31
Status: Ongoing

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Bilingual experience in Heritage Language speakers and its impact on cognitive control
Funding Agency : DST
Principal Investigator: Bidisha Som
Co-investigator: None
Duration/Starting Year: 2023-09-25 to 2026-09-30
Status: Ongoing
3

A typological map of the language-cognition interface in the domain of conceptual metaphor
Funding Agency : DST
Principal Investigator: Bidisha Som
Co-investigator: none
Duration/Starting Year: 12-12-2013 to 31-03-2017
Status: Completed
4

An ethnolinguistic account of sensory perception among the Bodos in North East India.
Funding Agency : ICSSR-NWO
Principal Investigator: Bidisha Som
Co-investigator: Prof. Asifa Majid, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Duration/Starting Year: 2013-00-00 to 2014-00-00
Status: Completed
5

Scheme for the Protection and Preservation of Endangered Languages: sherdukpen
Funding Agency : CIIL
Principal Investigator: Bidisha Som
Co-investigator: None
Duration/Starting Year: 2013-00-00 to 2014-00-00
Status: Completed
6

The cognitive schemas and motion verbs: A comparative study of two North-Eastern languages of India
Funding Agency : IITG
Principal Investigator: Bidisha Som
Co-investigator: None
Duration/Starting Year: 2008-00-00 to 2010-00-00
Status: Completed
Sl.No Name Year Dissertation Title
1 Deepak Basumatary 2013 A Sociolinguistic profile of the Bodo Community of Karbi Anglong, Assam
2 Sandeep Bera 2012 The process and the factors of language shift and maintenance: A Sociolinguistic Research in the Santali minority community in Durgapur region, West Bengal

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Sl.No Name Year
Sl.No Program Name Email Year Thesis/Project Title Affiliation
1 PhD Emily Thomas Bilingualism and cognitive control Center for Linguistic Science nd Technology, IITG
2 PhD Shalu Kumari Assisting Teacher and Students in New Language Learning Center for Linguistic Science nd Technology, IITG
3 PhD Nilanjana Chaudhury Language dominance among bilinguals Center for Linguistic Science nd Technology, IITG
4 PhD Koyel Mukherjee Processing of comics as a language Center for Linguistic Science nd Technology, IITG
5 PhD Pratik Nanda Spatial cognition and language Center for Linguistic Science nd Technology, IITG

Awards and Achievements

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Patents

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Sl.No Name of Faculty and co-researcher Title Application No Date of Award Year Status

Attended

Title: Cognitive Linguistics for language teaching framework

Name of Conference: International Conference on Language, Media and Culture (ICLMC 2024)

Jadavpur University, Kolkata Mar 13, 2024 - Mar 15, 2024 International View
Title: language learning

Name of Conference: Research Scholars’ Conclave

IIIT Guwahati, Guwahati May 24, 2024 - May 25, 2024 National View
Title: language learning tools

Name of Conference: The 12th European Conference on Language Learning (ECLL24),

University of London, London Jul 11, 2024 - Jul 15, 2024 International View
Title: “Exploring Visual Morphology: An enquiry whether visual elements provide meaning conceptually or with individual components.”

Name of Conference: Visual Language Conference (VisLang’24)

Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands Jun 27, 2024 - Jun 28, 2024 International
Title: Conceptual Categories in Second Language: case of Gender

Name of Conference: third Annual Meeting of the Society for Cognitive Scvience of Culture

BITS Pilani, Goa Feb 3, 2020 - Feb 7, 2020 International
Title: Is Adaptive Sontrol aided by Diversoty?

Name of Conference: third Annual Meeting of the Society for Cognitive Scvience of Culture

BITS Pilani, Goa Feb 3, 2020 - Feb 7, 2020 International
Title: Is there a Midway always?: Eye tracking evidence for the absence of partial selective access in Hindi-English bilinguals

Name of Conference: Capturing and Quantifying Individual Differences in Bilingualism

Arctic University of Norway, Tromso, Norway Sep 2, 2019 - Sep 3, 2019 International
Title: Is there a Midway Always? : SPR evidence for the absence of partial selective access in Hindi-English bilingual

Name of Conference: ISMBS

Institute of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS-2019), , Chania, Crete, Greece Aug 27, 2019 - Aug 30, 2019 International
Title: Stepping ahead or tracing back while language switching: Examining the switch-cost through self-paced reading in Hindi-English bilinguals

Name of Conference: 25th Architectures and Mechanism of Language Processing conference

Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Centre for Language and Brain, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia Sep 5, 2019 - Sep 8, 2019 International
Title: When differences are part of life, you don’t see them: Is adaptive control aided by diversity?

