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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
Overview
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Research output
(2)
Project Details
Status
Finished
Effective start/end date
1/07/19
→
31/12/22
Funding
Economic and Social Research Council:
£640,829.93
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Grammatical Function
Computer Science
100%
Learning Experiences
Computer Science
100%
Initial Position
Computer Science
100%
Language Change
Computer Science
100%
Beneficial Effect
Computer Science
100%
High Proportion
Computer Science
100%
Language Development
Computer Science
100%
Signed Language
Computer Science
100%
Research output
Research output per year
2025
2025
2025
2
Article
Research output per year
Research output per year
Manual wh-signs and English wh-mouthings differentiate BSL content and polar questions
Hodge, G.
, Manrique, E., Winter, B. & Cormier, K.,
28 Feb 2025
, (E-pub ahead of print)
In:
Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences.
43 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
›
peer-review
Open Access
File
Corpus
100%
Signed Language
100%
polar questions
100%
Head Movement
100%
Eyebrow
100%
Variability and learning in language change: The case of V2
Meisezahl, M.,
Kirby, S.
&
Culbertson, J.
,
2025
,
In:
Journal of Historical Syntax.
9
,
2-10
,
38 p.
, 6.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
›
peer-review
Open Access
File
High Proportion
100%
Grammatical Function
100%
Learning Experiences
100%
Language Change
100%
Language Development
100%