Dr. Reshma Jacob holds a doctorate in Linguistics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She completed her MPhil and PhD focusing on phonological aspects of second language speech. Her doctoral research was supported by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). She has presented papers and published research in national and international conferences. Her work appears in refereed journals on topics like sociolinguistics, minority languages, oral traditions, grammaticalization, phonetics, and phonology. Dr. Jacob is also a UGC-NET-qualified scholar in Linguistics.