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| Hurford, J. (2011) The origins of meaning. In Kathleen R. Gibson and Maggie Tallerman, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution. Oxford University Press. |
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| Hurford, J. (2009) Universals and the diachronic life cycle of languages. In Morten Christiansen and Christopher Collins and Shimon Edelman, editors, Language Universals, pages 40--54. Oxford University Press. |
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| Hurford, J. and Dediu, D. (2009) Diversity in Language, Genes and the Language Faculty. In Rudolf Botha and Chris Knight, editors, The Cradle of Language, pages 163--184. Oxford University Press. |
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| Hurford, J. (2008) Niche-construction, co-evolution, and domain-specificity. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31(5):526--526. |
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(5) | Hurford, J. (2008) The evolution of human communication and language. In Patrizia D'Ettorre and David Hughes, editors, Sociobiology of Communication: an interdisciplinary perspective, pages 249--264. Oxford University Press. |
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| Hurford, J. (2005) Computer Modelling Widens the Focus of Language Study. In Tallerman, M., editor, Language Origins: Perspectives on Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
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(26) | Hurford, J. (2003) The Language Mosaic and its Evolution. In M.H. Christiansen and S. Kirby, editors, Language Evolution: The States of the Art. Oxford University Press. |
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| Hurford, J. (2003) Why Synonymy is Rare: Fitness is in the Speaker. In ECAL03, pages 442--451. |
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(10) | Smith, K. and Hurford, J. (2003) Language Evolution in Populations: extending the Iterated Learning Model. In ECAL03, pages 507--516. |
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| Tullo, C. and Hurford, J. (2003) Modelling Zipfian Distributions in Language. In Simon Kirby, editor, Proceedings of Language Evolution and Computation Workshop/Course at ESSLLI, pages 62--75. Vienna. |
| 2002 |
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(7) | Hurford, J. (2002) The Roles of Expression and Representation in Language Evolution. In Alison Wray, editor, The Transition to Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
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(87) | Kirby, S. and Hurford, J. (2002) The Emergence of Linguistic Structure: An overview of the Iterated Learning Model. In Angelo Cangelosi and Domenico Parisi, editors, Simulating the Evolution of Language, pages 121--148. London: Springer Verlag. |
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(28) | Hurford, J. (2002) Expression/induction models of language evolution: dimensions and issues. In Ted Briscoe, editor, Linguistic Evolution through Language Acquisition: Formal and Computational Models. Cambridge University Press. |
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| Hurford, J. (2001) Random Boolean Nets and Features of Language. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 5(2):111--116. |
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| Hurford, J. (2001) Protothought had no logical names. In Jürgen Trabant and Sean Ward, editors, New Essays on the Origins of Language, pages 117--130. Mouton, Berlin. |
| 2000 |
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(39) | Hurford, J. (2000) Social transmission favours linguistic generalization. In Chris Knight and James R. Hurford and Michael Studdert-Kennedy, editors, The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic Form, pages 324--352. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
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(15) | Hurford, J. (2000) The Emergence of Syntax. In Chris Knight and James R. Hurford and Michael Studdert-Kennedy, editors, The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic Form, pages 219--230. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
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(50) | Knight, C., Hurford, J., and Studdert-Kennedy, M. (2000) The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic Form. Cambridge University Press. |
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| Hurford, J. (1999) Functional Innateness: explaining the critical period for language acquisition. In Michael Darnell and Edith Moravscik and Frederick Newmeyer and Michael Noonan and Kathleen Wheatley, editors, Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics, Volume II: Case Studies, pages 341--363. John Benjamins, Amsterdam. |
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| Hurford, J. (1999) Artificially growing a numeral system. In Jadranka Gvozdanovic, editor, Numeral Types and Changes Worldwide, pages 7--41. |
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(12) | Hurford, J. (1999) The Evolution of Language and Languages. In Robin Dunbar and Chris Knight and Camilla Power, editors, The Evolution of Culture, pages 173--193. Edinburgh University Press. |
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| Hurford, J. (1999) Language Learning from Fragmentary Input. In Proceedings of the AISB'99 Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, pages 121--129. |
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(7) | Hurford, J. and Kirby, S. (1999) Co-Evolution of Language Size and the Critical Period. In David Birdsong, editor, Second Language Acquisition and the Critical Period Hypothesis, pages 39--63. Lawrence Erlbaum. |
| 1998 |
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| Hurford, J. (1998) Introduction: The emergence of syntax. In Hurford, J. R. and Studdert-Kennedy, M. and Knight C., editors, Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
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(73) | Hurford, J., Studdert-Kennedy, M., and Knight, C. (1998) Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases. Cambridge University Press. |
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| Hurford, J. (1998) Review of ``The Symbolic Species: The co-evolution of language and the human brain'', by Terrence Deacon, 1997. The Times Literary Supplement, pages 34. |
| 1997 |
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| Hurford, J., Joseph, S., Kirby, S., and Reid, A. (1997) Evolution might select constructivism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 20:567--568. |
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(49) | Kirby, S. and Hurford, J. (1997) Learning, culture and evolution in the origin of linguistic constraints. In P. Husbands and I. Harvey, editors, ECAL97, pages 493--502. MIT Press. |
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| Kirby, S. and Hurford, J. (1997) The evolution of incremental learning: language, development and critical periods. Technical report, Language Evolution and Computation Research Unit, University of Edinburgh. |
| 1995 |
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| Kirby, S. and Hurford, J. (1995) Neural preconditions for proto-language. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 18(1):193--194. |
| 1992 |
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(3) | Hurford, J. (1992) An Approach to the Phylogeny of the Language Faculty. In Hawkins, John A. and Murray Gell-Mann, editors, The Evolution of Human Languages, pages 273--303. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. |
| 1991 |
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(36) | Hurford, J. (1991) The Evolution of the Critical Period for Language Acquisition. Cognition, 40(3):159--201. |
| 1990 |
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| Hurford, J. (1990) Beyond the Roadblock in Linguistic Evolution Studies. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 13(4):736--737. |
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(25) | Hurford, J. (1990) Nativist and functional explanations in language acquisition. In I. M. Roca, editor, Logical Issues in Language Acquisition, pages 85--136. Foris, Dordrecht. |
| 1989 |
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(122) | Hurford, J. (1989) Biological evolution of the Saussurean sign as a component of the language acquisition device. Lingua, 77(2):187--222. |
| 1987 |
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(29) | Hurford, J. (1987) Language and Number: the emergence of a cognitive system. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. |