Willem Levelt
| Willem Johannes Maria Levelt | |
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Oct 2014
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| Born |
17 May 1938 Amsterdam |
| Alma mater | Universiteit Leiden |
| Spouse(s) | Elisabeth, C.M. Jacobs |
| Children | Claartje, Philip, Christiaan |
| Website | http://www.mpi.nl/people/levelt-pim |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psycholinguistics |
| Institutions | Nijmegen |
| Thesis | On Binocular Rivalry (1965) |
| Doctoral advisor | Johannes Petrus van de Geer |
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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