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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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New book on language of Trobriand Islanders

Gunter Senft, Professor at the MPI for Psycholinguistics and the University of Cologne, has recently published a book on Kilivila, the language of the Trobriand Islanders, entitled 'The Trobriand Islanders' Ways of Speaking'. It represents the Trobriand Islanders' indigenous typology of the varieties of Kilivila and their constituting genres.

New book on language of Trobriand Islanders

September 10, 2010

'My book is unique in two ways', says Professor Senft. 'First, it finally meets the demand of the famous anthropologist Malinowski that, here I quote, 'to approach the goal of ethnographic field-work, requires a collection of ethnographic statements, characteristic narratives, typical utterances, items of folklore and magical formulae as a corpus inscriptionum, as documents of native mentality'. Second, the book makes almost all the data presented available via the internet (www.mpi.nl/trobriand), using the language archive of the MPI for Psycholinguistics.'

For more information on the book see link and link.

Last checked 2010-12-09 by Myrna Tinbergen

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