I'm a lecturer in Language Studies at the University of Stirling.

Research:

I study the cognitive and cultural foundations of language, in order to investigate how language originated and became complex. My areas of research interest include:

  • the evolution of language
  • the cognitive origins of linguistic complexity
  • cross-situational learning
  • grammaticalisation
  • cultural evolution
  • systematicity and regularisation
  • (socio-)cognitive linguistics
More details on my research page.

I'm also an external member of the Language Evolution and Computation Research Unit at the University of Edinburgh, where I previously did my PhD and worked on a number of postdoc projects, before taking up the lectureship in Stirling.

Teaching:

Autumn 2011: Language and Society (LIN 911); Structures of Language (LINP01)
Spring 2012: Foundations of Language (LIN 912); Evolutionary Linguistics (LINP06)

At Edinburgh, I supervised Gareth Roberts, who successfully defended his PhD thesis in August 2010.

Pathfoot Building,
Stirling, FK9 4LA

email: andrew.smith AT stir.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1786 467516

Office Hours 
(Pathfoot B3): 
Mon 11-12, Tue 11-12

Latest News

  • Talk in February at Edinburgh
    On 16 February, I'll be giving a talk to the Linguistic Circle at the University of Edinburgh. It will take place in the Dugald Stewart Building at 4pm. All welcome.
    Posted 5 Jan 2012 08:39 by Andrew Smith
  • New Reflections on Grammaticalisation
    I wrote the website for, and am helping to organise, the New Reflections on Grammaticalisation conference, which is being held in July this year in Edinburgh.
    Posted 5 Jan 2012 08:32 by Andrew Smith
  • Cross-situational Learning Project
    The British Academy has awarded one of their final Small Grants to Martin Doherty (Stirling, Psychology) and me, to carry out experiments on children's use of cross-situational learning. We'll start this work shortly.
    Posted 3 Sep 2011 03:33 by Andrew Smith
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