Jim Hurford is Professor of Linguistics at Edinburgh University, and
co-Director (with Simon Kirby) of its Language Evolution and Computation
research unit (LEC). He has a broad interest in reconciling various
traditions in Linguistics which have tended to conflict. In particular, he
has worked on articulating a framework in which formal representation of
grammars in individual minds interacts with statistical properties of
language as used in communities. The framework emphasizes the interaction
of evolution, learning and communication. He is best known for his
computer simulations of various aspects of the evolution of language.
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