Affiliation

Linguistic Research Unit
Indian Statistical Institute
203, Barrackpore Trunk Road
Baranagar, Kolkata- 700108, West Bengal, India
Email: atul.aman1@gmail.com

Education

  • 2014-2019, Sponsored PhD Candidate (Humanities & Social Sciences), IIT, Kharagpur
  • 2013-2019, Senior Research Fellow, Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
  • Master of (Arts) in Linguistics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh 2010-2012
  • Bachelor of (Arts) in Functional English Honors (Vocational), ST. Xaviers College, Ranchi University, Ranchi, Jharkhand, 2007-2010

Awards and Fellowships

  • Senior Research Fellowship from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata (2015 - 2019)
  • University Grant Commission, National Eligibility Test( Lecturer) 2013
  • Junior Research Fellowship from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata ( 2013 - 2015)

Work Experience

  • Worked as a Resource person (2018 - 2019) for the Mother Tongue Survey of India, Language Division, Kolkata to phonetically transcribe, annotate and analyse the linguistic properties of the various languages spoken in India. (viz., Panwari, Koli, Uparmal).
  • Worked as a Teaching assistant Jan' 15 to June 15 ( B-tech 1st year) at Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
  • Participated in CIDLeS summer school ( Aug 2014 ) Community- driven Language Documentation at Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Lanuage Documentation at Minde, Portugal
  • Worked as a summer Intern (2014) at Phonetics and Phonology laboratory at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Assam under the supervision of Dr. Shakuntala Mohanta.
  • Worked as a Project linked Person under the project titled "Linguistic Field Survey at Giridih, Jharkhand" at LRU, ISI, Kolkata ( July 2012 - March 2013 ) under the supervision of Dr.Niladri Sekhar Dash at Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.(July 2012- March 2013)

Field Linguistic Surveys

  1. January 2017: Conducted a controlled Linguistic Field survey on Khortha in order to analyse the Intonation patterns at Giridih, Jharkhand from 10 native speakers. (15th January 2017-25th January 2017)
  2. March 2016 :Conducted a Linguistic Field survey on an unrecorded local language variety used in the east past of West Medinipur district in the state of West Bengal, India. We covered 8 villages , 50 informants covering an area of nearly 50 square kilometres. Collected audio text, video text, word lists, sentence lists, Free Discourse Text, songs, stories, folk, tales, mantras, hymns, riddles, lullabies, dance, narratives, culatural texts, heritage, history, anecdotes and all other verbal texts of the communities. The villages were Belda, Dantan, Keshiyari, Keshrambha, Nayagram, Bhasraghat, Jenkapur and other neighbouring villages. The entire survey was principally supervised by Dr. Niladri Sekhar Dash, and there were eleven field linguistics who accompanied us for the entire field survay during 6th March to 12th March, 2016.
  3. November 2014: Conducted a Linguistic Field Survey at four villages in the district of Ranchi, Hazaribagh, and Ramgarh in the state of Jharkhand among native Khortha speakers for the purpose of elicitation of samples of spoken data in the form of lexical list, sentence list, and free discourse speech along with some recordings of local songs, lullabies, riddles, death songs, birth songs, marriage songs and other socio-cultural events and narrations thereof. The surveys were conducted during 04-8 November 2014 by me, my supervisor Dr. Niladri Sekhar Dash.
  4. February 2014:Conducted a Linguistic Field Surveyto collect (in the form of free discourse text) from nearly 10 native Khortha speakers living in Manzhladih village in thedistrict of Giridih, Jharkhand, Indiafor developing a digital archive of the language and other linguistics properties for the speech community (25 - 27th February 2014).
  5. December 2013: Conducted aLinguistic Field Survey on Baleswari Dialect data (in the form of free discourse based on spoken text samples) from 44 native Baleswari Dialect Speakers living in neighbouring villages around Panchalingeswar in thedistrict of Balasore, Odisha, Indiafor developing a digital archive of the dialect and its other linguistics properties (24-28 December 2012). A team of 6 linguists and 1 technician worked under the supervision of Dr. Niladri Sekhar Dash in the project of digital language data collection and storage.
  6. October 2013: Conducted a Linguistic field survey on Khortha language data atManzhladih, Pachamba, Parasnath, Dumri, Bokaro, Chas, Jainamore and Bokaro Thermal in Jharkhand among native Khortha speakers for the purpose of elicitation of samples of spoken data in the form of lexical list, sentence list, and free discourse speech along with some recordings of local songs, lullabies, riddles, death songs, birth songs, marriage songs and other socio-cultural events and narrations thereof. The surveys were conducted during 09-20 October 2013 by me, and by some of the local mediators at the different villages.
  7. August 2012: Conducted a Linguistic field survey on Khortha language data at somevillages in the district of Bokaro and Ranchi in the state of Jharkhand among native Khortha speakers for the purpose of elicitation of samples of spoken data in the form of lexical list, sentence list, and free discourse speech along with some recordings of local songs, lullabies, riddles, death songs, birth songs, marriage songs and other socio-cultural events and narrations thereof. The surveys were conducted during 06-16 August 2012 by me, and by some of the local mediators at the different villages.

