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14 November 2018IMPRS students publish winning article on NEMO Kennislink
For the annual writing course ‘Current Issues in the Language Sciences’ graduate students of the IMPRS for Language Sciences are judged on an article written for the general audience. The winning...
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09 October 2018Variation in vocabulary – The learning, knowledge, and processing of words
The native speakers of a language differ in how many words they know. But what are the effects of variation in vocabulary size on language processing? And why do people differ in their vocabulary size...
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19 June 2018Envisioning language
What are the basic mechanisms of understanding language? Markus Ostarek explored to what extent the comprehension of concrete words like ‘bird’ relies on processes that are otherwise used for visual...
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14 June 2018What do you actually mean?
In everyday life, listeners often hear sentences with which the speaker means something different than what he or she literally said. Johanne Tromp investigated how we recognise and understand these...
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11 June 2018What a speech deficit looks like at the cellular level
Some children never learn to speak as proficiently as expected. In rare cases the cause is a single mutation that has disrupted a gene in the affected child. A gene contains instructions to build a...
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05 March 2018Seeing sounds: researchers uncover molecular clues for synaesthesia
1 in 25 people have synaesthesia, perceiving the world in unusual ways. An experience with one sense automatically leads to perception in another sense: for example, seeing colours when listening to...
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15 December 2017Christine Mohrmann Stipend for Linda Drijvers
On Tuesday 12 December, Linda Drijvers received the Christine Mohrmann Stipend 2017. This stipend is awarded by the Radboud University to promising female PhD candidates to pursue a career in academia...
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29 September 2017IMPRS trio wins first prize for best article in yearly writing course
For the yearly writing course “Current Issues in the Language Sciences”, graduate students of the IMPRS for Languages Sciences are judged on an article written for the general audience. Last Tuesday...
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19 September 2017What people do when conversation lapses into silence
It’s common in conversation for some topic to come to an end, and then for silence to emerge in the place where someone could have said something more. These silences are lapses, and they come about...
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