Morten H. Christiansen (born 1963[1]) is a Danish cognitive scientist known for his work on the evolution of language, and connectionist modeling of human language acquisition.
Professor in the Department of Psychology and Director of the Cognitive Science of Language Lab at Cornell University as well Senior Scientist at the Haskins Labs[2][3] and Professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University.
[1] His research has produced evidence for considering language to be a cultural system that is shaped by general-purpose cognitive and learning mechanisms, rather than from innate language-specific mental structures.
[5][6] In 2021, he became a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
[7] In 2022, he became a foreign member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.