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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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Inaugural lecture Nick Enfield

On July 15, 2009, MPI researcher Nicholas (Nick) Enfield (1966, Australia) was appointed Professor in Ethnolinguistics, with special reference to South-East Asia at the Radboud University Nijmegen. His inaugural lecture, entitled 'Human Sociality at the Heart of Language', will be on November 4 in the Aula of the Radboud University at 15:45.

Inaugural lecture Nick Enfield

Oct 16, 2009

Enfield is particularly interested in social interaction and the social context of language. In his fieldwork he and his colleagues collect natural conversations in very different languages from various continents.'If languages are so extremely different around the world, what is common to them?', Enfield wonders. He is exploring the idea that the underlying commonalities to language are due to our common social understanding and motivations. 'Collecting data from language in social interaction helps us to understand the nature of human universals and diversity.'

Last checked 2009-12-18 by Myrna Tinbergen

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