John A. Hawkins, PhD (Cambridge University)
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Linguistics
Psychology, Center for Mind and Brain
Office: 208 Sproul Hall
Telephone: 530-752-9933
Keywords: typology and universals, language processing, second language acquisition, corpus analysis, language and music
Psychology, Center for Mind and Brain
Office: 208 Sproul Hall
Telephone: 530-752-9933
| Email: | jhawkins | @ | ucdavis.edu |
Keywords: typology and universals, language processing, second language acquisition, corpus analysis, language and music
John A. (Jack) Hawkins is Professor of Linguistics at UC Davis, and a member of the Graduate Group in Psychology and of the Center for Mind and Brain. He also holds the Professorship of English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and continues to direct research programs and grants at Cambridge. He has held previous permanent positions at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), the Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen), and the University of Essex (Colchester), and visiting appointments at institutions including UC Berkeley, UCLA, the Free University of Berlin, the University of Potsdam, and the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig).
He has broad and interdisciplinary interests in the language sciences. His current research programs focus on language universals from a processing perspective, on second language acquisition using electronic learner corpora, and on language and music as cognitive systems. In his most recent book, Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004), he presented extensive empirical evidence for the view that principles of language processing derived from experimental and corpus studies on individual languages can be extended to account for grammatical universals and variation patterns across languages. More recent papers in this and other areas can be accessed below.
He is the author or editor of 10 books and over 70 articles, a member of several editorial boards for journals, an executive committee member of the international Association for Language Typology, a past Science Board member at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, and the director or P.I. of numerous past and ongoing research programs and grants.
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