Notes on Contributors

1. Ben Ambridge is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Liverpool, and a member of the ESRC-funded International Centre of Language and Communicative Development (LuCiD). His research uses experimental methods to study the acquisition of syntax and morphology by first language learners. Ben is co-author (with Elena Lieven) of Child Language Acquisition: Contrasting Theoretical Approaches (2011) and author of PSY-Q (2014).
2. Nathaniel D. Anderson is a graduate student in cognitive psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His interests are in spoken word recognition and production and in measuring their underlying neural processes with optical imaging.
3. Michael A. Arbib is University Professor; Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science; Professor of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Neuroscience, and Psychology; and Director of the ABLE Project (Action, Brain, Language & Evolution) at the University of Southern California. His recent books include How the Brain Got Language: The Mirror System Hypothesis (2012) and Language, Music, and the Brain: A Mysterious Relationship (2013). He is also a board member of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (www.anfarch.org).
4. Clay Beckner received his Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico, and is now a postdoctoral research fellow working on the Wordovators project at the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour (NZILBB, University of Canterbury). His research focuses on the processing of complex linguistic units, including multimorphemic words and "prefabricated" multiword sequences, and the cognitive and social mechanisms of language change.
5. Joan Bybee is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Linguistics at the University of New Mexico. She is Past President of the Linguistic Society of America. Her books and articles focus on theoretical issues in phonology, morphology, grammaticalization, typology, and language change. Her most recent book is Language, Usage and Cognition (2010).
6. Rena Torres Cacoullos is Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at The Pennsylvania State University, and editor-in-chief of Language Variation and Change. Her work combines variationist and usage-based perspectives in the quantitative analysis of Spanish, English, and Greek production data. She is co-principal investigator of the New Mexico Spanish-English Bilingual project.
7. Morten H. Christiansen is Professor in the Department of Psychology and Co-Director of the Cognitive Science Program at Cornell University as well as Senior Scientist at the Haskins Labs, and External Professor in the Department of Language and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark. His research focuses on the interaction between biological and environmental constraints in the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language. Christiansen is the author of more than 150 scientific papers and has edited volumes on connectionist psycholinguistics, language evolution, language universals, and cultural evolution.
8. Alexander Clark is Lecturer in Logic and Linguistics in the Department of Philosophy at King's College London; before that he taught for several years in the Computer Science Department of Royal Holloway, University of London. His research is on unsupervised learning in computational linguistics, grammatical inference, and theoretical and mathematical linguistics.
9. Eve V. Clark, Lyman Professor and Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University, has done extensive research on semantics and pragmatics in early language acquisition. Her recent books include The Lexicon in Acquisition (1993) and First Language Acquisition (2nd edn., 2009). President of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (2011-14), she is a Foreign Member of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.
10. Gary S. Dell is Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and chair of the cognitive science group of the University's Beckman Institute. His research interests include language production, aphasia, and computational models of psycholinguistic processes. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society of Experimental Psychologists, and the Cognitive Science Society.
11. Patricia Donegan is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Her phonological publications deal with the processes that underlie children's mispronunciations, "foreign accent," connected speech, and historical change, and with the interaction of perception and production.
12. Nick C. Ellis is Professor of Psychology, Professor of Linguistics, and Research Scientist in the English Language Institute at the University of Michigan. His research interests include language acquisition, cognition, emergentism, and psycholinguistics. He serves as general editor of Language Learning.
13. Lucy Erickson is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. She is interested in how sensitivity to statistical regularities allows learners to acquire language, and the connection between individual variation in the ability to adapt to statistical structure and individual variation in language outcomes.
14. Daniel L. Everett is Professor of Global Studies and Sociology and Dean of the Arts and Sciences at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He has conducted field research for more than 30 years among Amazonian peoples including the Pirahãs, Banawás, and Waris. He has published on natural language semantics, syntax, morphology, phonology, phonetics, and historical linguistics, though in recent years he has concentrated on how culture, conceived as the social-conceptual arrangement of knowledge, values, actions, and apperceptions, shapes our language, mind, and sense of self.
15. Paul Foulkes is a Professor in the Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York, UK. His interests are in sociophonetics, phonology, forensic speech science, and child language development.
16. T. Givón is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of Oregon, and tribal linguist for the South Ute Indian Tribe. He has worked extensively on syntax, discourse, typology, and historical linguistics.
17. John A. Hawkins is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Davis, and Emeritus Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. He has held previous positions at the University of Southern California, the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, and the University of Essex. He has broad interests in the language sciences and has published widely on language typology and universals, efficiency and complexity in language, psycholinguistics, the Germanic language family, and language change.
18. Jennifer B. Hay is Professor in Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and the founder and director of the New Zealand Institute of Language Brain and Behaviour (NZILBB). She has published articles on morphology, laboratory phonology and sociophonetics. She is one of the principal investigators of the Wordovators project.
19. Paul J. Hopper is Paul Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Carnegie Mellon University. He has been the Collitz Professor at the Linguistic Society of America's Linguistics Institute at UCLA, and a Guggenheim Fellow. He has published works on discourse and grammaticalization.
20. Paul Kay is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Consulting Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University. His research interests include comparative color naming, especially in relation to human perception and cognition.
21. Charles Kemp is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on high-level cognition, and he has developed models of categorization, property induction, word-learning, causal reasoning, similarity, and relational learning.
22. Zoltán Kövecses is Professor of Linguistics at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, where he is head of the cultural linguistics doctoral program. His research interests include metaphor, metonymy, emotion language, and the relationship between metaphoric conceptualization and context.
23. Ping Li received his undergraduate education from Peking University, China, and his graduate training from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, the Netherlands. He did postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Diego, in the Center for Research in Language and the McDonald Pew Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. He took a faculty position at the Chinese University of Hong Kong between 1992 and 1996, and moved to the University of Richmond, VA, in 1996, where he became Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science. He is currently Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, and Information Sciences and Technology, Director of the University Park Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Co-director of the Center for Brain, Behavior, and Cognition, and Co-director of the Advanced Joint Center for the Study of Learning Sciences, at the...