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10 February 2026Come play with language at the Kletskoppen Festival
On Sunday 22 February 2026, Bibliotheek Mariënburg in Nijmegen will once again turn into a lively language laboratory during the sixth edition of the Kletskoppen Festival.
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04 February 2026Merrill Garrett passed away
Professor Merrill Garrett passed away in Tucson on Friday January 30, 2026. An obituary by Pim Levelt.
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03 February 2026Giacomo Bignardi receives Frank X. Barron Award
Giacomo Bignardi, a rising researcher at Max Planck, has been awarded the Frank X. Barron Award by Division 10 of the American Psychological Association (APA).
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20 January 2026MPI researchers awarded Donders Stimulation Seed Funding
Several researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics have been awarded Donders Stimulation Seed Funding, supporting innovative, collaborative research at the intersection of...
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14 January 2026MEDAL Project concludes after three years
The Methodological Excellence in Data-Driven Approaches to Linguistics (MEDAL Home - MEDAL) consortium, which was launched in January 2023, has come to an end. The consortium was headed by the...
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11 December 2025MPI Books 2025: Exploring Language, Interaction, and the Predictive Mind
In 2025, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics have published three major books that together highlight the breadth and depth of contemporary research on language...
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10 December 2025€2 million ERC Consolidator Grant for research on how language emerges in the human brain
Stephanie Forkel has been awarded a €2 million ERC Consolidator Grant for her five-year project EMERGENCE, starting in 2026.
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10 December 2025Biobanking Opens New Windows Into Human Evolution
More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how human-specific DNA changes shaped our evolution. A new study published in Science...
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05 December 2025ARTE releases documentary about language evolution
Recently, we have worked together with European broadcaster ARTE in creating a documentary about hashtaglanguage evolution in the series ‘Stimmt es, dass ...?’.
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25 November 202565-year-old framework challenged by modern research
For over six decades, Charles Hockett’s ‘design features’ have served as the go-to blueprint for what makes human language unique. But a new study in Trends in Cognitive Sciences challenges that...
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