Kirby, Simon

Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: An experimental approach to the origins of structure in human language

Kirby, S., Cornish, H., & Smith, K. (2008) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Language and cultural evolutionLanguage Development and Disorders

Cited by 941

Compression and communication in the cultural evolution of linguistic structure

Kirby, S., Tamariz, M., Cornish, H., & Smith, K. (2015) · Cognition

Language and cultural evolutionSyntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Cited by 557

Innateness and culture in the evolution of language

Kirby, S., Dowman, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2007) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Language and cultural evolutionSyntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Cited by 442

Iterated learning and the evolution of language

Kirby, S., Griffiths, T., & Smith, K. (2014) · Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Language and cultural evolutionLanguage Development and Disorders

Cited by 313

Iterated Learning: A Framework for the Emergence of Language

Smith, K., Kirby, S., & Brighton, H. (2003) · Artificial Life

Language and cultural evolutionSyntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Cited by 291

Zipf’s Law of Abbreviation and the Principle of Least Effort: Language users optimise a miniature lexicon for efficient communication

Kanwal, J., Smith, K., Culbertson, J., & Kirby, S. (2017) · Cognition

Language and cultural evolutionSyntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Cited by 176

What sound does that taste? Cross-modal mappings across gustation and audition

Simner, J., Cuskley, C., & Kirby, S. (2010) · Perception

Multisensory perception and integrationTactile and Sensory Interactions

Cited by 174

Languages adapt to their contextual niche

WINTERS, J., KIRBY, S., & SMITH, K. (2015) · Language and Cognition

Language and cultural evolutionCategorization, perception, and language

Cited by 87

Contextual predictability shapes signal autonomy

Winters, J., Kirby, S., & Smith, K. (2018) · Cognition

Language and cultural evolutionSyntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Cited by 54