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List of works by Simon M. Kirby

A Social Approach to Rule Dynamics Using an Agent-Based Model

scientific article published on 8 March 2018

Adult Learning and Language Simplification

scientific article published on 15 October 2018

Animacy Distinctions Arise from Iterated Learning

Communication increases category structure and alignment only when combined with cultural transmission

scholarly article

Complex Adaptive Systems and the Origins of Adaptive Structure: What Experiments Can Tell Us

Compositional Hierarchical Structure Evolves through Cultural Transmission: An Experimental Study

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Compression and communication in the cultural evolution of linguistic structure

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Contextual predictability shapes signal autonomy

scientific article published on 10 March 2018

Convergent transformation and selection in cultural evolution

scientific article published in 2018

Cross-modal associations and synesthesia: Categorical perception and structure in vowel-color mappings in a large online sample

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Cultural evolution leads to vocal iconicity in an experimental iterated learning task

Cultural evolution of systematically structured behaviour in a non-human primate

scientific article published in December 2014

Cultural evolution: implications for understanding the human language faculty and its evolution

scientific article (publication date: 12 November 2008)

Culture shapes the evolution of cognition

scientific article published on 4 April 2016

Culture: copying, compression, and conventionality

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Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: an experimental approach to the origins of structure in human language

scholarly article

Cumulative cultural evolution, population structure and the origin of combinatoriality in human language

scientific article published in 2021

Designing Studies to Find Early Signals of Efficacy

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

Determining a minimum clinically important difference between treatments for a patient-reported outcome

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Effect of psychological bias separates cultural from biological evolution.

scientific article published on 10 December 2012

Evolving artificial sign languages in the lab: From improvised gesture to systematic sign

scientific article published on 11 July 2019

Evolving building blocks of rhythm: how human cognition creates music via cultural transmission

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High-fidelity copying is not necessarily the key to cumulative cultural evolution: a study in monkeys and children

scientific article published on 05 June 2019

How arbitrary is language?

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Iterated learning and the evolution of language.

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Iterated learning: a framework for the emergence of language

scientific article published in January 2003

Minimal Requirements for the Emergence of Learned Signaling

scientific article published on 14 March 2016

Musical evolution in the lab exhibits rhythmic universals

scientific article (publication date: 19 December 2016)

Phonological and orthographic influences in the bouba-kiki effect.

scientific article published on 24 September 2015

Quantifying the dynamics of topical fluctuations in language

scientific article published in 2020

Self domestication and the evolution of language

scientific article published on 27 March 2018

Sequence Memory Constraints Give Rise to Language-Like Structure through Iterated Learning

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Signalling signalhood and the emergence of communication.

scientific article published on 8 September 2009

Simplicity and informativeness in semantic category systems

scientific article published on 02 June 2020

Song learning as an indicator mechanism: modelling the developmental stress hypothesis.

scientific article published on 27 December 2007

The Cultural Evolution of Structured Languages in an Open-Ended, Continuous World.

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The Seeds of the Noun–Verb Distinction in the Manual Modality: Improvisation and Interaction in the Emergence of Grammatical Categories

scientific article published in 2022

The cognitive roots of regularization in language

scientific article published on 18 December 2018

The cultural evolution of language

scientific article published on 14 September 2015

The emergence of verse templates through iterated learning

scholarly article

Understanding linguistic evolution by visualizing the emergence of topographic mappings

scientific article published in January 2006

What sound does that taste? Cross-modal mappings across gustation and audition.

scientific article published on January 2010

Word meanings evolve to selectively preserve distinctions on salient dimensions.

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Zipf's Law of Abbreviation and the Principle of Least Effort: Language users optimise a miniature lexicon for efficient communication.

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