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ERC Starting Grant for Nick Enfield

MPI staff member Nick Enfield has been awarded two million euros from the European Research Council (ERC) to set up a 5-year research group under the ERC’s ‘Starting Independent Researcher Grant’ programme.
ERC Starting Grant for Nick Enfield

Aug 27, 2009

The project – titled ‘Human Sociality and Systems of Language Use’ – will involve extensive fieldwork on seven non-European languages (in South East Asia, West Africa, and South America) to test the hypothesis that patterns of language use are universally grounded in uniquely human social-cognitive interactional propensities.

Observing natural conversation

A team of six researchers – the team leader with three research fellows and two PhD students – will build corpora of video-recorded natural conversation, and use these corpora for systematic description and comparison of three structured domains of linguistic practice in social interaction: repair, reference, and requests. An aim of the project is to break new ground in typology by working on phenomena that can only be observed in natural conversation, a genre dominant in life but rarely studied in linguistics. The project will begin in January 2010, with full staff on board by the middle of the year. The hosting Institution is the MPI for Psycholinguistics.

Last checked 2009-11-09 by Myrna Tinbergen
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The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics is an institute of the German Max Planck Society. Our mission is to undertake basic research into the psychological,social and biological foundations of language. The goal is to understand how our minds and brains process language, how language interacts with other aspects of mind, and how we can learn languages of quite different types.

The institute is situated on the campus of the Radboud University. We participate in the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, and have particularly close ties to that institute's Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging. We also participate in the Centre for Language Studies. A joint graduate school, the IMPRS in Language Sciences, links the Donders Institute, the CLS and the MPI.

 

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