Saurabh Kumar Nath
স্বাগতম

Saurabh
Kumar Nath

Open to postdoctoral & teaching positions from January 2027
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Research lenses

From field recordings to patterns.

My research moves between community-based fieldwork and quantitative analysis: recording speech, building datasets, examining acoustic patterns, and asking what sounds reveal about language, people, place and society.

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Fieldwork in Assam
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Fieldwork in PNG
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Assamese Speech Corpora in PARADISEC
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Acoustics of Assamese Vowels

Projects

Assamese Dialectology Project

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Assamese Voices

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Multicultural Delhi Speech

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Publications

2026

An Acoustic Investigation of Mid Front Vowel Harmony in Assamese

In Proceedings of Interspeech 2026

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2026

Contrast, Context, and Contact: Phonetic variation in Assamese mid front vowel space.

In Asia-Pacific Language Variation

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2026

Talk across the Pacific: Developments in understanding traditional and modern multilingualism

In Asia-Pacific Language Variation

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2025

English-based acoustic models perform well in the forced alignment of two English-based Pacific Creoles.

In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

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Conferences

2026

An Acoustic Investigation of Mid Front Vowel Harmony in Assamese

Nath, Saurabh Kumar, Rosey Billington, Danielle Barth · Interspeech 2026 · ICC Sydney, Australia · 27 September–1 October

[Poster]

2026

Acoustic characteristics of vowels in Western, Central, and Eastern dialects of Assamese

Nath, Saurabh Kumar. Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society 2026 · University of Western Australia · 1–4 December

Accepted

2026

Can classifier overgeneralisation be a dialect feature? Evidence from Assamese

Kaushika Nath, Saurabh Kumar Nath · Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society 2026 · University of Western Australia · 1–4 December

Accepted

2025

Story of /o/: A Sociophonetic Investigation on Assamese Back Vowels

Nath, Saurabh Kumar. · NWAV-AP 8 · National University of Singapore, Singapore

Best Student Oral Presentation Award

2024

Investigating variation of mid-front vowels in Assamese

Nath, Saurabh Kumar. ·Methods in Dialectology XVIII · La Trobe University, Melbourne

Education

Education

  • PhD in Linguistics(pursuing) Australian National University · 2023—
  • MPhil in Linguistics University of Delhi · 2019–2022 · A variationist description of vowels in Assamese
  • MA in Linguistics University of Delhi · 2017–2019 · Valency change in Ladakhi

Selected grants & scholarships

  • Bhati Family India Travel Grant2024
  • Australian Linguistics Society Research Grant2024
  • SARI Student Grant2023
  • ANU University Research Scholarship2023
  • ANU HDR Fee Merit Scholarship2023
  • CoEDL Travel Grant2019
  • Firebird Fellowship2017

Experience

2025 — present

Research & Fieldwork Assistant

Modelling Pacific Creoles Project

Australian National University

2021

Language Consultant

Boston University

Worked on Kate Lindsey's Linguistic Field Methods course. We studied the Bannegeira variety of Assamese spoken in the Barnagar subdivision of Barpeta, Assam.

2021

Invited Teaching

Tezpur University

Contributed to teaching in Introduction to Linguistics and Structure of Assamese for MA students in Assamese.