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R. Baayen

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Preprint Aug 2026

Letters hide the truth from our eyes: English homophones have meaningfully different phonetic realizations

The distribution of spoken word duration of English homophones is known to co-vary with frequency of use. This study investigates whether other aspects of the phonetic realization of homophones also differ. A series of quantitative investigations of 14,000 homophone tokens in American television news broadcasts reveale...

Yu-Hsiang Tseng, Mirjam Ernestus, L. ten Bosch et al. · 1 citation
Open access Sep 2026

Learning Finnish inflectional classes: experiments with the discriminative lexicon model

This study shows that the Discriminative Lexicon Model (DLM) can learn Finnish nominal inflection from paired form and meaning embeddings, without being given access to stems, exponents, inflectional features, and information about inflectional class. It also shows that the model is productive. It generalizes to novel...

Alexandre Nikolaev, Yu-Ying Chuang, R. Baayen · 0 citations
Open access Aug 2026

A flexicon without words

This study investigates how the concept of morphological transcendence ( Libben, 2010 , 2014 ) is manifest across semantic, visual, and phonetic processing of English compounds. The theory of morphological transcendence proposes that constituents inside compounds take on position-specific meanings that differ...

M. Bell, R. Baayen · 1 citation
Open access Jul 2026

An experimental and computational study of an Estonian single-subject word naming experiment

A large-scale single-subject experiment combining the word naming task with eye-tracking revealed a novel phenomenon, namely that when the lexical route is not functioning, response latencies increase, spoken word durations decrease, and the speaker likely resorted to naming with the non-lexical grapheme-to-phoneme nam...

Kaidi Lõo, A. Tavast, Maria Heitmeier et al. · 0 citations

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