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In person

Date & time:

14 Jan 2025, 13:00 – 14:00

Experimental Psychology Seminar - Prof. Kenny Smith

The evolution of linguistic regularities and exceptions

Kenny Smith
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Experimental Psychology Seminar - Prof. Kenny Smith

Professor Kenny Smith

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh

I am the Director of the Centre for Language Evolution in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. I use computational and experimental methods to study the evolution of language and the human capacity for language. I am particularly interested in how languages are shaped by their repeated learning and use, and how this cultural evolutionary process in turn shapes the cognitive capacities underpinning language learning. I have an MA in Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence, an MSc in Cognitive Science, and a PhD in Linguistics, all from the University of Edinburgh. My first faculty position was in Psychology at Northumbria University in 2006, I returned to Edinburgh as a lecturer in 2010, and was promoted to professor in 2017. 

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Organiser

Antonietta Esposito

a.esposito@ucl.ac.uk