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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.

 

Stern diaries

Clara and William Stern kept a diary (Tagebuch) on the psychological development of their three children, Hilde, Günther and Eva, born in 1900, 1902 and 1904 respectively. A first major publication based on these diaries was Clara & William Stern's Die Kindersprache (1907), which became a classic in the language acquisition literature. The accessibility of the Stern diaries, however, hasn't been optimal. It was Werner Deutsch of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen who, with Eva's unremitting support in Jerusalem, had the full diaries transcribed. Since then they have been electronically available through the Max Planck Institute.

 

 

Last checked 2012-03-27 by karin kastens

Max Planck Institute
for Psycholinguistics


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Wundtlaan 1
6525 XD Nijmegen
The Netherlands


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The Netherlands

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