Kenny Smith Linguistics and English Language, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Room 1.14, Dugald Stewart Building, 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AD Email: kenny@ling.ed.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)131 650 3956 (Formerly Department of Psychology, Northumbria University) Research InterestsI am interested in the evolution of communication, human language and the human capacity for language. My specific areas of interest include:
I am a member of the RSE Young Academy of Scotland, and an external member of the Centre for the Coevolution of Biology and Culture at Durham University, under the Innovation and Social Learning theme. PublicationsThesisTeachingI am supervising Sean Roberts, Justin Sulik, Vanessa Ferdinand and Bill Thompson on their PhDs. Jennifer Sturm did her PhD with me at Northumbria, on non-adjacent dependency learning and domain-specificity. I teach Foundations of Evolution, a Masters-level introduction to evolutionary theory, primarily intended for students on the MSc Evolution of Language and Cognition. Personal StuffI was a student at the University of Edinburgh from 1994-2003, where I studied for an MA in Artificial Intelligence and Linguistics, an MSc in Cognitive Science and a PhD in the Language Evolution and Computation Research Unit. I was a postdoc in the LEC from October 2002 to September 2006, funded by various grants and fellowships, then a lecturer in Psychology at Northumbria University, before returning to the LEC in the summer of 2010 on a lectureship. Links
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