Professor Dr. Colin Bannard

Biography

Colin Bannard is a quantitative cognitive scientist with a focus on data-intensive methods for the study of language, particularly language development. His current research examines language production, exploring how fluent language use requires a balance between context-bound habits and intentional control. Utilizing computational and experimental methods, Bannard investigates the life-span emergence of productive and informative speech, including the impact of conditions such as Parkinson's disease on language use. He received his Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics from the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh and has worked on child language acquisition at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Bannard has previously served as an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, and as a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Liverpool.

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