About Willem Levelt
Born 1938. Willem Levelt is a Dutch linguist, university teacher and psychologist.
Willem Johannes Maria (Pim) Levelt (born 17 May 1938) is a Dutch psycholinguist. He is a 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 Arts and Sciences between 2002 and 2005,
Member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina (since 1993)
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psycholinguist
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Willem Levelt was born on 17 May 1938 in Amsterdam.
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Willem Levelt is a linguist, university teacher and psychologist.
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Willem Levelt is Dutch.
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