Mark Dingemanse ( Middelburg, Zeeland, the Netherlands, 1983) is a

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linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

and an Africanist. He is an associate professor in Language and Communication at the Centre for Language Studies of

Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, nl, Radboud Universiteit , formerly ''Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen'') is a public research university located in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The university bears the name of Saint Radboud, a 9th century ...

. Dingemanse obtained a MA degree in

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and Cultures at Leiden University in 2006, and a PhD degree in arts in 2011 at Radboud University Nijmegen. He is also a Senior Investigator in the Multimodal Language and Cognition research group at the Nijmegen

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (German: ''Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik''; Dutch: ''Max Planck Instituut voor Psycholinguïstiek'') is a research institute situated on the campus of Radboud University Nijmegen located ...

. Dingemanse performed linguistic fieldwork in eastern

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and did

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on various languages. He is

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of the research programme Elementary Particles of Conversation, on the small words in everyday language. The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences awarded Dingemans a Heineken Young Scientists Award in 2020.

Publications

Dingemanse published many scholarly papers, including: * ''The body in

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: a linguistic study'', MA Thesis, Leiden University, eiden 2006. * ''The meaning and use of

ideophone Ideophone is a word class evoking ideas in sound imitation or onomatopoeia to express action, manner of property. Ideophone is the least common syntactic category cross-linguistically occurring mostly in African, Australian and Amerindian langua ...

s in Siwu'', PhD thesis, Radboud University Nijmegen, 24 October 2011. * with Majid, Asifa: The semantic structure of sensory vocabulary in an African language, in ''Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the

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Vol. 34'' (CogSci2012), eScholarship, University of California, 2012, pp. 300–306. * with Francisco Torreira, and N. J. Enfield: Is "Huh?" a Universal Word? Conversational Infrastructure and the Convergent Evolution of Linguistic Items, '' PLOS One'', 2013. * with Liesenfeld, A.: From text to talk: Harnessing conversational corpora for humane and diversity-aware language technology, in ''Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the

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(Volume 1: Long Papers)'', 5614–5633, 2022, doi: 10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.385. * with Heesen, R., et al.: Coordinating social action: A primer for the cross-species investigation of communicative repair, '' Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences'', 377(1859), 2022. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0110.

External links

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References

1983 births Dutch Africanists Leiden University alumni Linguists from the Netherlands Linguists of Yoruba Living people People from Middelburg, Zeeland Psycholinguists Radboud University Nijmegen alumni Academic staff of Radboud University Nijmegen {{Netherlands-academic-bio-stub