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He is also a Senior Investigator in the Multimodal Language and Cognition research group at the Nijmegen Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
This title is outdated. The Max Planck Institute described Dingemanse in 2020 as a former senior investigator, and his current Radboud profile lists him as a professor there instead.
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The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics published an official news item in 2020 calling Mark Dingemanse a "former senior investigator" and saying he was then an associate professor at Radboud University. Radboud's current staff page now lists him as a professor. That contradicts the article's present-tense claim that he is a Senior Investigator at the Max Planck Institute. Even if he retains some affiliation with MPI projects, the specific job title in this sentence is no longer current.
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- Prof. M. Dingemanse (Mark) | Radboud University
Prof. M. Dingemanse (Mark) ... Professor - Centre for Language Studies ... Professor - Department of Language and Communication
- Heineken Young Scientists Award 2020 in Humanities awarded to Mark Dingemanse | Max Planck Institute
The MPI is proud and happy to announce that former senior investigator - and now associate professor at Radboud University - Mark Dingemanse has been awarded the Heineken Young Scientists Award 2020 in Humanities.
presence of the word "huh" in all human languages
This misstates the research. Dingemanse’s work was not that the literal English word “huh” occurs in every language, but that a short *huh-like* repair interjection or equivalent appears cross-linguistically.
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Mark Dingemanse's own FAQ on the study explicitly says: "Our claim is not about the three letters 'huh?', nor is it about the precise phonetic shape [huh], nor is it about the English word 'huh?'". The claim of the paper is instead that spoken languages appear to have a short repair initiator with similar form and function. The Max Planck Institute's own description of the Ig Nobel also phrases the finding as the word "'huh?' (or its equivalent) seems to exist in every human language". So the Wikipedia text is inaccurate in saying the work showed the literal word "huh" is present in all human languages.
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- Frequently Asked Questions - Is 'huh?' a universal word?
Our claim is not about the three letters 'huh?', nor is it about the precise phonetic shape [huh], nor is it about the English word 'huh?'.
- Heineken Young Scientists Award 2020 in Humanities awarded to Mark Dingemanse | Max Planck Institute
In 2015 he and two colleagues were awarded an Ig Nobel Prize "for discovering that the word 'huh?' (or its equivalent) seems to exist in every human language".
He is an associate professor in Language and Communication at the Centre for Language Studies of Radboud University Nijmegen.
This is outdated. Radboud University now lists Mark Dingemanse as a professor, not an associate professor.
Full reasoning
Radboud University's current staff profile for Mark Dingemanse identifies him as "Professor - Centre for Language Studies" and "Professor - Department of Language and Communication." Radboud also published a news item stating that as of September 1, 2025, he was appointed Professor of AI: Language diversity and communication technologies. So the Wikipedia text's present-tense statement that he is an associate professor is no longer accurate.
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- Prof. M. Dingemanse (Mark) | Radboud University
Prof. M. Dingemanse (Mark) ... Professor - Centre for Language Studies ... Professor - Department of Language and Communication
- Mark Dingemanse appointed Professor of AI: Language diversity and communication technologies | Radboud University
As of September 1, 2025, Mark Dingemanse has been appointed Professor of AI: Language diversity and communication technologies at the Faculty of Arts.