Simon Kirby

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1999-2024
Publications (10 Years): 40

Top Topics

Language Learning

Social Influences

Experimental Conditions

Top Venues

Publications

Elizabeth Pankratz, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson
Evaluating the Relative Importance of Wordhood Cues Using Statistical Learning. Cogn. Sci. 48 (3) (2024)
Aislinn Keogh, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson
Predictability and Variation in Language Are Differentially Affected by Learning and Production. Cogn. Sci. 48 (4) (2024)
Matthias Hofer, Simon Kirby, Roger Levy
Simplicity and Informativeness in the Evolution of Combinatorial Structure. CogSci (2023)
Molly Flaherty, Asha Sato, Simon Kirby
Documenting a Reduction in Signing Space in Nicaraguan Sign Language Using Depth and Motion Capture. Cogn. Sci. 47 (4) (2023)
Aislinn Keogh, Elizabeth Pankratz, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson
Does production facilitate learning morphosyntactic generalisations? CogSci (2023)
Fang Wang, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson
Cognitive biases for word order between numeral, classifier and noun. CogSci (2023)
Monica Lynn Do, Simon Kirby, Susan Goldin-Meadow
Regularization of Word Order in the Verb Phrase differs from the Noun Phrase: Evidence from an online silent gesture perception paradigm. CogSci (2022)
Yasamin Motamedi, Lucie Wolters, Marieke Schouwstra, Simon Kirby
The Effects of Iconicity and Conventionalization on Word Order Preferences. Cogn. Sci. 46 (10) (2022)
Jennifer Culbertson, Simon Kirby
Syntactic harmony arises from a domain-general learning bias. CogSci (2022)
Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Kory Wallace Mathewson, Simon Kirby, Stefano V. Albrecht, Kenny Smith
Expressivity of Emergent Languages is a Trade-off between Contextual Complexity and Unpredictability. ICLR (2022)
Annie Holtz, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson
The Influence of Category-specific and System-wide Preferences on Cross-Linguistic Word Order Patterns. CogSci (2022)
Yasamin Motamedi, Lucie Wolters, Danielle Naegeli, Marieke Schouwstra, Simon Kirby
Regularisation, Systematicity and Naturalness in a Silent Gesture Learning Task. CogSci (2021)
Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Tianyu Wang, Kenny Smith
Conceptual similarity and communicative need shape colexification: an experimental study. CoRR (2021)
Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Kory W. Mathewson, Simon Kirby, Stefano V. Albrecht, Kenny Smith
Expressivity of Emergent Language is a Trade-off between Contextual Complexity and Unpredictability. CoRR (2021)
Fang Wang, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson
A Cognitive Bias for Cross-Category Word Order Harmony. CogSci (2021)
Amanda L. Royka, Marieke Schouwstra, Simon Kirby, Julian Jara-Ettinger
I Know You Know I'm Signaling: Novel gestures are designed to guide observers' inferences about communicative goals. CogSci (2021)
Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Tianyu Wang, Kenny Smith
Conceptual Similarity and Communicative Need Shape Colexification: An Experimental Study. Cogn. Sci. 45 (9) (2021)
Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
Communicative need modulates competition in language change. CoRR (2020)
Kenny Smith, Stella Frank, Sara Rolando, Simon Kirby, Jia Loy
Simple kinship systems are more learnable. CogSci (2020)
Yi Ren, Shangmin Guo, Matthieu Labeau, Shay B. Cohen, Simon Kirby
Compositional languages emerge in a neural iterated learning model. ICLR (2020)
Yi Ren, Shangmin Guo, Matthieu Labeau, Shay B. Cohen, Simon Kirby
Compositional Languages Emerge in a Neural Iterated Learning Model. CoRR (2020)
Chiara Semenzin, Vanessa Ferdinand, Simon Kirby
Learning and Production in the Explanation of Regularization Behaviour: a Computational Model. CogSci (2019)
Carmen Saldana, Joël Fagot, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith, Nicolas Claidière
Cumulative cultural evolution in a non-copying task in children and Guinea baboons. CogSci (2019)
Olga Feher, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
Experimental conditions affect how social cues guide the regularisation of unpredictable variation. CogSci (2019)
Christine F. Cuskley, Vittorio Loreto, Simon Kirby
A Social Approach to Rule Dynamics Using an Agent-Based Model. Top. Cogn. Sci. 10 (4) (2018)
Mark Atkinson, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby
Adult Learning and Language Simplification. Cogn. Sci. 42 (8) (2018)
Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
Challenges in detecting evolutionary forces in language change using diachronic corpora. CoRR (2018)
Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
Quantifying the dynamics of topical fluctuations in language. CoRR (2018)
Matthew Spike, Kevin Stadler, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
Minimal Requirements for the Emergence of Learned Signaling. Cogn. Sci. 41 (3) (2017)
Yasamin Motamedi, Marieke Schouwstra, Jennifer Culbertson, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby
The cultural evolution of complex linguistic constructions in artificial sign languages. CogSci (2017)
Marieke Schouwstra, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson
Silent gesture and noun phrase universals. CogSci (2017)
