Anna Jon-And

I am a senior lecturer of Portuguese with specialization in linguistics. I do research at the interdisciplinary Centre for Cultural Evolution, where I am also the director. My research interests involve different aspects of language evolution. I am interested in understanding the cognitive mechanisms underlying human linguistic abilities and general mechanisms of language change, related to demographic, social and language-internal dynamics. I work collaboratively in the field of cultural evolution, which allows for studying language together with other aspects of human culture and integrating perspectives and methods from other disciplines, including for example psychology, biology, sociology, mathematics, machine learning, and complex systems.