Assistant Professor of Linguistics · Thammasat University

Benjamin Clarke

I am an experimental psycholinguist with a background in cognitive psychology. I study how people recognise, understand, and produce language, with a particular focus on Thai and English. My work combines behavioural psycholinguistics with the development of datasets and experimental materials for Thai.

I founded and direct the Cognitive and Language Processing (CLP) Lab in the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University. The lab provides a home for this research programme, its public resources, academic collaborations, and research supervision.

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Research at a Glance

Thai Psycholinguistics and Research Resources

Behavioural research on lexical-conceptual and object processing, supported by Thai psycholinguistic norms and experimental materials.

Representative publication

Thai norms for 480 colour object photographsJournal of Psycholinguistic Research (2018)

Component Processes in L1 and L2 Performance

Research on reading comprehension and developing work on speech, focused on the interacting knowledge and processing components that contribute to language performance.

Representative publication

L1 and L2 English reading across diverse language backgroundsLanguage Learning (2024)

Cross-Linguistic Psycholinguistics

International collaborative research on semantic priming and language processing across diverse languages and writing systems.

Representative publication

Semantic priming across 19 languagesNature Human Behaviour (2026)

Teaching and supervision

Language, Cognition, Application

Psycholinguistics is central to my teaching and supervision and is the subject most closely aligned with my research and training. I also teach clinical linguistics, alongside second language acquisition, English phonetics and phonology, and language learning and pedagogy.

Learn more about some of these subjects in the Teaching section.