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Simon M. Kirby, Ph.D.

Affiliations: 
2000- School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom 
Area:
Origins and evolution of language; cultural evolution; bridging scientific and artistic practice
Website:
http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~simon/
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John A. Hawkins grad student 1992-1995 USC
Jim Hurford grad student 1992-1995 Edinburgh

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Andres Karjus grad student
Thom Scott-Phillips grad student Edinburgh
Bill Thompson grad student (Neurotree)
Kenny Smith grad student 2003 Edinburgh
Christine F Cuskley grad student 2008-2012 Edinburgh
Matthew Spike grad student 2015 Edinburgh
Carmen Saldana grad student 2013-2018 School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences

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Flaherty M, Sato A, Kirby S. (2023) Documenting a Reduction in Signing Space in Nicaraguan Sign Language Using Depth and Motion Capture. Cognitive Science. 47: e13277
Motamedi Y, Wolters L, Schouwstra M, et al. (2022) The Effects of Iconicity and Conventionalization on Word Order Preferences. Cognitive Science. 46: e13203
Motamedi Y, Wolters L, Naegeli D, et al. (2022) From improvisation to learning: How naturalness and systematicity shape language evolution. Cognition. 228: 105206
Schouwstra M, Naegeli D, Kirby S. (2022) Investigating Word Order Emergence: Constraints From Cognition and Communication. Frontiers in Psychology. 13: 805144
Kirby S, Tamariz M. (2021) Cumulative cultural evolution, population structure and the origin of combinatoriality in human language. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 377: 20200319
Karjus A, Blythe RA, Kirby S, et al. (2021) Conceptual Similarity and Communicative Need Shape Colexification: An Experimental Study. Cognitive Science. 45: e13035
Carr JW, Smith K, Culbertson J, et al. (2020) Simplicity and informativeness in semantic category systems. Cognition. 202: 104289
Karjus A, Blythe RA, Kirby S, et al. (2020) Challenges in detecting evolutionary forces in language change using diachronic corpora Glossa: a Journal of General Linguistics. 5: 45
Culbertson J, Schouwstra M, Kirby S. (2020) From the world to word order: deriving biases in noun phrase order from statistical properties of the world Language
Karjus A, Blythe R, Kirby S, et al. (2020) Quantifying the dynamics of topical fluctuations in language Language Dynamics and Change. 10: 86-125
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