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17 July 2019Community size matters when people create a new language
Why do some languages have simpler grammars than others? Researchers from the Netherlands and the UK propose that the size of the community influences the complexity of the language that evolves in it...
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04 July 2019Obituary Paul Lommen
Staff and students at the MPI are deeply saddened to learn of the death of Mr. Paul Lommen, our long-time head of administration. Paul had just retired at the end of 2017, after 17 years at the...
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04 July 2019Nijmegen Campus unravels the thirty-something brain
This summer, the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Radboud University, and the Radboud university medical center will unravel the thirty-something brain. The aim of the Healthy Brain Study...
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27 June 2019Our body is part of the conversation
When people talk face-to-face, they use both speech and their body to express themselves. Visual signals seem to aid communication, since people respond faster to multimodal messages (speech plus...
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25 June 2019Kletskoppen wint de Prijs der Humaniora
Op 20 juni jl. ontvingen Sharon Unsworth and Pim Franssen de Prijs der Humaniora voor hun inzet voor het Nijmeegse kindertaalfestival Kletskoppen. De prijs bestaat uit een oorkonde en een bedrag van...
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14 May 2019Speech recognition technology is not a solution for poor readers
Could artificial intelligence be a solution for people who cannot read well (functional illiterates) or cannot read at all (complete illiterates)? According to psycholinguists, speech technology...
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06 May 2019Prof. Caroline Rowland appointed professor by special appointment of First Language Acquisition
MPI's Prof. Caroline Rowland has been appointed professor by special appointment of First Language Acquisition at Radboud University‘s Faculty of Social Sciences.
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23 April 2019Peter Hagoort to be inducted as a new member of the American National Academy of Sciences
April 27 the prestigious US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will induct Peter Hagoort in Washington DC as a foreign associate. Hagoort is director at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics...
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13 April 2019Otto Hahn Medal for Sara Busquets Estruch
Each year, the Max Planck Society awards up to 30 young scientists and researchers for outstanding scientific achievements with the Otto Hahn Medal. Sara Busquets Estruch of the MPI for...
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11 April 2019Linda Drijvers will defend her thesis on May 13
On Monday May 13, 2019 at 14:30, Linda Drijvers will defend her thesis entitled “On the oscillatory dynamics underlying speech-gesture integration in clear and adverse listening conditions” in the...
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