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74
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580
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21

Harald Clahsen publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Harald Clahsen sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 261 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Harald Clahsen D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Harald Clahsen sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 74 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Harald Clahsen is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with a strong focus on Developmental and Educational Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience as key subfields.

Their work engages extensively with topics such as Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Reading and Literacy Development, and Second Language Acquisition and Learning. Additional research interests include Language Development and Disorders, Technology Use by Older Adults, Mobile Learning in Education, and Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility.

Harald Clahsen has published in a variety of academic journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • Arabixiv (OSF Preprints)
  • ReCALL
  • Language Cognition and Neuroscience
  • Gerontechnology

The scientist's recent papers reflect a mix of language acquisition, morphological studies, and technology use in older populations:

  • "Mobile-assisted language learning in older adults: Chances and challenges" (2021, ReCALL)
  • "Morphological decomposition in Bantu: a masked priming study on Setswana prefixation" (2020, Language Cognition and Neuroscience)
  • "Promoting social and collaborative language learning among older adults in the digital era: Development and evaluation of a smartphone app prototype using a design-thinking approach" (2022, Gerontechnology)
  • "Morphological generalization in bilingual language production: Age of acquisition determines variability" (2021, Language Acquisition)
  • "Morphological generalization in heritage speakers: The Turkish aorist" (2021, Second Language Research)

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Anna Jessen
  • Serkan Uygun
  • Cecilia Puebla
  • Tiphaine Fievet
  • Marilena Tsopanidi

In 2012, Harald Clahsen was recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea.

Best Publications

  • Grammatical Processing in Language Learners.

    Harald Clahsen;Claudia Felser

  • On determining developmental stages in natural second language acquisition

    Jürgen M. Meisel;Harald Clahsen;Manfred Pienemann

  • The availability of universal grammar to adult and child learners - a study of the acquisition of German word order:

    Harald Clahsen;Pieter Muysken

  • Lexical entries and rules of language: a multidisciplinary study of German inflection.

    Harald Clahsen

  • German inflection: The exception that proves the rule

    Gary F. Marcus;Ursula Brinkmann;Harald Clahsen;Richard Wiese

  • Linguistics: An Introduction

    Andrew Radford;Martin Atkinson;David Britain;Harald Clahsen

  • Deutsch als Zweitsprache : der Spracherwerb ausländischer Arbeiter

    Harald Clahsen;Jürgen M. Meisel;Manfred Pienemann;Forschungsgruppe Zisa

  • How native-like is non-native language processing?

    Harald Clahsen;Claudia Felser

  • The grammatical characterization of developmental dysphasia

    Harald Clahsen

  • Constraints on Parameter Setting: A Grammatical Analysis of Some Acquisition Stages in German Child Language

    Harald Clahsen

  • Parsing Strategies in L1 and L2 Sentence Processing: A study of relative clause attachment in Greek *

    Despina Papadopoulou;Harald Clahsen

  • The UG paradox in L2 acquisition

    Harald Clahsen;Pieter Muysken

  • Syntax and Morphology in Williams Syndrome.

    Harald Clahsen;Mayella Almazan

  • Gaps in Second Language Sentence Processing.

    Theodore Marinis;Leah Roberts;Claudia Felser;Harald Clahsen

  • Spracherwerb in der Kindheit : eine Untersuchung zur Entwicklung der Syntax bei Kleinkindern

    Harald Clahsen

  • Regular and irregular inflection in the acquisition of German noun plurals

    Harald Clahsen;Monika Rothweiler;Andreas Woest;Gary F. Marcus

  • Continuity and Shallow Structures in Language Processing.

    Harald Clahsen;Claudia Felser

  • The Acquisition of Agreement Morphology and its Syntactic Consequences: New Evidence on German Child Language from the Simone-Corpus

    Harald Clahsen;Martina Penke

  • Morphological Structure in Native and Nonnative Language Processing

    Harald Clahsen;Claudia Felser;Kathleen Neubauer;Mikako Sato

  • Formal features in impaired grammars: A comparison of English and German SLI children

    Harald Clahsen;Susanne Bartke;Sandra Göllner

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Spencer
Andrew Spencer University of Essex
Andrew Radford
Andrew Radford University of Glasgow
Claudia Felser
Claudia Felser Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Jubin Abutalebi
Jubin Abutalebi Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Thomas F. Münte
Thomas F. Münte University of Lübeck
Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells
Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Gary F. Marcus
Gary F. Marcus New York University
Silke Paulmann
Silke Paulmann University of Essex
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker Harvard University
Jürgen M. Meisel
Jürgen M. Meisel Universität Hamburg

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