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12 April 2021Pieter Muysken (1950-2021)
It is with a true sense of loss that we record the unexpected death of Pieter Muysken on April 6th 2021. He was an External Scientific Member for the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics...
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01 April 2021The Halmahera Collection
The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics are pleased to announce that The Halmahera collection has been added to the archive.
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24 March 2021John Huisman will defend his thesis on Tuesday 30th of March 2021
On Tuesday 30th March 2021, at 10.30, John Huisman will defend his thesis entitled "Variation in form and meaning across the Japonic language family with a focus on the Ryukyuan languages".
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23 March 2021Bilingual babies prefer baby talk, especially when it’s one of their native languages, according to new study
Babies prefer baby talk in any language, but particularly when it’s in a language they’re hearing at home. “Together, the results of the first two ManyBabies studies, testing monolingual and bilingual...
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16 March 2021Scientists link genes to brain asymmetry
The left and right sides of our brain specialise in different functions. But what is the genetic basis of this left-right asymmetry? In a large-scale genetic study, scientists from the Max Planck and...
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12 March 2021Andrea Martin appointed as Lise Meitner Group Leader
Andrea Martin, Max Planck Research Group Leader of the group Language and Computation in Neural Systems" (LaCNS), has been chosen as one of the Lise Meitner Group Leaders by the Max Planck Society...
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11 March 2021New tool automatically checks accuracy of speech transcriptions
Speech researchers are often interested in intelligibility. This is typically measured by playing utterances to volunteers and asking them to type out what they hear. However, manually scoring those...
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11 March 2021Join our two-day meeting on the topic of The Neurobiology of Language: Key Issues and Ways Forward
The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics celebrates its 40th anniversary with a series of scientific events. One of these events is a two-day meeting on the topic of The Neurobiology of Language...
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09 March 2021Francie Manhardt will defend her thesis on Friday 12th of March 2021
On Friday, 12th of March 2021, at 14:30 (CET), Francie Manhardt will defend her doctoral thesis entitled “A tale of two modalities: How modality shapes language production and visual attention”.
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