Kenny Smith
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- PhD Computer Science Stanford University
- Masters Computer Science Stanford University
- Bachelors Computer Science University of California, Berkeley
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Published Works
- Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: An experimental approach to the origins of structure in human language (2008) (739)
- Compression and communication in the cultural evolution of linguistic structure (2015) (321)
- Iterated Learning: A Framework for the Emergence of Language (2003) (282)
- Iterated learning and the evolution of language (2014) (235)
- Eliminating unpredictable variation through iterated learning (2010) (167)
- Complex Systems in Language Evolution: the Cultural Emergence of Compositional Structure (2003) (162)
- Language as an evolutionary system (2005) (152)
- Cultural evolution: implications for understanding the human language faculty and its evolution (2008) (146)
- Cross-Situational Learning: An Experimental Study of Word-Learning Mechanisms (2011) (138)
- Culture shapes the evolution of cognition (2016) (119)
- Cultural evolution of systematically structured behaviour in a non-human primate (2014) (105)
- The evolution of vocabulary. (2004) (96)
- Auditory sequence processing reveals evolutionarily conserved regions of frontal cortex in macaques and humans (2015) (89)
- Auditory Artificial Grammar Learning in Macaque and Marmoset Monkeys (2013) (88)
- The cultural evolution of communication in a population of neural networks (2002) (78)
- Zipf’s Law of Abbreviation and the Principle of Least Effort: Language users optimise a miniature lexicon for efficient communication (2017) (78)
- Cultural Evolution and Perpetuation of Arbitrary Communicative Conventions in Experimental Microsocieties (2012) (70)
- Languages adapt to their contextual niche (2014) (70)
- Learning Times for Large Lexicons Through Cross-Situational Learning (2010) (66)
- Word Meanings Evolve to Selectively Preserve Distinctions on Salient Dimensions (2015) (63)
- The Neurophysiology of Language Processing Shapes the Evolution of Grammar: Evidence from Case Marking (2015) (61)
- Language learning, language use and the evolution of linguistic variation (2017) (59)
- Acquiring variation in an artificial language: Children and adults are sensitive to socially conditioned linguistic variation (2017) (54)
- Cross-Situational Learning: A Mathematical Approach (2006) (51)
- Iterated learning in populations of Bayesian agents (2009) (49)
- Cultural selection for learnability: Three principles underlying the view that language adapts to be learnable (2006) (48)
- Minimal Requirements for the Emergence of Learned Signaling (2014) (47)
- The Cultural Evolution of Structured Languages in an Open‐Ended, Continuous World (2016) (46)
- Non‐adjacent Dependency Learning in Humans and Other Animals (2018) (45)
- Evolving artificial sign languages in the lab: From improvised gesture to systematic sign (2018) (44)
- Mixed‐complexity artificial grammar learning in humans and macaque monkeys: evaluating learning strategies (2015) (43)
- The cognitive roots of regularization in language (2017) (40)
- Meta-Learning to Compositionally Generalize (2021) (40)
- The Spontaneous Formation of Stereotypes via Cumulative Cultural Evolution (2014) (37)
- Introduction. Cultural transmission and the evolution of human behaviour (2008) (37)
- The ease and extent of recursive mindreading, across implicit and explicit tasks (2015) (34)
- Natural Selection and Cultural Selection in the Evolution of Communication (2002) (34)
- Contextual predictability shapes signal autonomy (2018) (31)
- Learning Bias, Cultural Evolution of Language, and the Biological Evolution of the Language Faculty (2011) (30)
- Momentum in Language Change: A Model of Self-Actuating S-shaped Curves (2016) (29)
- Systems from Sequences: an Iterated Learning Account of the Emergence of Systematic Structure in a Non-Linguistic Task (2013) (27)
- Linguistic structure is an evolutionary trade-off between simplicity and expressivity (2013) (26)
- Simplicity and informativeness in semantic category systems (2018) (26)
- THE PROTOLANGUAGE DEBATE: BRIDGING THE GAP? (2006) (24)
- Convergent transformation and selection in cultural evolution (2018) (23)
- Adult Learning and Language Simplification (2018) (23)
- Language Evolution in Populations: Extending the Iterated Learning Model (2003) (23)
- High-fidelity copying is not necessarily the key to cumulative cultural evolution: a study in monkeys and children (2019) (22)
- The Emergence of Compositional Languages for Numeric Concepts Through Iterated Learning in Neural Agents (2019) (22)
