Jennifer Culbertson

Jennifer Culbertson is a professor in the department of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh. She is a founding member of the Centre for Language Evolution, with her research focusing on how typological universals are shaped by properties of human cognition. Culbertson is best known for her work investigating universals of word order and morphological categories using the experimental method of Artificial Language Learning.

Culbertson gained her PhD in 2010 from Johns Hopkins University, with her dissertation being awarded the Robert J. Glushko Prize for Outstanding Dissertations in Cognitive Science. After taking up a Chancellor’s Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh, she gained the role of reader in 2018. She was chosen for the Young Academy of Europe in 2019, She is a member of the Cognitive Science Society, and was a co-chair of the 2022 Toronto conference. Provided by Wikipedia