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Kenny SmithSchool of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of EdinburghVerified email at ed.ac.uk
Morten H. ChristiansenThe William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology, Cornell UniversityVerified email at cornell.edu
Jennifer CulbertsonProfessor, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of EdinburghVerified email at ed.ac.uk
Hannah CornishDepartment of Psychology, University of EdinburghVerified email at ed.ac.uk
Henry BrightonTilburg UniversityVerified email at tilburguniversity.edu
Marieke SchouwstraAssistant Professor, University of AmsterdamVerified email at uva.nl
Monica TamarizHeriot-Watt UniversityVerified email at hw.ac.uk
Christine CuskleyLecturer in Language and Cognition, Newcastle UniversityVerified email at ncl.ac.uk
Thomas L. GriffithsProfessor of Psychology and Computer Science, Princeton UniversityVerified email at princeton.edu
Thom Scott-PhillipsIkerbasque Research Associate, Institute for Logic, Cognition, Language & InformationVerified email at ehu.eus
Yasamin MotamediCentre for Language Evolution, the University of EdinburghVerified email at ed.ac.uk
Bill D. ThompsonUniversity of California, BerkeleyVerified email at berkeley.edu
Graham RitchieGenomics EnglandVerified email at genomicsengland.co.uk
Tessa VerhoefAssistant Professor, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Leiden UniversityVerified email at ucsd.edu
Nicolas ClaidièreCentre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueVerified email at cnrs.fr
Bart de BoerVrije Universiteit Brussel, AI-labVerified email at arti.vub.ac.be
Richard BlytheProfessor of Complex Systems, University of EdinburghVerified email at ed.ac.uk
Andrea RavignaniResearch Group Leader, Comparative Bioacoustics Group, Max Planck Institute for PsycholinguisticsVerified email at mpi.nl
Jon W CarrRoyal Holloway, University of LondonVerified email at rhul.ac.uk
Julia SimnerUniversity of SussexVerified email at sussex.ac.uk

Simon Kirby

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Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: An experimental approach to the origins of structure in human language S Kirby, H Cornish, K Smith Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (31), 10681-10686, 2008	1117	2008
Language evolution. MH Christiansen, SE Kirby Oxford University Press, 2003	899	2003
Function, selection, and innateness: The emergence of language universals S Kirby OUP Oxford, 1999	623	1999
Language evolution: Consensus and controversies MH Christiansen, S Kirby Trends in cognitive sciences 7 (7), 300-307, 2003	602	2003
Spontaneous evolution of linguistic structure-an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and irregularity S Kirby IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 5 (2), 102-110, 2001	601	2001
The emergence of linguistic structure: An overview of the iterated learning model S Kirby, JR Hurford Simulating the evolution of language, 121-147, 2002	500	2002
Compression and communication in the cultural evolution of linguistic structure S Kirby, M Tamariz, H Cornish, K Smith Cognition 141, 87-102, 2015	462	2015
Syntax without natural selection: How compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners S Kirby na, 2000	459	2000
Innateness and culture in the evolution of language S Kirby, M Dowman, TL Griffiths Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (12), 5241-5245, 2007	458	2007
Learning, bottlenecks and the evolution of recursive syntax S Kirby na 4, 173-203, 2002	438	2002
Iterated learning: A framework for the emergence of language K Smith, S Kirby, H Brighton Artificial life 9 (4), 371-386, 2003	376	2003
Natural language from artificial life S Kirby Artificial life 8 (2), 185-215, 2002	376	2002
Iterated learning and the evolution of language S Kirby, T Griffiths, K Smith Current opinion in neurobiology 28, 108-114, 2014	306	2014
How arbitrary is language? P Monaghan, RC Shillcock, MH Christiansen, S Kirby Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 369 …, 2014	297	2014
Language evolution in the laboratory TC Scott-Phillips, S Kirby Trends in cognitive sciences 14 (9), 411-417, 2010	281	2010
Cultural evolution: implications for understanding the human language faculty and its evolution K Smith, S Kirby Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 363 …, 2008	230	2008
Complex systems in language evolution: the cultural emergence of compositional structure K Smith, H Brighton, S Kirby Advances in complex systems 6 (04), 537-558, 2003	213	2003
Language as an evolutionary system H Brighton, K Smith, S Kirby Physics of Life Reviews 2 (3), 177-226, 2005	205	2005
Signalling signalhood and the emergence of communication TC Scott-Phillips, S Kirby, GRS Ritchie Cognition 113 (2), 226-233, 2009	198	2009
What sound does that taste? Cross-modal mappings across gustation and audition J Simner, C Cuskley, S Kirby Perception 39 (4), 553-569, 2010	189	2010

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