- Word learning under infinite uncertainty (2014) (21)
- Speaker Input Variability Does Not Explain Why Larger Populations Have Simpler Languages (2015) (21)
- From partners to populations: A hierarchical Bayesian account of coordination and convention (2021) (20)
- Proceedings of the 31th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (2009) (18)
- Regularization behavior in a non-linguistic domain (2013) (18)
- Challenges in detecting evolutionary forces in language change using diachronic corpora (2018) (17)
- Stochastic dynamics of lexicon learning in an uncertain and nonuniform world. (2013) (17)
- Perspective-taking is spontaneous but not automatic (2019) (16)
- How Culture and Biology Interact to Shape Language and the Language Faculty (2018) (16)
- Children’s sensitivity to phonological and semantic cues during noun class learning: Evidence for a phonological bias (2019) (15)
- Situated Cognition and the Role of Multi-agent Models in Explaining Language Structure (2002) (14)
- Language in Flux: Dialogue Coordination, Language Variation, Change and Evolution (2008) (14)
- The Effects of Generation Turnover and Interlocutor Negotiation on Linguistic Structure (2012) (14)
- Quantifying the dynamics of topical fluctuations in language (2018) (14)
- The role of moral disengagement in street gang offending (2015) (13)
- A computational model of the cultural co-evolution of language and mindreading (2019) (13)
- The evolution of language : proceedings of the 6th international conference (EVOLANG6) , Rome, Italy, 12-15 April 2006 (2006) (13)
- Psychobiological responses to critically evaluated multitasking (2017) (13)
- Social Group Effects on the Emergence of Communicative Conventions and Language Complexity (2018) (12)
- The Importance of Rapid Cultural Convergence in the Evolution of Learned Symbolic Communication (2001) (12)
- CULTURAL EVOLUTION RENDERS LINGUISTIC NATIVISM IMPLAUSIBLE (2012) (12)
- Pragmatics and Language Evolution (2017) (12)
- Communication increases category structure and alignment only when combined with cultural transmission (2019) (9)
- The cultural evolution of complex linguistic constructions in artificial sign languages (2017) (9)
- Emerging abstractions: Lexical conventions are shaped by communicative context (2018) (9)
- Eliminating unpredictable linguistic variation through interaction (2014) (9)
- Communicative need modulates competition in language change (2020) (8)
- The cognitive prerequisites for language: insights from iterated learning (2018) (8)
- Learning Biases for the Evolution of Linguistic Structure: An Associative Network Model (2003) (8)
- Counselor education cultural climate: underrepresented master’s students’ experiences (2015) (8)
- Conceptual Similarity and Communicative Need Shape Colexification: An Experimental Study (2021) (8)
- Knowing How You Know: Toddlers Reevaluate Words Learned From an Unreliable Speaker (2020) (7)
- REGULARIZATION IN LANGUAGE EVOLUTION: ON THE JOINT CONTRIBUTION OF DOMAIN-SPECIFIC BIASES AND DOMAIN-GENERAL FREQUENCY LEARNING (2014) (7)
- The Language Phenomenon (2013) (7)
- Semantic cues in language learning: an artificial language study with adult and child learners (2017) (6)
- The emergence of systematic argument distinctions in artificial sign languages (2021) (6)
- Communication Leads to the Emergence of Sub-optimal Category Structures (2013) (6)
- Overextensions and the emergence of compositionality (2006) (6)
- Expressivity of Emergent Language is a Trade-off between Contextual Complexity and Unpredictability (2021) (6)
- Asymmetric accommodation during interaction leads to the regularisation of linguistic variants (2019) (6)
- Social interaction influences the evolution of cognitive biases for language (2014) (5)
- The effect of communication on category structure (2014) (5)
- Is regularisation uniform across linguistic levels? Comparing learning and production of unconditioned probabilistic variation in morphology and word order. (2018) (5)
- The dot perspective task revisited: Evidence for directional effects (2017) (5)
- Is the strength of regularisation behaviour uniform across linguistic levels? (2017) (5)
- ITERATED LEARNING IN POPULATIONS: LEARNING AND EVOLVING EXPECTATIONS ABOUT LINGUISTIC HOMOGENEITY (2012) (5)
- LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE EMERGES IN THE CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF ARTIFICIAL SIGN LANGUAGES (5)
- Modelling the co-development of word learning and perspective-taking (2016) (5)
- Social influences on the regularization of unpredictable variation (2014) (5)
- Evolutionary perspectives on statistical learning (2011) (5)
- Cultural Evolution of Language (2006) (5)
- The emergence of word order conventions: improvisation, interaction and transmission (2020) (4)
