--- title: "R. Harald Baayen — author profile and papers · English" description: "R. Harald Baayen, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2026), h-index 85 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/r-harald-baayen/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/r-harald-baayen/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / R. Harald Baayen # R. Harald Baayen R. Harald Baayen has 4 papers in our library, in 2022–2026, most of them on [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Elnaz Shafaei-Bajestan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elnaz-shafaei-bajestan/), [Peter Uhrig](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-uhrig/), [Wafaa Mohammed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wafaa-mohammed/). 4 papers in our library · 2022–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5087366961) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3178-3944) · [**h-index 85**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5087366961) · [497 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5087366961) · [44,198 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5087366961&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/r-harald-baayen/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 22 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/r-harald-baayen/cited-by/) · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9662](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/97/#star-9662) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=R.+Harald+Baayen) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=R.+Harald+Baayen) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=R.+Harald+Baayen) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=R.+Harald+Baayen) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Tübingen** Tübingen · Germany 2011–2026 · 169 papersEmployment since 2011 · Professor, Quantitative Linguistics*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-tubingen/) · [🎓**Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg** Oldenburg · Germany 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/033n9gh91) · [🔬**Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics** Nijmegen · Netherlands 1990–2008 · 97 papersEmployment 1990–1998 · Member of Scientific Staff, Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/max-planck-institute-for-psycholinguistics/) · [🎓**University of Alberta** Edmonton · Canada 2007–2020 · 66 papersEmployment 2007–2011 · Professor, Quantitative Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-alberta/) · [🔬**Max Planck Society** Munich · Germany 1993–2008 · 36 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/max-planck-society/) · [🎓**Radboud University Nijmegen** Nijmegen · Netherlands 1998–2008 · 31 papersEmployment 1998–2005 · Postdoctoral Fellow, LinguisticsEmployment 2006–2007 · Professor, Quantitative Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/radboud-university-nijmegen/) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 2019–2020 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · [🎓**Center for Language Studies** Nijmegen · Netherlands 2003–2011 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/center-for-language-studies/) · [🎓**University of Turku** Turku · Finland 2000–2010 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-turku/) · [🎓**Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam** Amsterdam · Netherlands 1977–1990Education 1977–1983 · BA, TheologyEducation 1983–1985 · MA, General LinguisticsEducation 1985–1989 · PhD, General LinguisticsEmployment 1985–1989 · Teaching Fellow, General LinguisticsEmployment 1989–1990 · Postdoctoral Fellow, General Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/vrije-universiteit-amsterdam/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 7 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 8 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Psychology · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Developmental and Educational Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/developmental-and-educational-psychology/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/r-harald-baayen/year/2026/) · [**2022** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/r-harald-baayen/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Semantic properties of English nominal pluralization: Insights from word embeddings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shafaei-bajestan-2022-semantic-properties-english-nominal-pluralization/)** *(2022 · 11 citations)* The standard view treats the English plural as the addition of one abstract meaning ("more than one") to a singular. 2. **[Visual Grounding of Inter-lingual Word-Embeddings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mohammed-2022-visual-grounding-inter-lingual-word/)** *(2022 · 1 citation)* Most work on visually grounding word embeddings targets English alone, so it is unclear how grounding behaves when several languages share the process. 3. **[Letters hide the truth from our eyes: English homophones have meaningfully different phonetic realizations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tseng-2026-letters-hide-truth-eyes-english/)** *(2026)* The paper asks whether English heterographic homophones such as wait and weight are pronounced identically. 4. **[Making sense of spoken plurals](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shafaei-bajestan-2022-making-sense-spoken-plurals/)** *(2022)* The paper asks how the meaning of an English plural noun should be derived from the meaning of its singular in distributional semantics. ## All works 8 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Experiences from the Spoken Dutch Corpus Project ↗](https://aclanthology.org/L02-1098/) Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'02) · no summary yet**Nelleke Oostdijk et al.*2002 · 149 citations* 2. **[Modeling morphology with Linear Discriminative Learning: considerations and design choices ↗](https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.720713) arXiv:2106.07936 · Frontiers in Psychology 12 (2021), p. 4929 · no summary yet**Maria Heitmeier, Yu-Ying Chuang, R. Harald Baayen*2021 · 29 citations* 3. [**Semantic properties of English nominal pluralization: Insights from word embeddings**Elnaz Shafaei-Bajestan, Masoumeh Moradipour-Tari, Peter Uhrig, et al.*English · 11 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shafaei-bajestan-2022-semantic-properties-english-nominal-pluralization/) 4. **[The Pragmatics of the 'Tenses' in Biblical Hebrew ↗](https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.21.2.02baa) Studies in Language · no summary yet**R. Harald Baayen*1997 · 6 citations* 5. **[Electrophysiological correlates of noun-noun compound processing by non-native speakers of English ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W14-5705/) Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Compound Analysis (ComAComA 2014) · no summary yet**Cecile De Cat, Harald Baayen, Ekaterini Klepousniotou*2014 · 5 citations* 6. [**Visual Grounding of Inter-lingual Word-Embeddings Proceedings of the Workshop on Unimodal and Multimodal Induction of Linguistic Structures (UM-IoS)**Wafaa Mohammed, Hassan Shahmohammadi, Hendrik P. A. Lensch, et al.*2022 · 1 citation*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mohammed-2022-visual-grounding-inter-lingual-word/) 7. [**Letters hide the truth from our eyes: English homophones have meaningfully different phonetic realizations arXiv:2608.26749**Yu-Hsiang Tseng, Mirjam T. C. Ernestus, Louis F. M. ten Bosch, et al.*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tseng-2026-letters-hide-truth-eyes-english/) 8. [**Making sense of spoken plurals arXiv:2207.01947**Elnaz Shafaei-Bajestan, Peter Uhrig, R. Harald Baayen*2022*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shafaei-bajestan-2022-making-sense-spoken-plurals/) ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Elnaz Shafaei-Bajestan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elnaz-shafaei-bajestan/) ×2 - [Peter Uhrig](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-uhrig/) ×2 - [Wafaa Mohammed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wafaa-mohammed/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Compound Analysis (ComAComA 2014) - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'02) - Proceedings of the Workshop on Unimodal and Multimodal Induction of Linguistic Structures (UM-IoS) - Studies in Language ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 22 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [3 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/r-harald-baayen/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026