Harald Baayen receives an honorary doctorate in linguistics from University of Tartu

Professor Rolf Harald Baayen will be granted an honorary doctorate in linguistics on December 1st for his outstanding contribution to the development and teaching of quantitative linguistics methodology and for his long-standing collaboration with the linguists of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Tartu.

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Harald Baayen is Professor of Quantitative Linguistics in Eberhard Karls Universität in Tübingen, Germany. Harald has experience in writing research proposals for the European Research Council and holds an ECR Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).

The award ceremony will take place on December 1st in Tartu. Before the ceremony, Harald will give two workshops: one about grant writing and another about modelling lexical processing using the JudiLing package. 

Harald will be sharing his experiences writing grant proposals for the ERC in a MEDAL workshop. Harald Baayen and Laura Janda will jointly run a workshop on grant writing on Wednesday, 29th November. This is a hybrid event that will take place both online, accessible over Zoom, and at the Insitute of Estonian and General Linguistics in Tartu in room 114, from 12:30-17:00 EE / 11:30-16:00 NL / 10:30-15:00 UK.

More info here and registration here.

Harald's ERC project examines “Subliminal learning in the Mandarin lexicon“ (SUBLIMINAL). The project investigates how we can improve second-language learning by considering that writing systems hide from our eyes the truth of how we really speak. Central to Harald Baayen’s research project „Subliminal learning in the Mandarin lexicon“ (SUBLIMINAL) is the observation that there are subtle regularities in spoken language that escape our awareness but play an essential role in language learning and language use.

Harald's second workshop includes an introductory lecture about modelling lexical processing and a hands-on dive into the JudiLing package. Harald will begin this workshop with a general introduction to the `Discriminative Lexicon Model' (DLM), a cognitive computational model of the mental lexicon that Harald has been developing over the last 10 years with generous support from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the European Research Council.  

The second part of the workshop will take a hands-on approach. Harald will introduce participants to the software package on the 30th of November from 10:00-16:00 EE / 09:00-15:00 NL / 8:00-14:00 UK. This is a hybrid event that will take place both online on Zoom and at the Insitute of Estonian and General Linguistics in Tartu in room 114.

More info here and registration here.