- A model of linguistic accommodation leading to language simplification (2018) (4)
- Co-evolution of language and social network structure through cultural transmission (2010) (4)
- Assessing Integrative Complexity as a predictor of morphological learning using neural networks and artificial language learning (2020) (4)
- Constituent order in silent gesture reflects the perspective of the producer (2021) (4)
- Context and Perceptual Salience Influence the Formation of Novel Stereotypes via Cumulative Cultural Evolution (2017) (4)
- The Impact of Information Structure on the Emergence of Differential Object Marking: An Experimental Study (2020) (4)
- The cultural evolution of cognition (2016) (4)
- The emergence of spatial modulation in artificial sign languages (2018) (4)
- Effects of Priming and Audience Design on the Explicitness of Referring Expressions: Evidence From a Confederate Priming Paradigm (2020) (4)
- Children’s Sensitivity to Phonological and Semantic Cues During Noun Class Learning: Evidence for a Phonological Bias (2019) (3)
- Zipf's Law of Abbreviation and the Principle of Least Effort (2017) (3)
- The influence of word-order harmony on structural priming in artificial languages (2017) (3)
- Predictive structure or paradigm size? Investigating the effects of i-complexity and e-complexity on the learnability of morphological systems (2020) (3)
- Learning, Feedback and Information in Self-Organizing Communication Systems (2013) (3)
- Syntactic adaptation depends on perceived linguistic knowledge: Native English speakers differentially adapt to native and non-native confederates in dialogue (2019) (3)
- Correction to Supporting Information for Kirby et al., Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: An experimental approach to the origins of structure in human language (2017) (3)
- Subjective confidence influences word learning in a cross-situational statistical learning task (2021) (3)
- Cultural selection for learnability : Three hypotheses concerning the characteristic structure of language (2005) (3)
- Communicative pressures shape language during communication (not learning): Evidence from casemarking in artificial languages (2020) (2)
- Cooperative Learning Groups and Streaming (2012) (2)
- Beyond the argument from design (2006) (2)
- Speakers Align With Their Partner's Overspecification During Interaction (2021) (2)
- Investigating the effects of i-complexity and e-complexity on the learnability of morphological systems (2021) (2)
- Topical advection as a baseline model for corpus-based lexical dynamics (2018) (2)
- Momentum-based language change: A non-adaptive model of directional selection (2014) (1)
- Compressible kinship terminologies are more learnable than less compressible alternatives (2018) (1)
- Two-Year-Olds’ Eye Movements Reflect Confidence in Their Understanding of Words (2021) (1)
- Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Perspective-taking in a language game (2020) (1)
- The Spread of (in-)definiteness marking in Early English: reconstructing category emergence in the lab (2015) (1)
- Cultural influences on personalized e-learning systems (2012) (1)
- Simple kinship systems are more learnable (2020) (1)
- The effect of fitness in the emergence of creole ” (2004) (1)
- How Language Learning and Language Use Create Linguistic Structure (2022) (1)
- Language Development: Evolutionary Theories (2015) (1)
- Statistical mechanics of lexicon learning in an uncertain and nonuniform world (2013) (1)
- From silent gesture to artificial sign languages (2014) (1)
- Learner dynamics in a model of wug inflection: integrating frequency and phonology (2020) (1)
- Modeling Language Transmission (2021) (1)
- Word learning under infinite uncertainty - Simulation codes and sample output (2016) (1)
- The Emergence of Conventions (2016) (1)
- Models of Language Evolution (2018) (1)
- Do children privilege phonological cues in noun class learning? (2018) (1)
- Rational After All: Changes in Probability Matching Behaviour Across Time in Humans and Monkeys (2020) (1)
- The evolution of learning mechanisms supporting symbolic communication (2007) (1)
- The cultural evolution of spatial modulations in artificial sign languages (2018) (1)
- Philosophy and the Sciences for Everyone (2014) (0)
- From wugged to wug: Reverse generalisation of stems from novel past tense verbs (2019) (0)
- Experimental conditions affect how social cues guide the regularisation of unpredictable variation (2019) (0)
- Eliminating unpredictable linguistic variation through interaction - eScholarship (2014) (0)
- The emergence of word-internal repetition through iterated learning: Explaining the mismatch between learning biases and language design (2020) (0)
