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Jennifer Culbertson has joined the LEC as a Chancellor’s Fellow. Jenny works on the relationship between biases in language learning biases and typological universals, using artificial language learning and computational modelling techniques. We are very excited to have her on the team – welcome aboard Jenny!
Dr Kenny Smith has been promoted to a Readership in Language Evolution out of the normal cycle of promotions in recognition of his world-leading research in language evolution. Congratulations, Kenny!
Michael Dunn has joined the LEC as our new Professorial Fellow. Michael works on phylogenetic approaches to language and has an appointment at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. He will be working for the University of Edinburgh part-time, developing research collaborations and teaching our postgraduate students. We are very excited to have him join [...]
Chris Sharratt interviews Simon Kirby about his experiences with the Edinburburgh art collective, Found, for the Guardian newspaper. Art and science: ‘different ways of engaging with what matters’
Olga Fehér has joined the LEC on a prestigious Newton Fellowship. Olga is most famous for her research on zebra finches, in which she implemented for the first time an experimentally-controlled analog of cultural transmission of song from an initial non-typical starting point. In essence, this was experimental iterated learning of bird song. You can [...]
There’s a nice overview of the general turn towards experimental approaches in evolutionary linguistics by groups such as the LEC in Science this week. Simon
Prof. Simon Kirby has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh – congratulations Simon!
Kenny Smith has been chosen amongst the first members of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland. The RSE said: “A rigorous selection procedure resulted in 68 young academics, entrepreneurs and professionals being chosen to be the first members in Scotland. The Young Academy will be launched at a ceremony in Edinburgh in [...]
Chrissy Cuskley‘s research concerns the way in which cross-modal connections that we all share might have provided a starting point for the evolution of language by giving a non-arbitrary basis for the eventual evolution of symbols. Her experimental work looking at the connections between various senses and linguistic stimuli is featured on the cover of [...]