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This is the page of the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics (UiL-OTS), featuring activities, news, ever Why can language not vary in an infinite number of ways?

How does a baby discover which sounds belong to its native language? How do children in a bilingual family keep the two languages apart? What is special about the way they pronounce the 'r' in the Dutch Gooi region, and who uses this pronunciation? What happens in the human brain after a stroke, or in the brain of children with dyslexia? What do Chinese and French have in common? How can we improv  ...