Alan Ks Nielsen, Julia Simner, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
Iconicity vs. Systematicity in Artificial Language Learning. CogSci (2017)
Carmen Saldana, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson
Is the strength of regularisation behaviour uniform across linguistic levels? CogSci (2017)
Vanessa Ferdinand, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
The cognitive roots of regularization in language. CoRR (2017)
John W. Carr, Kenny Smith, Hannah Cornish, Simon Kirby
The Cultural Evolution of Structured Languages in an Open-Ended, Continuous World. Cogn. Sci. 41 (4) (2017)
Marieke Woensdregt, Simon Kirby, Chris Cummins, Kenny Smith
A model of cultural co-evolution of language and mindreading. CogSci (2017)
Jasmeen Kanwal, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson, Simon Kirby
Language-users choose short words in predictive contexts in an artificial language task. CogSci (2017)
Tessa Verhoef, Simon Kirby, Bart de Boer
Iconicity and the Emergence of Combinatorial Structure in Language. Cogn. Sci. 40 (8) (2016)
Marieke Woensdregt, Simon Kirby, Chris Cummins, Kenny Smith
Modelling the co-development of word learning and perspective-taking. CogSci (2016)
Monica Tamariz, Simon Kirby, John W. Carr
Cultural Evolution Across Domains: Language, Technology and Art. CogSci (2016)
Monica Tamariz, Simon Kirby
Culture: Copying, Compression, and Conventionality. Cogn. Sci. 39 (1) (2015)
Catriona Silvey, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
Word Meanings Evolve to Selectively Preserve Distinctions on Salient Dimensions. Cogn. Sci. 39 (1) (2015)
Oyvind Magnussen, Geir Hovland, Morten Ottestad, Simon Kirby
Experimental study on the influence of controller firmware on multirotor actuator dynamics. ROSE (2014)
Olga Feher, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
Social influences on the regularization of unpredictable linguistic variation. CogSci (2014)
Tessa Verhoef, Simon Kirby, Bart de Boer
Emergence of combinatorial structure and economy through iterated learning with continuous acoustic signals. J. Phonetics 43 (2014)
Matthew Spike, Kevin Stadler, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
Learning, Feedback and Information in Self-Organizing Communication Systems. CogSci (2013)
Vanessa Ferdinand, Bill Thompson, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
Regularization behavior in a non-linguistic domain. CogSci (2013)
Catriona Silvey, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
Communication Leads to the Emergence of Sub-optimal Category Structures. CogSci (2013)
Hannah Cornish, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby
Systems from Sequences: an Iterated Learning Account of the Emergence of Systematic Structure in a Non-Linguistic Task. CogSci (2013)
Tessa Verhoef, Simon Kirby, Bart de Boer
Combinatorial structure and iconicity in artificial whistled languages. CogSci (2013)
Kenny Smith, Monica Tamariz, Simon Kirby
Linguistic structure is an evolutionary trade-off between simplicity and expressivity. CogSci (2013)
Liz Irvine, Sean Roberts, Simon Kirby
A robustness approach to theory building: A case study of language evolution. CogSci (2013)
Carrie Theisen-White, Simon Kirby, Jon Oberlander
Integrating the Horizontal and Vertical Cultural Transmission of Novel Communication Systems. CogSci (2011)
Tessa Verhoef, Simon Kirby, Carol Padden
Cultural emergence of combinatorial structure in an artificial whistled language. CogSci (2011)
T. Mark Ellison, Simon Kirby
Measuring Language Divergence by Intra-Lexical Comparison. ACL (2006)
Henry Brighton, Simon Kirby
Understanding Linguistic Evolution by Visualizing the Emergence of Topographic Mappings. Artif. Life 12 (2) (2006)
Simon D. Levy, Simon Kirby
Evolving Distributed Representations for Language with Self-Organizing Maps. EELC (2006)
Kenny Smith, Henry Brighton, Simon Kirby
Complex Systems in Language Evolution: the Cultural Emergence of Compositional Structure. Adv. Complex Syst. 6 (4) (2003)
Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby, Henry Brighton
Iterated Learning: A Framework for the Emergence of Language. Artif. Life 9 (4) (2003)
Simon Kirby
Natural Language From Artificial Life. Artif. Life 8 (2) (2002)
Michael Wheeler, Seth Bullock, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Jason Noble, Mark A. Bedau, Philip Husbands, Simon Kirby, Anil K. Seth
The View From Elsewhere: Perspectives on ALife Modeling. Artif. Life 8 (1) (2002)
Henry Brighton, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
Situated Cognition and the Role of Multi-agent Models in Explaining Language Structure. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems (2002)
Richard Shillcock, Simon Kirby, Scott McDonald, Chris Brew
Filled pauses and their status in the mental lexicon. DiSS (2001)
Henry Brighton, Simon Kirby
The Survival of the Smallest: Stability Conditions for the Cultural Evolution of Compositional Language. ECAL (2001)
Peter M. Todd, Simon Kirby
I Like What I Know: How Recognition-Based Decisions Can Structure the Environment. ECAL (2001)
Simon Kirby
Spontaneous evolution of linguistic structure-an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and irregularity. IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput. 5 (2) (2001)
Simon Kirby
Syntax out of Learning: The Cultural Evolution of Structured Communication in a Population of Induction Algorithms. ECAL (1999)