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08 September 2025Young children are not the main drivers of language change
Theoretical study by Limor Raviv, Damian Blasi and Vera Kempe, argues that children are not likely to be the main force behind linguistic innovation.
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05 September 2025Wietske Vonk passed away
It is with great sorrow that we learned of the passing of Wietske Vonk on September 3, 2025. Wietske has been on our scientific staff since 1980, the year our Institute was established.
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01 September 2025Judith Holler delivers keynote at Interspeech 2025
Judith Holler, Senior Investigator in the Multimodal Language Department, delivered a keynote address at Interspeech 2025, held in Rotterdam from 17–21 August.
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21 August 2025Register now for the 'New Challenges, Novel Approaches' conference in Estonia
The MEDAL project is marking it's success after three years with a free conference entitled 'New Challenges, Novel Approaches', dedicated to tackling linguistic problems with the latest innovative...
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24 July 2025NWO grant for Stephanie Forkel to explore brain circuits
Stephanie Forkel’s project has been awarded the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) Open Competition M grant by NWO. Her work will shed new light on how our brains support speech and learning - with...
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22 July 2025Peter Hagoort elected Fellow of the British Academy
We are proud to announce that Peter Hagoort, emeritus director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy in recognition of his outstanding...
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22 July 2025Esam Ghaleb receives grant to develop gesture and interaction-aware multimodal generative AI
Esam Ghaleb has been awarded the NWO XS Open Competition - Domain Science grant for his project Grounded Gesture Generation in Context: Object- and Interaction-Aware Generative AI Models of Language...
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21 July 2025We rarely make ourselves as clear as we think - and the consequences can be serious
A recent article in The Observer revisits an important finding from 2022 by Ruth Corps and Antje Meyer: everyday conversations are so fast paced, with very short turns and much overlap between them...
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21 July 2025Research Report 2023–2024 now available
We are delighted to share the publication of our Research Report 2023–2024. The report reflects two years of steady progress and interdisciplinary discovery at the Max Planck Institute for...
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17 July 2025NWO Veni grant for Constantijn van der Burght
Constantijn (Stan) van der Burght (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Leiden University / Leiden University Centre for Linguistics) receives the maximum NWO Veni grant for his research. The...
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