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What would we be without language?

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What would science be without language? How would we be able to communicate without language?

 
Our ability to communicate with each other, our ability to organise our thoughts, is really at the heart of what makes us human.

Without language, we would not be able to share knowledge, accumulate knowledge, and exchange information.

These are crucial aspects of modern life. Therefore, it is essential for understanding where we are in modern society and in our culture to really understand the basic capacity that underlines all this, and that is human language.

About the Institute

The Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen is entirely devoted to psycholinguistics – the study of how we produce and understand language, and how we acquire these skills as first or second language learners.

Our MPI is one of the few institutes of the Max Planck Society located outside Germany.

Ever since the Institute was established