James Hurford | |
|---|---|
| Born | 16 July 1941 (age 83) |
| Education | University College London (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | linguistics |
| Institutions | University of Edinburgh |
| Thesis | The speech of one family : a phonetic comparison of the speech of three generations in a family of East Londoners (1965) |
| Doctoral advisor | J. D O'Connor |
| Other academic advisors | Dennis Fry, A. C. Gimson, Michael Halliday, Gordon Frederick Arnold, Robert M. W. Dixon, John C. Wells, Olive M. Tooley |
| Doctoral students | Philip Carr, Simon M. Kirby |
James Raymond Hurford, FBA (born 16 July 1941) is a retired linguist and academic.[1]
He was the General Editor of the book series Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language,[2] as well as a member of the Centre for Language Evolution (formerly Language Evolution and Computation) research group at the University of Edinburgh where he is an emeritus professor.
He also helped organize the series of International Conferences on the Evolution of Language, of which he was one of the founders.[3]
Hurford was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2015.[4]