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Annual Review of Linguistics

Volume 6, 2020

On Becoming a Physicist of Mind

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In 1976, the German Max Planck Society established a new research enterprise in psycholinguistics, which became the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. I was fortunate enough to be invited to direct this institute. It enabled me, with my background in visual and auditory psychophysics and the theory of formal grammars and automata, to develop a long-term chronometric endeavor to dissect the process of speaking. It led, among other work, to my book (1989) and to my research team's article in “A Theory of Lexical Access in Speech Production” (1999). When I later became president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, I helped initiate the Women for Science research project of the Inter Academy Council, a project chaired by my physicist sister at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. As an emeritus I published a comprehensive (2013). As will become clear, many people inspired and joined me in these undertakings.

Keyword(s): autobiography, chronometry, history, lexical access, Max Planck, psychophysics, speaking
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On Becoming a Physicist of Mind
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