| 2011 |
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| Kirby, S. (2011) Language is an adaptive system: the role of cultural evolution in the origins of structure. In Kathleen R. Gibson and Maggie Tallerman, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution. Oxford University Press. |
| 2010 |
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(10) | Scott-Phillips, T. C. and Kirby, S. (2010) Language evolution in the laboratory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. |
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(4) | Theisen, C. A., Oberlander, J., and Kirby, S. (2010) Systematicity and arbitrariness in novel communication systems. Interaction Studies, 11(1):14--32. |
| 2009 |
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| Christiansen, M. H., Chater, N., Griffiths, T. L., and Kirby, S. (2009) Cultural Evolution of Language: Implications for Cognitive Science. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. |
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(58) | Christiansen, M. H. and Kirby, S. (2009) Language Evolution. In Larry R. Squire, editor, Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, pages 321 -- 327. Oxford: Academic Press. |
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(1) | Cornish, H., Tamariz, M., and Kirby, S. (2009) Complex Adaptive Systems and the Origins of Adaptive Structure: What Experiments Can Tell Us. Language Learning, 59(s1):187--205. |
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| Jaeger, H., Baronchelli, A., Briscoe, E., Christiansen, M. H., Griffiths, T. L., Jaeger, G., Kirby, S., Komarova, N. L., Richerson, P. J., Steels, L., and Triesch, J. (2009) What can mathematical, computational and robotic models tell us about the origins of syntax? In Derek Bickerton and Eors Szathmary, editors, Biological Foundations and Origin of Syntax. MIT Press. |
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(12) | Scott-Phillips, T. C., Kirby, S., and Ritchie, G. R. S. (2009) Signalling signalhood and the emergence of communication. Cognition, 113(2):226--233. |
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| Theisen, C., Oberlander, J., and Kirby, S. (2009) Systematicity and arbitrariness in novel communication systems. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. |
| 2008 |
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| Ritchie, G. R. S., Kirby, S., and Hawkey, D. J. C. (2008) Song learning as an indicator mechanism: modelling the developmental stress hypothesis. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 251(4):570--583. |
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(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. |
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(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. |
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(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. |
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| 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. |
| 2007 |
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| Kirby, S. (2007) The evolution of language. In Dunbar, R. and Barrett, L., editors, Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, pages 669--681. Oxford University Press. |
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(7) | Kirby, S. (2007) The evolution of meaning-space structure through iterated learning. In Lyon, C. and Nehaniv, C. and Cangelosi, A., editors, Emergence of Communication and Language, pages 253--268. Springer Verlag. |
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(66) | Kirby, S., Dowman, M., and Griffiths, T. L. (2007) Innateness and culture in the evolution of language. PNAS, 104(12):5241--5245. |
| 2006 |
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(66) | Dowman, M., Kirby, S., and Griffiths, T. L. (2006) Innateness and culture in the evolution of language. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, pages 83--90. |
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| Levy, S. D. and Kirby, S. (2006) Evolving Distributed Representations for Language with Self-Organizing Maps. In P. Vogt and et al., editors, Symbol Grounding and Beyond: Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the and Evolution of Linguistic Communicationj and Evolution of Linguistic Communication, pages 57--71. Springer. |
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| Ritchie, G. and Kirby, S. (2006) Modelling the transition to learned communication: an initial investigation into the ecological conditions favouring cultural transmission. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, pages 283--290. |
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| Brighton, H. and Kirby, S. (2006) Understanding Linguistic Evolution by Visualizing the Emergence of Topographic Mappings. Artificial Life, 12(2):229--242. |
| 2005 |
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(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. |
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| Ritchie, G. and Kirby, S. (2005) Selection, domestication, and the emergence of learned communication systems. In Second International Symposium on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication. |
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(31) | Brighton, H., Smith, K., and Kirby, S. (2005) Language as an evolutionary system. Physics of Life Reviews, 2(3):177--226. |
| 2004 |
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(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. |
| 2003 |
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| 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. |
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(24) | Christiansen, M. H. and Kirby, S. (2003) Language Evolution: The Hardest Problem in Science? In M.H. Christiansen and S. Kirby, editors, Language Evolution: The States of the Art. Oxford University Press. |
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(58) | Christiansen, M. H. and Kirby, S. (2003) Language Evolution: The States of the Art. Oxford University Press. |
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(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. |
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(43) | Christiansen, M. H. and Kirby, S. (2003) Language Evolution: Consensus and Controversies. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7(7):300--307. |
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(5) | Kirby, S. and Christiansen, M. H. (2003) From language learning to language evolution. In M.H. Christiansen and S. Kirby, editors, Language Evolution: The States of the Art. Oxford University Press. |
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| Miranda, E. R., Kirby, S., and Todd, P. M. (2003) On Computational Models of the Evolution of Music: From the Origins of Musical Taste to the Emergence of Grammars. Contemporary Music Review, 22(3):91--111. |
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(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 |
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(89) | Kirby, S. (2002) Learning, Bottlenecks and the Evolution of Recursive Syntax. In Ted Briscoe, editor, Linguistic Evolution through Language Acquisition: Formal and Computational Models. Cambridge University Press. |
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(96) | Kirby, S. (2002) Natural Language from Artificial Life. Artificial Life, 8(2):185--215. |
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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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(1) | Wheeler, M., Bullock, S., Paolo, E. A. D., Noble, J., Bedau, M., Husbands, P., Kirby, S., and Seth, A. (2002) The View From Elsewhere: Perspectives on ALife Modeling. Artificial Life, 8(1):97--100. |
| 2001 |
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(26) | Brighton, H. and Kirby, S. (2001) The Survival of the Smallest: Stability Conditions for the Cultural Evolution of Compositional Language. In J. Kelemen and P. Sosík, editors, ECAL01, pages 592--601. Springer-Verlag. |
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| Brighton, H. and Kirby, S. (2001) Meaning Space Structure Determines the Stability of Culturally Evolved Compositional Language. Technical report, Language Evolution and Computation Research Unit, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, The University of Edinburgh. |
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(122) | Kirby, S. (2001) Spontaneous evolution of linguistic structure: an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and irregularity. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 5(2):102--110. |
| 2000 |
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(98) | Kirby, S. (2000) Syntax without Natural Selection: How compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners. In C. Knight, editor, The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic Form, pages 303--323. Cambridge University Press. |
| 1999 |
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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. |
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| Kirby, S. (1999) Function, Selection and Innateness: the Emergence of Language Universals. Oxford University Press. |
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(5) | Kirby, S. (1999) Learning, Bottlenecks and Infinity: a working model of the evolution of syntactic communication. In K. Dautenhahn and C. Nehaniv, editors, Proceedings of the AISB'99 Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts. |
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(22) | Kirby, S. (1999) Syntax out of Learning: the cultural evolution of structured communication in a population of induction algorithms. In D. Floreano and J.-D. Nicoud and F. Mondada, editors, ECAL99, pages 694--703. |
| 1998 |
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| Kirby, S. (1998) Language evolution without natural selection: From vocabulary to syntax in a population of learners. Technical report, Language Evolution and Computation Research Unit, University of Edinburgh. |
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(34) | Kirby, S. (1998) Fitness and the selective adaptation of language. In Hurford, J. R. and Studdert-Kennedy, M. and Knight C., editors, Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases, pages 359--383. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
| 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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(17) | Kirby, S. (1997) Competing motivations and emergence: explaining implicational hierarchies. Language Typology, 1(1):5--32. |
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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. |
| 1996 |
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(99) | Kirby, S. (1996) Function, Selection and Innateness: the Emergence of Language Universals. PhD thesis, Department of Linguistics, 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. |