Morten_H._Christiansen

Morten H. Christiansen

Morten H. Christiansen

Danish neurolinguist and cognitive scientist

Morten H. Christiansen is a Danish cognitive scientist known for his work on the evolution of language, and connectionist modeling of human language acquisition. He is Professor in the Department of Psychology and Co-Director of the Cognitive Science Program at Cornell University as well Senior Scientist at the Haskins Labs and Professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University.[1] His research has produced evidence for considering language to be a cultural system that is shaped by general-purpose cognitive and learning mechanisms, rather than from innate language-specific mental structures.[2][3]

Selected publications

  • Christiansen, Morten H. (2022). The language game : how improvisation created language and changed the world. Nick Chater. New York. ISBN 978-1-5416-7498-1. OCLC 1250200719.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (2016). Creating language: Integrating evolution, acquisition, and processing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (2016). The Now-or-Never bottleneck: A fundamental constraint on language. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 39, e62 [target article]
  • Richerson, P.J. & Christiansen, M.H. (Eds.) (2013).Cultural evolution: Society, technology, language and religion. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (2008). Language as shaped by the brain. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 31, 489-558. [target article]
  • Christiansen, M.H., Collins, C. & Edelman, S. (Eds.) (2009). Language universals. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Christiansen, M.H. & Kirby, S. (Eds.) (2003). Language evolution. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.
  • Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (Eds.) (2001). Connectionist psycholinguistics. Westport, CT: Ablex.

References

  1. [1]
    "Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory". cnl.psych.cornell.edu. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  2. [2]
    "Listening to the Sound of Words for Subtle Clues to Their Meaning". 2 August 2006.
  3. [3]
    "Home | Cornell Chronicle".
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