Somdev Kar

About

Associate professor (Linguistics) at the Dept of Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Ropar, India.
PhD in Linguistics from University of Tübingen, Germany.

Research interests:
Phonology (Optimality Theory), Distributed Morphology, Evolutionary Linguistics, Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Previous appointments:
Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, Germany;
Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore, India;
Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.

Employment

• Indian Institute of Technology Ropar Associate Professor
  2018 - Present
• Indian Institute of Technology Ropar Assistant Professor
  2010 - 2018
• Qatar University Visiting Assistant Professor
  2010 - 2010
• Central Institute of Indian Languages Senior Fellow
  2008 - 2010

Education

• Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen PhD in Linguistics
  2005 - 2009
• University of Hyderabad MA in Applied Linguistics
  2002 - 2004
• University of Calcutta BA (Honours in Linguistics)
  1999 - 2002

Projects & Funding

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Publications (20)

• Exploring tonal contrasts in Dharamshala Tibetan using mathematical modeling, statistical modeling, and machine learning algorithms
  Sharmistha Sarkar, Somdev Kar, Amalesh Gope
  Language and Linguistics. 語言暨語言學 2026 DOI: 10.1075/lali.00260.sar
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• Onomatopoeia in Maithili: A Correspondence Analysis in Optimality Theory
  Priyeshi Kumari, Somdev Kar
  Journal of Universal Language 2026 DOI: 10.22425/jul.2026.27.1.63
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• Low vowel raising in Malayalam
  Ashitha Rachel Jacob, Somdev Kar
  SN Social Sciences 2026 DOI: 10.1007/s43545-026-01313-y
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• Sonorant Gemination in Old Tamil
  Ramprashanth Venkatakrishnan, Somdev Kar
  Bhasha: Journal of South Asian Linguistics, Philology and Grammatical Traditions 2025 DOI: 10.30687/bhasha/2785-5953/2025/01/005
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• Aspects of language contact among the Hajongs of the Goalpara district of Assam
  International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, 54(2), 82-117 2025
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• Intervocalic Gemination in Mappila Malayalam: Evidence from Perso-Arabic Loanwords
  SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics 2024
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• Matribhashapedia: IMLI Linguistic Encyclopedia of Mother Languages (Vol. 1)
  International Mother Language Institute (IMLI) 2024
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• Word stress patterns in Dharamshala Tibetan: An Optimality Theoretic formalization
  Sharmistha Sarkar, Somdev Kar
  CONCENTRIC-STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS 2024 DOI: 10.1075/CONSL.00036.KAR
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• REDUPLICATION INITIATED through DISCOURSE MARKERS: A CASE of HADOTI
  Dialectologia 2020
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• Syllable structure and stratification in Bangla
  Somdev Kar, Hubert Truckenbrodt
  Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, 6(1), 1-25 2019 DOI: 10.1515/jsall-2019-2008
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• Phonology of Kanauji
  Advances in Hindi Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics 2018
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• Sonority and Reduplication in Hadoti
  Gulab Chand, Somdev Kar
  Journal of Universal Language 2017 DOI: 10.22425/jul.2017.18.2.1
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• Revival of Endangered Languages: A Case Study of Hadoti
  International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, 46(2), 153-170 2017
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• On documenting low resourced Indian languages insights from kanauji speech corpus
  Dialectologia 2017
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• Kanauji of Kanpur: A brief overview
  Pankaj Dwivedi, Somdev Kar
  Acta Linguistica Asiatica 2016 DOI: 10.4312/ala.6.1.101-119
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• Complex onsets in regional varieties of Bangla
  Somdev Kar
  LANGUAGE SCIENCES 2013 DOI: 10.1016/J.LANGSCI.2013.06.001
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• Voicing agreement in Bangla word-medial clusters
  Indian Linguistics, 73(1-4): 175-184 2012
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• Syllable Structure of Bangla: An Optimality-Theoretic Approach
  2010
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• Gemination in Bangla: An optimality Theoretic Analysis
  Somdev Kar
  2009 DOI: 10.3329/dujl.v1i2.3718
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• The syllable structure of Bangla in optimality theory and its application to the analysis of verbal inflectional paradigms in distributed morphology
  2009
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