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In general theoretic pluralism is aimed for. This involves that the research group doesn't want to be restricted to a specific theoretical plan, but on the contrary wants to create room for scientific discussion between several theoretical scopes (traditional linguistics, generative linguistics, cognitive linguistics, discourse-analysis and logic of reasoning, formal pragmatics) and linguistic disciplines (phonology, morphology, syntax, ...

The research of CLiPS is interdisciplinary between linguistics, psychology, and computer science (Artificial Intelligence). Current research can be divided into three main areas: Psycholinguistics, Language Acquisition (coordinator: Steven Gillis). The main research topic is how very young children learn the language they hear. This process actually starts before babies use conventional words and phrases. That is why we study babies' ...