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From Natural to Conventional word order; Iconicity, simplicity and the mechanisms of linguistic evolution
Kirby, Simon
(Principal Investigator)
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
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Research output
(2)
Project Details
Status
Finished
Effective start/end date
1/07/19
→
31/12/22
Funding
ESRC:
£640,830.00
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Gestures
Medicine & Life Sciences
100%
Systematicity
Arts & Humanities
50%
Evolution of Language
Arts & Humanities
46%
Naturalness
Arts & Humanities
46%
Language
Medicine & Life Sciences
46%
spontaneity
Social Sciences
45%
event
Social Sciences
43%
Linguistics
Medicine & Life Sciences
43%
Research output
Research output per year
2022
2022
2022
2
Article
Research output per year
Research output per year
From improvisation to learning: How naturalness and systematicity shape language evolution
Motamedi, Y.
,
Wolters, L.
,
Naegeli, D.
,
Kirby, S.
&
Schouwstra, M.
,
Nov 2022
,
In:
Cognition.
228
, 105206.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
›
peer-review
Open Access
File
Systematicity
100%
Gestures
98%
Evolution of Language
91%
Naturalness
90%
spontaneity
89%
Investigating word order emergence: Constraints from cognition and communication
Schouwstra, M.
,
Naegeli, D.
&
Kirby, S.
,
22 Apr 2022
,
In:
Frontiers in Psychology.
13
, 805144.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
›
peer-review
Open Access
File
Gestures
100%
cognition
63%
Cognition
61%
Communication
58%
event
43%