Publications in National & International conference proceedings



  • Gope, Amalesh, Gitanjali Chetry and Atul Aman (2018) Intonation and Focus Marking in Chaparmukh-Nagaon Variety of Nepali, Bridging Research on Cognition and Speech (BROCAS), 17-18 Feb 2018
  • Aman, Atul, Niladri Sekhar Dash and Jayashree Chakraborty (2017) A Linguistic Outline of Khortha, 4th National Language Conference, NIT Berhampur, Orissa. (6th-9th July, 2017)
  • Aman, Atul, Niladri Sekhar Dash and Amalesh Gope (2017) Generation of a Digital Lexical Database from a Multi-Domain Khortha Speech Corpus through Lexocigraphic Glossing and Annotation, 5th ELKL, 24th-26th February 2017, Centre of Tribal and Folklore, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, India.
  • Aman, Atul, Niladri Sekhar Dash (2016) Ethical and practical Issues in Documentation of Khortha Language in Jharkhand, 4th Endangered and Lesser-Known Languages conference (ELKL-4), 25th- 27th February 2016, held at Department of linguistics, KMI, Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar University, Agra.
  • Aman, Atul, Niladri Sekhar Dash and Jayashree Chakraborty (2015) Investigating the Patterns of Syllable Structure in Khortha as Observed in Spoken Khortha Text, 43rd All India conference of Dravidian Linguists 18th -20th June, held at Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu.
  • Dash, Niladri Sekhar and Atul Aman (2014) Generation of a Dialect Corpus in Khortha used in Jharkhand India: Some Empirical Observations and Theoretical Postulations, 31st South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA-31), held at Lancaster University, United Kingdom.
  • Aman & Dash (2013) An Attempt towards Documentation and Preservation of Khortha, presented in the 2nd Endangered & lesser known languages in India, organized by Department of linguistics at University of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
  • Aman & Dash (2013) A Phonological Overview of Khortha -A language spoken in Jharkhand, presented in the 11th International conference of south Asian languages and literatures, Department of Languages and Literatures, Department of Linguistics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
  • Aman, Atul (2012) Language Contact in Jharkhand, presented in the 34th All India Conference of Linguistics, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India.

Publications in International peer-reviewed Journal



  • Dash, Niladri Sekhar and Atul Aman (2015) Generation of a Dialect Corpus in Khortha used in Jharkhand India: Some Empirical Observations and Theoretical Postulations, Journal of Advanced Linguistic Studies (JALS), Vol.4, No.1-2, Jan-Dec 2015, ISSN: 2231-4075.
  • Aman, Atul. Niladri Sekhar Dash. & Jayashree Chakraborty. “Designing a Linguistic Profile of Khortha: A Less-Resourced Language Spoken in the State of Jharkhand, India”, Accepted for the publication in Dialectologia, Volume No 25, July 2020.

Publication in a Book volume



  • Aman, Atul. & Niladri Sekhar Dash. Jayashree Chakraborty. & Amalesh Gope. “Consonants in Khortha”, Accepted for a festschrift volume to be released in April 2019.

Participation at Seminars, Conferences, Workshops



  • Participated in an Advanced Workshop cum Training Programme on Laboratory Phonetics and Phonology, at CIIL, Mysore (25th -30th September 2017)
  • Participated in a Workshop on Computational and Cognitive Linguistics 19th- 21st March 2014, organized by CIIL, Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata..
  • Participated at the National Translation Missions - Translators Orientation Programme in Bangla from 1-5th July 2013, organized by CIIL and Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
  • Participated in the Orientation cum Training Program on Natural Language processing,organized by the CIIL and Banaras Hindu University, Banaras, Uttar Pradesh. (January, 2012)
  • Participated in the Workshop of Sanskrit and Computational Linguistics organized by the Department of Grammar, Sanskrit Dharma Vigyan Sankay, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. (July, 2011)
  • Participated in the "Fifth Students conference of Linguistics in India (SCONLI-5)", organized by the, Department of Linguistics, University of Hyderabad, India. (Feb.2011)
  • Participated in the Workshop named "Introduction to Natural Language Processing" organized by the Linguistic data Consortium for Indian Languages, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. (October 2010)

Organized seminars, conferences and workshop



  • 2016:3-day Workshop on Language Technology and Cognitive Science 2016):Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 10-12 February 2016.
  • 2014:3-Day National Workshop on Computational and Cognitive Linguistics 2014):Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 19-21 March
  • 2013:5-Day Translators Orientation Programme in Bangla: National Mission, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India, Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 1-5 July 2013.
  • 2012:Sixth Student Conference of Linguistics in India (SCONLI-6) organised at the Department of Linguistics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, 17th-19th February 2012.

Research Interest/ Research Profile

    I have developed a speech-corpus-based phonetic reader of Khortha based on the descriptive as well as experimental linguistic methods under the PhD research. Apart from this, a trilingual lexical database of Khortha-Hindi-English has been developed on the Lexique pro platform which is used for language documentation and revitalisation purposes. The research work is based on the empirical speech elicitation methods which were conducted in various districts of Jharkhand.