Professor Harald Clahsen FBA

Psycholinguistics; first and second language acquisition, developmental and acquired language disorders, the experimental study of language processing in different languages
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2008
Subjects
Linguistics

Current post

Professor of Psycholinguistics and Multilingualism, University of Potsdam; Director, Potsdam Research Institute of Multilingualism (PRIM)

Past appointments

University of Potsdam

2011 -

University of Potsdam NULL

2011 -

University of Essex Professor of Linguistics, University of Essex

1993 - 2011

University of Essex Professor of Linguistics, University of Essex

1993 - 2011

University of Düsseldorf Lecturer in Linguistics

1983 - 1993

University of Hamburg Research Fellow in Linguistics

1981 - 1982

Other Foreign Institutions Research Fellow in Linguistics, University of Wuppertal, Germany

1978 - 1980

Publications

Clahsen, H. 1999. Lexical entries and rules of language: a multi-disciplinary study of German inflection. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22: 991-1013. [KEYNOTE ARTICLE] 1999

Clahsen, H, Sonnenstuhl, I., Hadler, M. and S. Eisenbeiss. The mental representation of inflected words: an experimental study of adjectives and verbs in German. Language 77: 510-543. 2001

Clahsen, H. and C. Felser. Grammatical processing in language learners. Applied Psycholinguistics 27: 3-42. [KEYNOTE ARTICLE] 2006

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