Simon Kirby

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  Fluidity and abstraction in mental representations of the nominal phrase

  Culbertson, J. (Principal Investigator) & Kirby, S. (Co-investigator)

  British Academy

  1/05/25 → 30/09/26

  Project: Research

• Finished

  From Natural to Conventional word order; Iconicity, simplicity and the mechanisms of linguistic evolution

  Kirby, S. (Principal Investigator)

  Economic and Social Research Council

  1/07/19 → 31/12/22

  Project: Research

  • Grammatical Function 100%
  • Learning Experiences 100%
  • Initial Position 100%
  • Language Change 100%
  • Beneficial Effect 100%

• From Natural to Conventional word order; Iconicity, simplicity and the mechanisms of linguistic evolution

  Kirby, S. (Principal Investigator)

  ESRC

  1/07/19 → 31/12/22

  Project: Research

  • Cognitive Bias 100%
  • Systematicity 50%
  • Harmony 50%
  • Word order 50%
  • Language Evolution 50%

• Leverhulme artisi in residence film costs

  Kirby, S. (Principal Investigator)

  30/06/17 → 31/03/18

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Residence 100%
  • Hanna 100%
  • Artistic Project 100%

• Artist In Residence - Ms Hanna Tuulikki

  Kirby, S. (Principal Investigator)

  Other

  1/02/17 → 30/11/17

  Project: Research

• NIF for Molly Flaherty: Language evolution in the lab and the field - how new languages trade-off redundancy and efficiency

  Flaherty, M. (Principal Investigator) & Kirby, S. (Co-investigator)

  UK-based charities

  19/12/16 → 2/09/18

  Project: Research

• Emergence and Dynamics of Linguistic Rules Across Complex Populations

  Cuskley, C. (Principal Investigator) & Kirby, S. (Co-investigator)

  Learned Societies

  1/01/16 → 31/01/20

  Project: Research

  • Crossmodal 100%
  • Synesthesia 100%
  • Phoneme 100%
  • Phonological Representation 50%
  • Low Back 16%

• PPLS Pilot Project: Argentine Tango

  Kirby, S. (Principal Investigator)

  15/06/14 → 15/08/14

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• PPLS Pilot Project: Qhimp Qhallenge at Living Links

  Kirby, S. (Principal Investigator)

  30/07/12 → 28/02/13

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• From simple to complex language; extending the iterated learning framework

  Cornish, H. (Principal Investigator) & Kirby, S. (Co-investigator)

  Learned Societies

  1/09/11 → 31/07/13

  Project: Research

• PPLS Pilot Project: Emergence of sues to syntactic category through iterated learning

  Kirby, S. (Principal Investigator)

  17/01/11 → 29/04/11

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Syntactic Category 100%
  • Iterated Learning 100%

• Computational Simulation on Language Evolution

  Kirby, S. (Principal Investigator)

  Learned Societies

  1/09/09 → 31/03/10

  Project: Research

• The emergence and development of structural systematicity in language: an experimental study

  Kirby, S. (Principal Investigator)

  ESRC

  1/02/09 → 16/11/11

  Project: Research

  • Compressibility 100%
  • Language Evolution 62%
  • Cultural Adaptation 60%
  • Complex Sentence 50%
  • Relative Strength 50%

• The emergence of evolutionary thinking in linguistics: towards a new conceptual framework

  Kirby, S. (Principal Investigator)

  AHRC

  1/11/08 → 31/03/12

  Project: Research

  • Compressibility 100%
  • Complex Sentence 50%
  • Causal Factor 50%
  • Relative Strength 50%
  • Fundamental Balance 50%

• Linguistic transmission and the origins of syntactic structure - f/ship Dr S Kirby

  Kirby, S. (Principal Investigator)

  Learned Societies

  15/03/00 → 14/03/03

  Project: Research