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Welcome to the Max Planck Institute for PsycholinguisticsMay 21, 2013
The Research Report 2011-2012 is now available, covering highlights of research at the MPI for Psycholinguistics in 2011 and 2012. The colourful cover uncovers the genes that help us speak.
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May 08, 2013
Every year, a small selection of promising young scientists is awarded the prestigious Otto Hahn Medal by the Max Planck Society. Mark Dingemanse received the medal for his 2011 dissertation on the meaning and use of ideophones in Siwu, a language spoken in Ghana. On June 5, 2013, there will be an official ceremony in Potsdam.
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May 05, 2013
How do people exchange knowledge in everyday conversations? Kaoru Hayano investigated Japanese social interaction and discovered that people constantly try to achieve matching views about knowledge and (states of) information. She will defend her thesis ‘Territories of knowledge in Japanese Conversation’ on May 6 at 13:30, in the Radboud University Aula.
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Apr 29, 2013
Does spatial language influence how people think about space? Yes, so it seems, a collaborative team of researchers from the Netherlands (MPI for Psycholinguistics and Radboud University) and the USA (University of Chicago, Northwestern University and John Hopkins University) recently discovered. The absence of spatial language goes hand-in-hand with poor performance on nonlinguistic spatial tasks, they demonstrated in a paper that was recently published in Cognition.
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Apr 04, 2013
The Dutch Network of Women Professors (LNVH) recently awarded former MPI researchers Susanne Brouwer and Caroline Junge travel grants from the Dutch Women Scientists Fund (DWSF). This fund was established in 2012 at the request of former MPI director Professor Anne Cutler.
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Mar 21, 2013
Remember your first summer camp, meeting a new group of children for the first time? Who would you want to be friends with? Who would you share your breakfast with? One answer is: the ones who speak the same way you do. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig have found that accent is an early developing guide to children’s social preferences. The study by Emma Cohen and Daniel Haun was published in Evolution and Human Behavior on March 14.
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Mar 07, 2013
Willem Levelt, one of the founders of the MPI for Psycholinguistics, has been awarded the American Philosophical Society's Patrick Suppes Prize in the History of Science in recognition of his book 'A History of Psycholinguistics -- The Pre-Chomskyan Era'. The official presentation will be at their Annual Spring Meeting in Philadelphia on April 26, 2013.
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Feb 18, 2013
How do listeners adapt to foreign-accented speech? Our perceptual system is remarkably flexible and able to deal with a speaker with a foreign accent quickly and automatically, Marijt Witteman concludes in her dissertation research. She will defend her thesis 'Lexical processing of foreign-accented speech: Rapid and flexible adaptation' on February 22 at 10:30, in the Radboud University Aula.
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