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Harald Baayen
U. of Alberta, Canada |
Harald Baayen studied with Geert Booij at the Free University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and completed his PhD thesis in 1989. In 1990, he joined the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, as a full-time researcher. He became associate professor at the Radboud University in Nijmegen in 1998, leading a large research group experimentally investigating morphological processing. In 2007, he accepted a full professorship in quantitative linguistics in Canada at the University of Alberta, Edmonton.
Harald Baayen has a long-standing interest in morphological productivity. In his PhD thesis, he developed quantitative measures for gauging degrees of productivity. Recent work in collaboration with Ingo Plag, combining corpus data and experimental data, was published in Language in 2009.
His experimental research on the reading of complex words has addressed the role of type and token frequencies in the processing of morphologically complex words. His research (carried out in collaboration with Rob Schreuder) documents facilitation from higher word frequency not only for derived words and compounds, but also for fully regular inflected words. For derived words and compounds, the type count of morphologically related words (the morphological family size) has been shown to co-determine lexical processing, with words with more productive stems having shorter processing latencies.
With Mirjam Ernestus, he worked on the auditory comprehension of reduced words, as well as on the production and comprehension of final devoicing. In their 2003 paper in Language, Ernestus and Baayen showed how final devoicing can be understood in an exemplar-driven approach, without having to posit abstract underlying forms.
>Harald Baayen has also been exploring the predictive power of information-theoretic measures such as entropy for lexical processing, in collaboration with Victor Kuperman and Petar Milin. Recently, he has been developing a computational model for morphological processing based on discriminative learning principles and insights from construction grammar. The model integrates morphological learning with phrasal learning, and correctly predicts a wide range of experimentally observed family size, frequency, and entropy effects for both words and phrases. |
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| • June 16, 2010 |
| Abstract submission begins. |
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| • October 15, 2010 |
| Theme session proposals due |
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| • November 15, 2010 |
| Abstract submission ends. |
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| • February 15, 2011 |
| Notification of acceptance |
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| • March 15, 2011 |
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| • July 11-17, 2011 |
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Harald Baayen, U. of Alberta, Canada |
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Ewa Dabrowska, Northumbria U., UK |
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Mirjam Fried, Czech Academy of
Sciences,Prague, Czech Republic |
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Kaoru Horie,Nagoya University, Japan |
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Ronald Langacker, UC San Diego, USA |
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John Lucy, The University of Chicago,
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Jiaxuan Shen, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China |
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