10 Facts About Willem Levelt

Willem Levelt is a researcher of human language acquisition and speech production.

Willem Levelt developed a comprehensive theory of the cognitive processes involved in the act of speaking, including the significance of the "mental lexicon".

Willem Levelt 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.

Willem Levelt worked experimentally for five months under Albert Michotte at the University of Louvain.

Willem Levelt then spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Center for Cognitive Studies.

Since 1966, Willem Levelt taught and researched at the University of Illinois, the University of Groningen and the Radboud University Nijmegen.

From 1971 to 1972, Willem Levelt remained a member of the Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, New Jersey.

From 1976, Willem Levelt headed the newly founded project group for psycholinguistics at the Max Planck Society in Nijmegen.

In psycholinguistics, Willem Levelt is best known for his model of language production.

In June 1963, Willem Levelt married the musician Elisabeth Jacobs, with whom he had three children.