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2012
[32]    Caldwell, C. A. and Smith, K. (2012) Cultural Evolution and Perpetuation of Arbitrary Communicative Conventions in Experimental Microsocieties. PLoS ONE, 7(8):e43807.
2011
[31]    Smith, K. (2011) Why formal models are useful for evolutionary linguists. In Kathleen R. Gibson and Maggie Tallerman, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution. Oxford University Press.
[30]    Smith, K. (2011) Learning bias, cultural evolution of language, and the biological evolution of the language faculty. Human Biology, 83(2):261--278.
2010
[29]   (6)Smith, K. and Wonnacott, E. (2010) Eliminating unpredictable variation through iterated learning. Cognition, 116(3):444--449.
2009
[28]    Smith, K. (2009) Evolution of a single gene linked to language. Nature.
2008
[27]   (48)Kirby, S., Cornish, H., and Smith, K. (2008) Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: An experimental approach to the origins of structure in human language. PNAS, 105(31):10681--10686.
[26]   (2)Smith, K. and Kirby, S. (2008) Natural Selection for Communication Favours the Cultural Evolution of Linguistic Structure. In A. D. M. Smith and K. Smith and R. Ferrer-i-Cancho, editors, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, pages 283--290. World Scientific.
[25]   (3)Smith, K., Kalish, M. L., Griffiths, T. L., and Lewandowsky, S. (2008) Cultural transmission and the evolution of human behaviour. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 363(1509):3469--3476.
[24]   (20)Smith, K. and Kirby, S. (2008) Cultural evolution: implications for understanding the human language faculty and its evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 363(1509):3591--3603.
[23]    Smith, A. D. M., Smith, K., and Ferrer-i-Cancho, R. (2008) The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Evolution of Language. Singapore: World Scientific.
[22]   (5)Smith, K. (2008) Is a holistic protolanguage a plausible precursor to language? A test case for a modern evolutionary linguistics. Interaction Studies, 9(1):1--17.
[21]    Smith, K., Kirby, S., and Smith, A. D. M. (2008) The brain plus the cultural transmission mechanism determine the nature of language. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31(5):533--534.
2006
[20]    Cangelosi, A., Smith, A. D. M., and Smith, K. (2006) The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language. Singapore: World Scientific.
[19]    Smith, K. (2006) The protolanguage debate: bridging the gap? In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, pages 315--322.
[18]    Smith, K. (2006) Cultural evolution of language. In K. Brown, editor, The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd Edition), pages 315--322. Elsevier.
[17]   (15)Smith, K., Smith, A. D. M., Blythe, R. A., and Vogt, P. (2006) Cross-situational learning: a mathematical approach. In P. Vogt and Y. Sugita and E. Tuci and C. Nehaniv, editors, Symbol Grounding and Beyond: Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication, pages 31--44. Springer Berlin/Heidelberg.
2005
[16]   (19)Brighton, H., Kirby, S., and Smith, K. (2005) Cultural Selection for Learnability: Three principles underlying the view that language adapts to be learnable. In Tallerman, M., editor, Language Origins: Perspectives on Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
[15]   (31)Brighton, H., Smith, K., and Kirby, S. (2005) Language as an evolutionary system. Physics of Life Reviews, 2(3):177--226.
2004
[14]   (22)Kirby, S., Smith, K., and Brighton, H. (2004) From UG to Universals: linguistic adaptation through iterated learning. Studies in Language, 28(3):587--607.
[13]   (27)Smith, K. (2004) The evolution of vocabulary. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 228(1):127--142.
2003
[12]    Brighton, H., Kirby, S., and Smith, K. (2003) Situated cognition and the role of multi-agent models in explaining language structure. In D. Kudenko and E. Alonso and D. Kazakov, editors, Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Adaptation and Multi-Agent Learning, pages 88--109. Springer.
[11]   (41)Smith, K., Brighton, H., and Kirby, S. (2003) Complex Systems in Language Evolution: the cultural emergence of compositional structure. Advances in Complex Systems, 6(4):537--558.
[10]    Smith, K. (2003) Learning biases and language evolution. In Simon Kirby, editor, Proceedings of Language Evolution and Computation Workshop/Course at ESSLLI, pages 22--31. Vienna.
[9]    Smith, K. (2003) Learning biases for the evolution of linguistic structure: an associative network model. In ECAL03, pages 517--524.
[8]    Smith, K. (2003) Compositionality from culture: the role of environment structure and learning bias. Technical report.
[7]   (14)Smith, K. (2003) The Transmission of Language: models of biological and cultural evolution. PhD thesis, Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, The University of Edinburgh.
[6]   (10)Smith, K. and Hurford, J. (2003) Language Evolution in Populations: extending the Iterated Learning Model. In ECAL03, pages 507--516.
[5]   (57)Smith, K., Kirby, S., and Brighton, H. (2003) Iterated Learning: a framework for the emergence of language. Artificial Life, 9(4):371--386.
2002
[4]   (26)Smith, K. (2002) The cultural evolution of communication in a population of neural networks. Connection Science, 14(1):65--84.
[3]   (13)Smith, K. (2002) Natural selection and cultural selection in the evolution of communication. Adaptive Behavior, 10(1):25--44.
2001
[2]    Smith, K. (2001) The Importance of Rapid Cultural Convergence in the Evolution of Learned Symbolic Communication. In J. Kelemen and P. Sosík, editors, ECAL01, pages 637--640. Prague: Springer.
1999
[1]    Smith, K. (1999) Cognitive linguistics and connectionist models of language acquisition. Master thesis, Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh.

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