Kenny Smith
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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