Name of Conference: 25th Architectures and Mechanism of Language Processing conference

Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Centre for Language and Brain, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia Sep 5, 2019 - Sep 8, 2019 International
Title: Switching when you want, is beneficial: Evidence from self-paced reading task

Name of Conference: Conference on Multilingualism

Leiden university, The Netherlands Sep 1, 2019 - Sep 3, 2019 International
Title: Bilngualism and/or complex social pragmatics makes salient cues irrelevant: findings from two indigenous bilingual groups

Name of Conference: conference on Multilingualism

Leiden University, The Netherlands Sep 1, 2019 - Sep 3, 2019 International
Title: Investigating the Role of Context on Bilingual Language Processing

Name of Conference: Conference on Multilingualism

Ghent University Belgium, Ghent University Belgium Dec 16, 2018 - Dec 18, 2018 International
Title: Effect of Context on Language Processing: Report from Studies on Two Bilingual Groups

Name of Conference: 40th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India

Central Institute of Indian Languages & Linguistic Society of India, Central Institute of Indian Languages Dec 5, 2018 - Dec 7, 2018 International
Title: Does the Bilingual Context Matter? Report from Primed Translation Recognition Task on Rongmei-Meitei Bilinguals

Name of Conference: 5th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science

IIT Guwahati, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati Oct 10, 2018 - Oct 12, 2018 National
Title: Understanding figurative language: case of fictive motion in Bodo

Name of Conference: ICOLSI

North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India Nov 1, 2012 - Oct 3, 2012 International
Title: Relationship of motion event structure and processing of Fictive Motion in a bilingual population

Name of Conference: Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition. (SALC IV)

University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland Jun 12, 2013 - Jun 14, 2013 International
Title: Metaphor in Language and Cognition

Name of Conference: National symposium on Advances in Language-Cognition Research

Centre for Neural and Cognitive Sciences. University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad Oct 30, 2013 - Oct 31, 2013 National
Title: Perspectives on the changing status of human subjects in linguistics

Name of Conference: International Convention on Ethics in research on Human participants

JNU, New Delhi Sep 2, 2014 - Sep 4, 2014 International
Title: Bilingual picture naming: A study on illiterate bilingual population

Name of Conference: The Attentive Listener in the Visual World

CNCS, Hyderabad university, Hyderabad, India Nov 3, 2014 - Nov 5, 2014 International
Title: Effect of education/socioeconomic status on bilingual picture naming with culture cues

Name of Conference: AMLaP

University of Malta Valetta, Malta Sep 3, 2015 - Sep 5, 2015 International
Title: Is figurative language processing dependent on literal meaning?Evidence from sensory perception verb

Name of Conference: Language and Perception International Conference

NTNU, Trondheim, Norway Jun 13, 2016 - Jun 16, 2016 International

Organised

Title: DST

Name of Conference: Annual Conference of Cognitive Science

Oct 10, 2018 - Oct 12, 2018 No.of Partcipants: 125 National View
Title: IITG

Name of Conference: Lecture series in Cognitive Science

Aug 12, 2017 - Mar 31, 2018 No.of Partcipants: Conve National
Title: ICSSR

Name of Conference: HLS

Jun 8, 2016 - Jun 10, 2016 No.of Partcipants: Organ International
Title: CIIL

Name of Conference: ICOLSI

Nov 10, 2016 - Nov 12, 2016 No.of Partcipants: Organ International
Title: DST

Name of Conference: National Symposium on Cognitive Science

Mar 16, 2017 - Mar 17, 2017 No.of Partcipants: Conve National

Invited

Title: Pan- NIT Humanities and Social Sciences Research Conclave (HSSRC)'

Name of Invited Lecture: Linguistics at crossroads​

NIT Warangal, Warangal, May 28, 2024 - May 30, 2024 International
Title: Investigating complexity in ‘the bilingual experience’ and its role in adaptive control

Name of Invited Lecture: Society for NeuroChemistry India (SNCI) 34th annual Meeting: symposium on Bilingualism and Cognition

University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad Dec 11, 2020 - Dec 13, 2020 National
Title: Neurodevelopmental disorder and language: some thoughts and pointers for future

Name of Invited Lecture: Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Society

O.P. Jindal University, Haryana May 2, 2022 - May 6, 2022 International
Title: NEP and Mother tongue education: some nuances

Name of Invited Lecture: Department Seminar Series special topic: NEP

Akal University Talwandi Saho, Chandigarh Mar 3, 2022 - Mar 3, 2022 National
Title: Nuances of lexical–semantic processing: an embodied perspective

Name of Invited Lecture: Current Trends in Lexical Semantics

Department of Linguistics University of Kerala, Kerala Feb 1, 2022 - Feb 3, 2022 National
Title: Linguistics as a Pillar of Cognitive Science

Name of Invited Lecture: Institute Seminar

NIT, Rourkela, Odisha Dec 18, 2015 - Dec 18, 2015 National
Title: Cognitive Neurolinguistics

Name of Invited Lecture: Cognitive Neuroscience Lab

BITS Pilani, Goa Mar 24, 2020 - Mar 24, 2020 National
Title: LInguistics Today: Langages and beyond

Name of Invited Lecture: Linguistics and Language Sciences: A Quantifuing Approach

Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer, Rajasthan Feb 19, 2020 - Feb 19, 2020 National
Title: Towards an adaptive system of language acquisition

Name of Invited Lecture: A Dialogue between Generative and Cultural-Cognitive Approach to Language Acquisition and Pedagogy

CAS, ZHCES, JNU and NMRC, JNU, JNU, New Delhi Mar 29, 2019 - Mar 29, 2019 National
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