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Kenny SmithSchool of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of EdinburghVerified email at ed.ac.uk
Jennifer CulbertsonProfessor, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of EdinburghVerified email at ed.ac.uk
Morten H. ChristiansenThe William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology, Cornell UniversityVerified email at cornell.edu
Hannah CornishDepartment of Psychology, University of EdinburghVerified email at ed.ac.uk
Marieke SchouwstraAssociate Professor, University of AmsterdamVerified email at uva.nl
Henry BrightonTilburg UniversityVerified email at tilburguniversity.edu
Monica TamarizHeriot-Watt UniversityVerified email at hw.ac.uk
Thomas L. GriffithsProfessor of Psychology and Computer Science, Princeton UniversityVerified email at princeton.edu
Christine CuskleyReader in Language and Cognition, Newcastle UniversityVerified email at ncl.ac.uk
Yasamin MotamediCentre for Language Evolution, the University of EdinburghVerified email at ed.ac.uk
Thom Scott-PhillipsIkerbasque Research Associate, Institute for Logic, Cognition, Language & InformationVerified email at ehu.eus
Bill D. ThompsonUniversity of California, BerkeleyVerified email at berkeley.edu
Tessa VerhoefAssistant Professor, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Leiden UniversityVerified email at liacs.leidenuniv.nl
Graham RitchieGenomics EnglandVerified email at genomicsengland.co.uk
Richard BlytheProfessor of Complex Systems, University of EdinburghVerified email at ed.ac.uk
Nicolas ClaidièreCentre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueVerified email at cnrs.fr
Bart de BoerVrije Universiteit Brussel, AI-labVerified email at arti.vub.ac.be
Andrea RavignaniProfessor, Dept. of Human Neurosciences Sapienza University of RomeVerified email at uniroma1.it
Jon W CarrRoyal Holloway, University of LondonVerified email at rhul.ac.uk
Carmen SaldanaPompeu Fabra UniversityVerified email at upf.edu

Simon Kirby

University of Edinburgh

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language evolution cultural evolution linguistics cognitive science evolutionary linguistics


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Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: An experimental approach to the origins of structure in human language S Kirby, H Cornish, K Smith Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (31), 10681-10686, 2008	1244	2008
Language evolution MH Christiansen, S Kirby OUP Oxford, 2003	983	2003
Function, selection, and innateness: The emergence of language universals S Kirby OUP Oxford, 1999	675	1999
Spontaneous evolution of linguistic structure-an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and irregularity S Kirby IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 5 (2), 102-110, 2001	646	2001
Language evolution: Consensus and controversies MH Christiansen, S Kirby Trends in cognitive sciences 7 (7), 300-307, 2003	639	2003
Compression and communication in the cultural evolution of linguistic structure S Kirby, M Tamariz, H Cornish, K Smith Cognition 141, 87-102, 2015	566	2015
The emergence of linguistic structure: An overview of the iterated learning model S Kirby, JR Hurford Simulating the evolution of language, 121-147, 2002	535	2002
Innateness and culture in the evolution of language S Kirby, M Dowman, TL Griffiths Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (12), 5241-5245, 2007	496	2007
Syntax without natural selection: How compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners S Kirby na, 2000	458	2000
Learning, bottlenecks and the evolution of recursive syntax S Kirby Linguistic evolution through language acquisition: Formal and computational …, 2002	454	2002
Iterated learning: A framework for the emergence of language K Smith, S Kirby, H Brighton Artificial life 9 (4), 371-386, 2003	401	2003
Natural language from artificial life S Kirby Artificial life 8 (2), 185-215, 2002	394	2002
How arbitrary is language? P Monaghan, RC Shillcock, MH Christiansen, S Kirby Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 369 …, 2014	376	2014
Iterated learning and the evolution of language S Kirby, T Griffiths, K Smith Current opinion in neurobiology 28, 108-114, 2014	368	2014
Language evolution in the laboratory TC Scott-Phillips, S Kirby Trends in cognitive sciences 14 (9), 411-417, 2010	310	2010
Cultural evolution: implications for understanding the human language faculty and its evolution K Smith, S Kirby Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 363 …, 2008	248	2008
Signalling signalhood and the emergence of communication TC Scott-Phillips, S Kirby, GRS Ritchie Cognition 113 (2), 226-233, 2009	238	2009
Language as an evolutionary system H Brighton, K Smith, S Kirby Physics of Life Reviews 2 (3), 177-226, 2005	223	2005
Complex systems in language evolution: the cultural emergence of compositional structure K Smith, H Brighton, S Kirby Advances in complex systems 6 (04), 537-558, 2003	221	2003
What sound does that taste? Cross-modal mappings across gustation and audition J Simner, C Cuskley, S Kirby Perception 39 (4), 553-569, 2010	200	2010

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