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

Status	Finished
Effective start/end date	1/07/19 → 31/12/22

Funding

ESRC: £640,830.00

2 Article
1 Conference contribution

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

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Syntactic harmony arises from a domain-general learning bias
Culbertson, J. & Kirby, S., 17 Jun 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Culbertson, J., Perfors, A., Rabagliati, H. & Ramenzoni, V. (eds.). eScholarship University of California, p. 1519-1525 (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society; vol. 44).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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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

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