Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
| Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics | |
|---|---|
| Category: | research Institute |
| Carrier: | Max Planck Society |
| Legal form of the carrier: | Registered association |
| Seat of the wearer: | Munich |
| Facility location: | Nijmegen , the Netherlands |
| Type of research: | Basic research |
| Subjects: | Structural sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | Linguistics , anthropology , cognitive science |
| Basic funding: | Federal government (50%), states (50%) |
| Management: | Caroline Rowland (Executive Director) |
| Employee: | about 110 |
| Homepage: | www.mpi.nl |
The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI-PL) is a non-university research institution sponsored by the Max Planck Society . The institute is one of five Max Planck institutes outside Germany (as of 2020), it is based in Nijmegen in the Netherlands , in the immediate vicinity of Radboud University . The institute primarily conducts basic research in the field of structural sciences in the field of linguistics .
The institute, founded in 1980, is a globally recognized center for linguistics, which with its international archive of threatened languages also makes a significant contribution to the preservation of the common cultural heritage of humanity. This archive has been funded by the Volkswagen Foundation since 2000 and offers around 50 projects on the Internet.
research
The Psycholinguistics studies the cognitive foundations of human language faculty. So it is devoted to the question of how language is implemented and processed in the brain.
The institute deals with interdisciplinary research into the structure and use of natural languages. Psycholinguistics is a relatively young discipline and has its roots in structural linguistics on the one hand and experimental and cognitive psychology on the other. There is also strong overlap with the disciplines of anthropology , computer science , neurology and phonetics . The four working areas of language production , language understanding, language acquisition and language and cognition form the scientific framework of the institute . These are strongly linked to one another via a flexible project structure, which corresponds to the interdisciplinary character of the research area.
Speech production
Retrieval of lexical and morphological information , syntactic phonological and phonetic encoding . Neurological basics of language processing , cerebral imaging methods for language production and understanding, aphasiology .
Understanding speech
Understanding language in the context of discourse, semantic , phonological and morphological representations of lexical units, structure of vocabulary , word recognition, segmentation of continuous language, sentence processing, acquisition of language perception skills and development of vocabulary in young children.
Language development
First and second language acquisition, acquisition of discourse scope , argument structure , semantic categories (space, time), syntax acquisition .
Language and cognition
Interaction of language, culture and cognition in an inter-lingual comparison in non -Indo-European language families without writing . Theoretical approaches to epistemology , language universals, and modularity of mind.
Directors at the institute
- Willem Levelt , head of the project group since 1976, director from 1980 to 2006, retired
- Wolfgang Klein , director from 1980 to 2015, retired
- Anne Cutler , director since 1993, retired
- Stephen C. Levinson , retired since 1994
- Peter Hagoort , since 2006
- Antje Meyer , since 2009
- Simon E. Fisher , since 2010
- Caroline Rowland , since 2019
Infrastructure
The role of management is rotated between the directors every two years. Caroline Rowland is Managing Director from 2019 to 2020 .
In 2019 there were around 200 employees at the institute; in addition, there are third-party funded employees and visiting researchers.
literature
- Max Planck Society (ed.): Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen , series of reports and communications from the Max Planck Society, issue 2000.1, ISSN 0341-7778 (English)
Web links
- Homepage of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
- Publications of the institute in the MPG's eDoc server
- DoBeS Documentation of Threatened Languages
Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 4.5 ″ N , 5 ° 51 ′ 25.6 ″ E