Willem Levelt
Willem Johannes Maria Levelt | |
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Levelt in October 2014 | |
| Born | 17 May 1938 |
| Education | Universiteit Leiden |
| Spouse(s) | Elisabeth, C.M. Jacobs |
| Children | Claartje, Philip, Christiaan |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psycholinguistics |
| Institutions | Nijmegen |
| Thesis | On Binocular Rivalry (1965) |
| Doctoral advisor | Johannes Petrus van de Geer |
| Doctoral students | Peter Hagoort |
| Website | http://www.mpi.nl/people/levelt-pim |
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, of which he has been a member since 1978.