Simon Kirby

ScholarGPS® ID: 17055329154245

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University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Social Sciences

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Psychology

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133

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Predictability and Variation in Language Are Differentially Affected by Learning and Production (journal article) Keogh, Aislinn \| Kirby, Simon \| Culbertson, Jennifer Cognitive Science, volume 48, issue 4 (2024). 10.1111/cogs.13435 Cite \| Source
Cultural evolution creates the statistical structure of language (journal article) Arnon, Inbal \| Kirby, Simon Scientific Reports, volume 14, issue 1 (2024). 10.1038/s41598-024-56152-9 Cited by (2) \| Cite \| Source
Evaluating the Relative Importance of Wordhood Cues Using Statistical Learning (journal article) Pankratz, Elizabeth \| Kirby, Simon \| Culbertson, Jennifer Cognitive Science, volume 48, issue 3 (2024). 10.1111/cogs.13429 Cite \| Source
Documenting a Reduction in Signing Space in Nicaraguan Sign Language Using Depth and Motion Capture (journal article) Flaherty, Molly \| Sato, Asha \| Kirby, Simon Cognitive Science, volume 47, issue 4 (2023). 10.1111/cogs.13277 Cited by (1) \| Cite \| Source
From improvisation to learning: How naturalness and systematicity shape language evolution (journal article) Motamedi, Yasamin \| Wolters, Lucie \| Naegeli, Danielle \| Kirby, Simon \| Schouwstra, Marieke Cognition, volume 228 (2022). 10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105206 Cited by (3) \| Cite \| Source
The Effects of Iconicity and Conventionalization on Word Order Preferences (journal article) Motamedi, Yasamin \| Wolters, Lucie \| Schouwstra, Marieke \| Kirby, Simon Cognitive Science, volume 46, issue 10 (2022). 10.1111/cogs.13203 Cited by (1) \| Cite \| Source
Adjective position and referential efficiency in American Sign Language: Effects of adjective semantics, sign type and age of sign exposure (journal article) Rubio-Fernandez, Paula \| Wienholz, Anne \| Ballard, Carey M. \| Kirby, Simon \| Lieberman, Amy M. Journal of Memory and Language, volume 126 (2022). 10.1016/j.jml.2022.104348 Cited by (2) \| Cite \| Source
Investigating Word Order Emergence: Constraints From Cognition and Communication (journal article) Schouwstra, Marieke \| Naegeli, Danielle \| Kirby, Simon Frontiers in Psychology, volume 13 (2022). 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.805144 Cite \| Source
The Seeds of the Noun–Verb Distinction in the Manual Modality: Improvisation and Interaction in the Emergence of Grammatical Categories (journal article) Motamedi, Yasamin \| Montemurro, Kathryn \| Abner, Natasha \| Flaherty, Molly \| Kirby, Simon \| Goldin-Meadow, Susan Languages, volume 7, issue 2, pages 95- (2022). 10.3390/languages7020095 Cited by (2) \| Cite \| Source
The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines (journal article) Whiten, Andrew \| Biro, Dora \| Bredeche, Nicolas \| Garland, Ellen C. \| Kirby, Simon Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, volume 377, issue 1843 (2022). 10.1098/rstb.2020.0306 Cited by (23) \| Cite \| Source
Cumulative cultural evolution, population structure and the origin of combinatoriality in human language (journal article) Kirby, Simon \| Tamariz, Monica Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, volume 377, issue 1843 (2022). 10.1098/rstb.2020.0319 Cited by (12) \| Cite \| Source
The emergence of systematic argument distinctions in artificial sign languages (journal article) Motamedi, Yasamin \| Smith, Kenny \| Schouwstra, Marieke \| Culbertson, Jennifer \| Kirby, Simon Journal of Language Evolution, volume 6, issue 2, pages 77-98 (2021). 10.1093/jole/lzab002 Cited by (6) \| Cite \| Source
Conceptual Similarity and Communicative Need Shape Colexification: An Experimental Study (journal article) Karjus, Andres \| Blythe, Richard A. \| Kirby, Simon \| Wang, Tianyu \| Smith, Kenny Cognitive Science, volume 45, issue 9 (2021). 10.1111/cogs.13035 Cited by (9) \| Cite \| Source
Cultural evolution leads to vocal iconicity in an experimental iterated learning task (journal article) Erben Johansson, Niklas \| Carr, Jon W \| Kirby, Simon Journal of Language Evolution, volume 6, issue 1, pages 1-25 (2021). 10.1093/jole/lzab001 Cited by (9) \| Cite \| Source
Constituent order in silent gesture reflects the perspective of the producer (journal article) Kirton, Fiona \| Kirby, Simon \| Smith, Kenny \| Culbertson, Jennifer \| Schouwstra, Marieke Journal of Language Evolution, volume 6, issue 1, pages 54-76 (2021). 10.1093/jole/lzaa010 Cited by (3) \| Cite \| Source
Is Regularization Uniform across Linguistic Levels? Comparing Learning and Production of Unconditioned Probabilistic Variation in Morphology and Word Order (journal article) Saldana, Carmen \| Smith, Kenny \| Kirby, Simon \| Culbertson, Jennifer Language Learning and Development, volume 17, issue 2, pages 158-188 (2021). 10.1080/15475441.2021.1876697 Cited by (7) \| Cite \| Source
Simplicity and informativeness in semantic category systems (journal article) Carr, Jon W. \| Smith, Kenny \| Culbertson, Jennifer \| Kirby, Simon Cognition, volume 202 (2020). 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104289 Cited by (24) \| Cite \| Source
Do all aspects of learning benefit from iconicity? Evidence from motion capture (journal article) Sato, Asha \| Schouwstra, Marieke \| Flaherty, Molly \| Kirby, Simon Language and Cognition, volume 12, issue 1, pages 36-55 (2020). 10.1017/langcog.2019.37 Cited by (1) \| Cite \| Source
Quantifying the dynamics of topical fluctuations in language (journal article) Karjus, Andres \| Blythe, Richard A. \| Kirby, Simon \| Smith, Kenny Language Dynamics and Change, volume 10, issue 1, pages 86-125 (2020). 10.1163/22105832-01001200 Cited by (9) \| Cite \| Source
Challenges in detecting evolutionary forces in language change using diachronic corpora (journal article) Karjus, Andres \| Blythe, Richard A. \| Kirby, Simon \| Smith, Kenny Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, volume 5, issue 1 (2020). 10.5334/gjgl.909 Cited by (9) \| Cite \| Source