Morten H. Christiansen is a Danish cognitive scientist known for his work on the evolution of language, and

connectionist Connectionism refers to both an approach in the field of cognitive science that hopes to explain mental phenomena using artificial neural networks (ANN) and to a wide range of techniques and algorithms using ANNs in the context of artificial int ...

modeling of human language acquisition. He is Professor in the Department of Psychology and Co-Director of the Cognitive Science Program at

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as well Senior Scientist at the Haskins Labs and Professor in the School of Communication and Culture a
Aarhus University
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.

Selected publications

* * 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 arget 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. arget 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.

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