Aslı Özyürek: from postdoc to director
It was the 90s, and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics was still growing into
Watching writers write
How observing the writing process can lead to better writing At the start of the
What I learned about language development during the COVID-19 lockdown – Part III: Bilingualism is what you make of it
Oh, the lockdowns… Thankfully the last one was more than a year ago (at the time of writing), and although it was challenging being at home so much, it also allowed me to spend much more time with my daughter. In my last two posts, I told you about how my then-one-and-a-half-year-old was starting to understand and produce her first sentences. Now a feisty three-year-old, she is talking nonstop and switching between two languages.
Screens and kids: is screen time bad for language development?
Children are born into a world where technology is all around us. This raises questions about children’s screen time habits, and the effects of screen time on their language development. Research suggests that the content as well as how children view screens are important, and that social interaction during screen time is crucial in helping young children learn from videos.
Book language improves your grammar knowledge: an interview with Dr. Saoradh Favier
Dr. Saoradh Favier was a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. She defended her thesis entitled ‘Individual differences in syntactic knowledge and processing: Exploring the role of literacy experience’ on December 10 2020.