My primary research interests are in Phonology and Phonetics.
Papers
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2026
Gu, Christine, Kaustubh Ghoshal, Zhilang Liu, Felix Fonseca Quesada, Gideon Kortenhoven, Vitor Lacerda Siqueira, and Lisa Davidson. 2026. “Beijing Mandarin nasalization upon r-suffixation is phonologized: A nasometry study.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters 6(8): 085203. pdf
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2026
Ghoshal, Kaustubh. 2026. “Emergence of the marked: Vowel lengthening in Bangla.” Proceedings of the Annual Meeting on Phonology 2025, University of California, Berkeley. pdf
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2024
Ghoshal, Kaustubh. 2024. “Ordering expectation: The semantics of Indian English scalar only.” Proceedings of the 47th Annual Penn Linguistics Conference, UPenn Working Papers in Linguistics 30. pdf
Presentations
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2026
Computational perspectives on syllable weight. Phonetics and Phonology in the NorthEast (PhPhoNE), Yale University. April 25, 2026. handout
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2026
Beijing Mandarin nasalization upon rhotic suffixation is phonologized. Talk at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting (LSA 2026), New Orleans, LA. slides
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2025
Vowel lengthening in Bangla. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting on Phonology, University of California, Berkeley. 25–27 September, 2025. proceedings
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2024
Movement and Non-Movement in Hindi-Urdu Correlatives. Yale Syntax Reading Group, Yale University, New Haven. 9 February 2024. Invited Talk
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2023
Ordering expectation: The semantics of scalar only in Indian English. Penn Linguistics Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 18 March 2023.
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2023
None other than other than: A Gricean account of the English subtractive. SYNC 23, Yale University, New Haven. 4 March 2023.
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2020
When plural marking and classifiers can co-occur: An extraction analysis. (Formal) Approaches to South Asian Languages 10, Ohio State University, Columbus. 21 March 2020.
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2019
Backward and partial control in Assamese. 40th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of Nepal, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. 26 November 2019.
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2019
Two types of control in Gujarati. 41st International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak, India. 13 November 2019.
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2019
Control in Assamese, Bangla and Gujarati. SynSem@the4thPot, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. 18 October 2019.
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2018
Plural marking in a classifier language. Nominals at the Interfaces, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea. 2 November 2018.
Miscellaneous
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2021
Control in Assamese, Bangla and Gujarati. MPhil thesis, University of Delhi. pdf
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2018
Negation in Zou. MA thesis, University of Delhi.