- Generalisation over semantic cues in child and adult artificial language learning (2014) (0)
- Does learning favour communicative efficiency (2018) (0)
- The evolution of adjectival monotonicity1 (2019) (0)
- A model of cultural co-evolution of language and mindreading (2017) (0)
- REGULARIZATION OF LINGUISTIC VARIATION IN POPULATIONS (2012) (0)
- Social group effects on communicative conventions (2017) (0)
- Language-users choose short words in predictive contexts in an artificial language task (2017) (0)
- The influence of harmony on structural priming in artificial languages, extended (2017) (0)
- Modelling the Emergence of Positional Compositional Structure (2020) (0)
- Data for Smith, Perfors, Feher, Samara, Swoboda & Wonnacott (forthcoming), ”Language learning, language use, and the evolution of linguistic variation”, to appear in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (forthcoming as of 9th August 2016) (2016) (0)
- The noun-verb distinction in silent gesture (2018) (0)
- Sample Relationships through the Lens of Learning Dynamics with Label Information (2022) (0)
- The cultural evolution of functional morphology in an Iterated Learning experiment (2015) (0)
- Iconicity vs. Systematicity in Artificial Language Learning (2017) (0)
- Constituent Order in Improvised Gesture Reflects Speaker Perspective (2018) (0)
- The brain plus the cultural transmission mechanism determine the nature of language (2008) (0)
- Structural priming in an artificial language (2016) (0)
- The role of stimulus familiarity in non-linguistic sequence learning (2010) (0)
- A model of cultural co-evolution of language and perspectivetaking (2018) (0)
- Modal Action Patterns ▶ Fixed Action Patterns Model Comparison ▶ Phylogenetic Analysis Within Comparative Psychology Modeling ▶ Scaffolding in Learning Modeling Language Transmission (2021) (0)
- The differential effects of transmission and interaction on linguistic variation (2017) (0)
- Language stability and change in age-dependent networks (2019) (0)
- Experimentally investigating the role of context in the structuring of the linguistic system over cultural evolution (2014) (0)
- Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (2015) (0)
- Assessing Integrative Complexity as a Measure of Morphological Learning (2019) (0)
- SEARCHING FOR SUBSTANCE IN THE BALDWIN EFFECT: WHEN LEARNING CAUSALLY AFFECTS GENETIC ADAPTATION (2012) (0)
- Kirby language faculty and its evolution Cultural evolution : implications for understanding the human (2008) (0)
- Influence of partner behaviour on overspecification (2020) (0)
- Motivated vs. conventional systematicity: Implications for language learning and the structure of the lexicon (2014) (0)
- From UG to Universals (2007) (0)
- The evolutionary causes of irregularity: Evidence for an irregularization bias in morphological learning (2018) (0)
- Linguistic adaptation through iterated learning (2004) (0)
- Data from Culbertson et al. (2019) Children’s sensitivity to phonological and semantic cues during noun class learning (2019) (0)
- Artificial languages created through iterated learning experiments by Kirby, Cornish & Smith (2008) and Cornish (2011). (2016) (0)
- REGULARISATION OF UNPREDICTABLE VARIATION THROUGH ITERTATED LEARNING (2010) (0)
- Probability matching is not the default decision making strategy in human and non-human primates (2022) (0)
- Social influences on the regularization of unpredictable linguistic variation (2014) (0)
- SYSTEMS EMERGE: THE CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF INTERDEPENDENT SEQUENTIAL BEHAVIOURS IN THE LAB (2014) (0)
- Revised Imposing Memory Task videos (2014) (0)
- Is Regularization Uniform across Linguistic Levels? Comparing Learning and Production of Unconditioned Probabilistic Variation in Morphology and Word Order (2021) (0)
- Semantic conditioning in interaction and transmission (2018) (0)
- A rational model of linguistic accommodation and its potential role in language simplification (2018) (0)
- Learning to communicate about conceptual hierarchies (2018) (0)
- Conceptual structure is shaped by competing pressures for simplicity and informativeness (2018) (0)
- Evolution and Language: Cultural Transmission (2015) (0)
- Acquiring Agglutinating and Fusional Languages Can Be Similarly Difficult: Evidence from an Adaptive Tracking Study (2019) (0)
- Identifying linguistic selection and innovation while controlling for cultural drift (2018) (0)
- SIGNAL AUTONOMY IS SHAPED BY CONTEXTUAL PREDICTABILITY (0)
- The pyschoneuroendocrine effects of critical social evaluation during an ecologically valid lab stressor (the multi-tasking framework) (2010) (0)
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