
Email
Aja Altenhof
Pronouns
she/her
Title
Research Specialist
About
Bio/Description
Aja studied Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania (C' 21) and later earned a MSc in the Evolution of Language and Cognition from the University of Edinburgh. An evolutionary linguist interested in semantics, she is broadly focused how cognitive, linguistic and evolutionary forces interact with the development and acquisition of meaning. Her thesis work at the undergraduate and master's level was aimed at understanding the origin of synonymy.