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This department is presently being reorganized. In the meantime, Wolfgang Klein directs a new research unit at the Institute, The Language Archive (TLA), jointly funded by the Max Planck Society, the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW) and the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW). TLA is developing the tools for long-range corpus archiving and analysis - for both language acquisition databases and video recordings of natural language usage of all kinds.

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Up until September 30, 2012, the Language Acquisition Department investigated processes of language acquisition and use in a broad perspective. The department combined attention to both first and second languages, researching production as well as comprehension of speakers of different ages and cultures, and the developmental relationship between language and cognition. The focus was on morpho-syntax, semantics and discourse structure. Work over the last years was primarily done within the scope of three Institute Projects:

Information structure in language acquisition
Categories across language and cognition
Multimodal interaction

The Language acquisition group also coordinated the European wide network project The structure of learner varieties: http://www.learner-varieties.eu

Last checked 2013-03-11 by Nanjo Bogdanowicz

Acquisition Department

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Street address
Wundtlaan 1
6525 XD Nijmegen
The Netherlands

Mailing address
P.O. Box 310
6500 AH Nijmegen
The Netherlands

Phone: +31-24-3521454
Fax: +31-24-3521213

Director: Wolfgang Klein

Secretary: Nanjo Bogdanowicz

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