Tenure Track Researcher Language In Interaction - University Of Amsterdam

Modeling language

One of the major challenges in current research on the human language system is to unify formal modelling of crucial interactive linguistic activities such as communication, learning and argumentation, with the wide-ranging experimental approaches to language found in psychology and neuroscience.

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