RESEARCH
- Evolution of language and the language faculty
- Language as a complex adaptive system
- Iterated learning and evolutionary theory
- Quantitative approaches to the lexicon
- Computational techniques for reconstruction of linguistic
phylogenies
- Functionalism and formalism in linguistic theory
- Explanations for language universals based on processing
and acquisition
- Computational models of biological, social and cultural
systems (Alife)
- Machine learning, multi-agent systems, and evolutionary
computation
- Models of the evolution of music
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TEACHING
- MSc in The Evolution
of Language and Cognition
- Honours/MSc course on Simulating Language
- MSc course on Foundations of
Evolution
- MSc course on Current Issues in Language Evolution
- Undegraduate course on Language and Communication
- Language Evolution
and Computation course taught in Helsinki 2003
- PhD students:
- Current:
Erin Brown,
Christine Cuskley,
Hannah Cornish,
Dave Hawkey,
Stefan Hoefler,
Anna Martowicz,
Graham Ritchie,
Thom Scott-Phillips,
Jennifer Sullivan,
Carrie Theisen,
James Thomas
- Past:
Henry Brighton,
Dan Dediu,
Anna Parker,
Joseph Poulshock,
Andrew Smith,
Kenny Smith,
Monica Tamariz,
Viktor Tron,
Daniel Wedgwood,
Hajime Yamauchi,
Jelle Zuidema
SELECTED LECTURES
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