Willem Levelt

Willem Johannes Maria Levelt
Oct 2014
Born	(1938-05-17)May 17, 1938 Amsterdam
Fields	Psycholinguistics
Institutions	Nijmegen
Alma mater	Universiteit Leiden
Thesis	On Binocular Rivalry (1965)
Doctoral advisor	Johannes Petrus van de Geer
Doctoral students	Joost Breuker, 57 more[1]
Spouse	Elisabeth, C.M. Jacobs
Children	Claartje, Philip, Christiaan
Website http://www.mpi.nl/people/levelt-pim

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.^[2]

Publications

• An introduction to the theory of formal languages and automata (PDF). Formal grammars in linguistics and psycholinguistics 1. The Hague: Mouton. 1974. 

• Applications in linguistic theory (PDF). Formal grammars in linguistics and psycholinguistics 2. The Hague: Mouton. 1974. 

• Psycholinguistic applications (PDF). Formal grammars in linguistics and psycholinguistics 3. The Hague: Mouton. 1974. 

• Speaking: From Intention to Articulation. 1993. 
• A History of Psycholinguistics: The Pre-Chomskyan Era (PDF). 2012. 

About Pim Levelt

• Taylor, M. Martin; Taylor, Insup (1990). "Speaking: From Intention to Articulation Willem J.M. Levelt (review)" (PDF). Computational Linguistics 16 (1): 52–56. Retrieved 2013-01-07. 
• "Levelt honoured with 'Bundesverdienstkreuz mit Stern'". Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. 3 April 2012. Retrieved 2013-01-07. 

References

External links

• Willem Levelt's résumé published by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
• Willem Levelt at the Mathematics Genealogy Project