Name Willem Levelt Alma mater Universiteit Leiden | Spouse Elisabeth, C.M. Jacobs | |
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Thesis On Binocular Rivalry (1965) Doctoral advisor Johannes Petrus van de Geer Books Speaking, A History of Psycholinguistics: The Pre, Formal grammars in linguist, Psycholinguistic Applications, Applications in Linguistic Similar People Anne Sinclair, Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, Annette Karmiloff‑Smith, EM Uhlenbeck | ||
Doctoral students Joost Breuker, 57 more |
Willem Johannes Maria (Pim) Levelt (born 17 May 1938 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch psycholinguist. He is an influential researcher of human language acquisition and speech production. He developed a comprehensive theory of the cognitive processes involved in the act of speaking, including the significance of the "mental lexicon". Levelt was the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. He also served as president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, of which he has been member since 1978.

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