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PhD Computer Science Stanford University
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Bachelors Computer Science University of California, Berkeley

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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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