I am interested in how the many pressures acting on humans and their interactions with each other influence the cultural evolution of language. My research mainly involves conducting experiments in which participants either communicate with each other using artificial languages, or must construct new languages from scratch. 

1.     Erol Akcay
   

2.     Dorothy Cheney
   

3.     Robin Clark
   

4.     Charles Epstein
   

5.     Mark Goulian
   

6.     Douglas Jerolmack
   

7.     Joe Kable
   

8.     Randall Kamien 
   

9.     Eleni Katifori
   

10.     Mark Liberman
    

11.     Tim Linksvayer
    

12.     Andrea Liu
    

13.     Alain Plante
    

14.     Joshua Plotkin
    

15.     Gareth Roberts
    

16.     Jeffrey Saven
    

17.     Paul Schmidt
    

18.     Robert Seyfarth
    

19.     Paul Sniegowski
    

20.     Alison Sweeney
    

21.     Rakesh Vohra
    

22.     Jane Willenbring