Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
I am interested in the evolution of communication, human language and the human capacity for language.
Websites
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), The University of Edinburgh
Award Date: 1 Jan 2003
Master of Science, The University of Edinburgh
Award Date: 1 Jan 1999
Master of Arts, The University of Edinburgh
Award Date: 1 Jan 1998
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Communicative pressures shape language during communication (not learning): Evidence from case-marking in artificial languages
Smith, K. & Culbertson, J., Oct 2025, In: Cognition. 263, 24 p., 106164.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Many mickles make a muckle: Evidence that gender stereotypes re-emerge spontaneously via cultural evolution
Dallimore, C. J., Smith, K., Hutchison, J., Slessor, G. & Martin, D., 3 Jun 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Perspective-taking in a language game
Nedergaard, J. & Smith, K., Jan 2024, In: PLoS ONE. 19, 1, 35 p., e0288330.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Coordination, rather than pragmatics, shapes colexification when the pressure forefficiency is low.
Koshevoy, A., Dautriche, I., Morin, O. & Smith, K., 2024, Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Samuelson, L. K., Frank, S., Toneva, M., Mackey, A. & Hazeltine, E. (eds.). eScholarship University of California, Vol. 46. p. 1748-1754 7 p. (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society; vol. 46).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Representations as language: An information-theoretic framework for interpretability
Conklin, H. & Smith, K., 2024, Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Samuelson, L. K., Frank, S., Toneva, M., Mackey, A. & Hazeltine, E. (eds.). eScholarship University of California, Vol. 46. p. 1129-1136 8 p. (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society; vol. 46).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Activities
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Find Out Fridays
Tal, S. (Advisor) & Smith, K. (Advisor)
15 Nov 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Festival/Exhibition
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Agreement marking can benefit child learners
Tal, S. (Speaker), Smith, K. (Contributor) & Culbertson, J. (Contributor)
2024Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Agreement marking can benefit child learners
Tal, S. (Speaker), Smith, K. (Contributor) & Culbertson, J. (Contributor)
2024Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Communicative efficiency is present in young children and becomes more adult-like with age
Tal, S. (Speaker), Smith, K. (Contributor), Arnon, I. (Contributor) & Culbertson, J. (Contributor)
2024Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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New Scientist Instant Expert: Understanding your brain
Culbertson, J. (Invited speaker) & Smith, K. (Invited speaker)
29 Apr 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Language learning, communication and the emergence of phonotactic constraints
Ota, M. (Principal Investigator) & Smith, K. (Co-investigator)
Economic and Social Research Council
1/03/24 → 31/10/26
Project: Research
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PPLS Small Project Grant: Did partial hearing loss shape Australian phonology? An empirical test using artificial language learning.
Smith, K. (Principal Investigator)
1/01/23 → 31/07/23
Project: University Awarded Project Funding
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Language Evolves schools workshops
Smith, K. (Principal Investigator) & Culbertson, J. (Principal Investigator)
1/12/18 → 14/10/20
Project: University Awarded Project Funding
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Establishing how intergroup bias influences the formation and evolution of stereotypes
Smith, K. (Principal Investigator)
1/11/17 → 31/08/20
Project: Research
Datasets
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Example videos from Motamedi-Mousavi (2017). Artificial sign language learning: a method for evolutionary linguistics.
Motamedi-Mousavi, Y. (Creator), Kirby, S. (Supervisor), Smith, K. (Supervisor) & Schouwstra, M. (Supervisor), Edinburgh DataShare, 11 Jan 2017
DOI: 10.7488/ds/1693, https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/23504
Dataset
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Evolving artificial sign languages in the lab: from improvised gesture to systematic sign (dataset)
Motamedi-mousavi, Y. (Creator), Schouwstra, M. (Creator), Smith, K. (Creator), Culbertson, J. (Creator) & Kirby, S. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 27 Sept 2018
DOI: 10.7488/ds/2447
Dataset
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The noun-verb distinction in silent gesture
Motamedi-mousavi, Y. (Creator), Smith, K. (Creator), Schouwstra, M. (Creator) & Kirby, S. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 5 Oct 2018
DOI: 10.7488/ds/2451
Dataset
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Data for Smith, Perfors, Feher, Samara, Swoboda & Wonnacott (forthcoming), ”Language learning, language use, and the evolution of linguistic variation”, to appear in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (forthcoming as of 9th August 2016)
Smith, K. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 16 Aug 2016
DOI: 10.7488/ds/1462
Dataset
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The emergence of systematic argument distinctions in artificial sign languages (dataset)
Culbertson, J. (Creator), Kirby, S. (Creator), Smith, K. (Creator), Motamedi-mousavi, Y. (Creator) & Schouwstra, M. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 19 Jun 2020
DOI: 10.7488/ds/2852, https://psyarxiv.com/p6zy4/
Dataset
Press/Media
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Baboons, like humans, can build on work of others, according to study by Drs Simon Kirby and Kenny Smith
5/11/14 → 15/11/14
17 items of Media coverage, 1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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Research on the origin and purpose of stereotypes highlighted by advertisement protesting name of Washington Redskins American Football team
11/06/14
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities