Preprints
Loy, J. E., & Smith, K. Syntactic adaptation depends on perceived linguistic knowledge: Native English speakers differentially adapt to native and non-native confederates in dialogue. [Preprint]
Smith, K., & Culbertson, J. Communicative pressures shape language during communication (not learning): Evidence from casemarking in artificial languages. [Preprint]
Smith, K., Bowerman, J., & Smith, A. D. M. Semantic extension in a novel communication systemis facilitated by salient shared associations. [Preprint]
Forthcoming
Dallimore, C. J., Smith, K., Hutchison, J., Slessor, G., & Martin, D. (forthcoming). Many Mickles Make a Muckle: Evidence That Gender Stereotypes Reemerge Spontaneously Via Cultural Evolution. To appear in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. [Open access in PSPB]
Guerrero Montero, J., Karjus, A., Smith, K., & Blythe, R. A. (forthcoming). Reliable detection and quantification of selective forces in language change. To appear in Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. [Open access in CLLT][Preprint]
2024
Conklin, H., & Smith, K. (2024). Representations as Language: An Information-Theoretic Framework for Interpretability. In L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey, & E. Hazeltine (Eds.) Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [Proceedings]
Guo, S., Ren, Y., Albrecht, S., & Smith, K. (2024). lpNTK: Better Generalisation with Less Data via Sample Interaction During Learning. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations. [OpenReview]
Johnson, T., Elsner, M., & Smith, K. (2024). Testing the Effects of the Implicative Structure and Noun Class Size on the Learnability of Inflectional Paradigms in Adults and Artificial Neural Networks. In L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey, & E. Hazeltine (Eds.) Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [Proceedings]
Nedelcu, V., Lassiter, D., & Smith, K. (2024). Variability in communication contexts determines the convexity of semantic category systems emerging in neural networks. In L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey, & E. Hazeltine (Eds.) Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [Proceedings]
Nedergaard, J., & Smith, K. (2024). Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Perspective-taking in a language game. PLOS ONE, 19, e0288330. [Open access in PLOS ONE]
Prasertsom, P., Smith, K., & Culbertson, J. (2024). Domain-general categorisation principles explain the prevalence of animacy and absence of colour in noun classification systems. In L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey, & E. Hazeltine (Eds.) Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [Proceedings]
Smith, K. (2024). Simplifications made early in learning can reshape language complexity: an experimental test of the Linguistic Niche Hypothesis. In L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey, & E. Hazeltine (Eds.) Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [Proceedings]
Smith, K., Kirby, S., Guo, S. & Griffiths, T. L. (2024). AI model collapse might be prevented by studying human language transmission. Letter to the editor, Nature. [Nature]
2023
Conklin, H., & Smith, K. (2023). Compositionality with Variation Reliably Emerges in Neural Networks. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations. [OpenReview]
Davis, E., & Smith, K. (2023). The learnability and emergence of dependency structures in an artificial language. Journal of Language Evolution, 8, 64-89. [Open access in Journal of Language Evolution
Hawkins, R. D., Franke, M., Frank, M. C., Goldberg, A. E., Smith, K., Griffiths, T. L., & Goodman, N. D. (2023). From partners to populations: A hierarchical Bayesian account of coordination and convention. Psychological Review, 130, 977-1016. [Psych Review][Preprint]
Nedelcu, V., Smith, K., & Lassiter, D. (2023). Degree of heterogeneity in the contexts of language users mediates the cognitive-communicative trade-off in semantic categorization. In M. Goldwater, F. K. Anggoro, B. K. Hayes, & D. C. Ong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [Proceedings]
Smith, K., Ashton, C., & Sims-Williams, H. (2023). The Relationship Between Frequency and Irregularity in the Evolution of Linguistic Structure: An Experimental Study. In M. Goldwater, F. K. Anggoro, B. K. Hayes, & D. C. Ong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 851-857). [Proceedings]
Tal, S., Smith, K., Arnon, I., & Culbertson, J. (2023). Communicative efficiency is present in young children and becomes more adult-like with age. In M. Goldwater, F. K. Anggoro, B. K. Hayes, & D. C. Ong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1446-1452). [Proceedings]
2022
Bowerman, J., & Smith, K. (2022). An experimental study of semantic extension in a novel communication system. In J. Culbertson, A. Perfors, H. Rabagliati & V. Ramenzoni (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [Proceedings][Data and code][CogSci Talk]
Brown, H., Smith, K., Samara, A., & Wonnacott, E. (2022). Semantic cues in language learning: An artificial language study with adult and child learners. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 37, 509-531. [Open access in LCN][Data]
Dautriche, I., Goupil, L., Smith, K., & Rabagliati, H.(2022). Two-year-olds’ eye movements reflect confidence in their understanding of words. Psychological Science, 33, 1842-1856. [Psych Science][Preprint]
Guo, S., Ren, Y., Mathewson, K. W., Kirby, S., Albrecht, S., & Smith, K. (2022). Expressivity of emergent languages is a trade-off between contextual complexity and unpredictability. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations. [OpenReview]
Tal, S., Smith, K., Culbertson, J., Grossman, E., & Arnon, I. (2022). The impact of information structure on the emergence of differential object marking: an experimental study. Cognitive Science, 46, e13119. [Open Access in Cognitive Science][Preprint]
Nedelcu, V., & Smith, K. (2022). The complexity of a language is shaped by the communicative needs of its users and by the hierarchical nature of their social inferences. In J. Culbertson, A. Perfors, H. Rabagliati & V. Ramenzoni (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [CogSci Proceedings][CogSci Talk]
Saldana, C., Claidière, N., Fagot, J., & Smith, K. (2022). Probability matching is not the default decision making strategy in human and non-human primates. Scientific Reports, 12, 13092. [Open access in Scientific Reports]
Smith, K. (2022). How language learning and language use create linguistic structure. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 31, 177-186. [CDPS][Preprint]
2021
Conklin, H., Wang, B., Smith, K., & Titov, I. (2021). Meta-learning to compositionally generalize. In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (pp. 3322-3335). [ACL Proceedings]
Dautriche, I., Rabagliati, H., & Smith, K. (2021). Subjective confidence influences word learning in a cross-situational statistical learning task. Journal of Memory and Language, 121, 104277. [Open Access in Journal of Memory and Language][Data]
Dautriche, I., Goupil, L., Smith, K., & Rabagliati, H. (2021). Knowing how you know: Toddlers re-evaluate words learnt from an unreliable speaker. Open Mind, 5, 1-21. [Open Access in Open Mind][Data]
Johnson, T., Gao, K., Smith, K., Rabagliati, H., & Culbertson, J. (2021). Predictive structure or paradigm size? Investigating the effects of i-complexity and e-complexity on the learnability of morphological systems. Journal of Language Modelling, 9, 97-150. [Open Access in Journal of Language Modeling]
Karjus, A., Blythe, R. A., Kirby, S., Wang, T., & Smith, K. (2021). Conceptual similarity and communicative need shape colexification. Cognitive Science, 45, e13035. [Open Access in Cognitive Science]
Kirton, F., Schouwstra, M., Culbertson, J., Smith, K., & Kirby, S. (2021). Constituent Order in Silent Gesture Reflects the Perspective of the Producer. Journal of Language Evolution, 6, 54-76. [Journal of Language Evolution][Data]
Loy, J. E., & Smith, K. (2021). Speakers align with their partner's overspecification during interaction. Cognitive Science, 45, e13065. [Open Access in Cognitive Science][Data][Materials]
Motamedi, Y., Smith, K., Schouwstra, M., Culbertson, J., & Kirby, S. (2021). The emergence of systematic argument distinctions in artificial sign languages. Journal of Language Evolution, 6, 77-98. [Open Access in Journal of Language Evolution][Video data][Coded data]
Ota, M., San Jose, A., & Smith, K. (2021). The emergence of word-internal repetition through iterated learning: Explaining the mismatch between learning biases and language design. Cognition, 210, 104585. [Cognition][Preprint][Data]
Saldana, C., Smith, K., Kirby, S., & Culbertson, J. (2021). Is regularisation uniform across linguistic levels? Comparing learning and production of unconditioned probabilistic variation in morphology and word order. Language Learning and Development, 17, 158-188. Winner of The Peter Jusczyk Best Paper Award for LLD in 2021. [Language Learning and Development][Preprint][Data]
2020
Carr, J., Smith, K., Culbertson, J., & Kirby, S. (2020). Simplicity and informativeness in semantic category systems. Cognition, 202, 104289. [Cognition][Preprint][Data]
Frank, S., & Smith, K. (2020). Natural population growth can cause language simplification. In A. Ravignani et al. (Eds.) The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference (pp. 111-121). [PDF]
Frank, S., Smith, K., & Cuskley, C. (2020). Learner dynamics in a model of wug inflection: Integrating frequency and phonology. In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 709-715). [PDF]
Karjus, A., Blythe, R. A., Kirby, S., & Smith, K. (2020). Challenges in detecting evolutionary forces in language change using diachronic corpora. Glossa, 5, 45. [Open Access in Glossa][Code]
Karjus, A., Blythe, R. A., Kirby, S., & Smith, K. (2020). Quantifying the dynamics of topical fluctuations in language. Language Dynamics and Change, 10, 86-125. [LDC][Preprint][Code]
Loy, J. E., & Smith, K. (2020). Influence of partner behaviour on overspecification. In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 238-244). [Proceedings]
Loy, J. E., Bloomfield, S., & Smith, K. (2020). Effects of priming and audience design on the explicitness of referring expressions: evidence from a confederate priming paradigm. Discourse Processes, 57, 808-821. [Discourse Processes][Data]
Nedegraard, J., & Smith, K. (2020). Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Perspective-taking in a language game. In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1001-1007). [Proceedings]
O'Grady, C., Scott-Phillips, T., Lavelle, S., & Smith, K. (2020). Perspective-taking is spontaneous but not automatic. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73, 1605-1628. [QJEP][Preprint][Data and materials]
Saldana, C., Claidiere, N., Fagot, J., & Smith, K. (2020). Rational After All: Changes in Probability Matching Behaviour Across Time in Humans and Monkeys. In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 752-758). [PDF][CogSci Proceedings]
Smith, K. (2020). How culture and biology interact to shape language and the language faculty. Topics in Cognitive Science, 12, 690-712. [Open Access in Topics]
Smith, K. Frank, S., Rolando, S., Kirby, S., & Loy, J. E. (2020). Simple kinship systems are more learnable. In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 801-807). [PDF][CogSci Proceedings]
Woensdregt, M., Cummins, C., & Smith, K. (2020). A computational model of the cultural co-evolution of language and mindreading. Synthese, 199, 1347-1385. [Open Access in Synthese]
2019
Atkinson, M., Mills, G., & Smith, K. (2019). Social group effects on the emergence of communicative conventions and language complexity. Journal of Language Evolution, 4, 1-18. [Open Access in Journal of Language Evolution]
Castillo, L., Smith, K., & Branigan, H. (2019). Interaction promotes the adaptation of referential conventions to the communicative context. Cognitive Science, 43, e12780. [Cognitive Science][Data]
Culbertson, J., Jarvinen, H., Haggarty, F., & Smith, K. (2019). Children’s sensitivity to phonological and semantic cues during noun class learning: evidence for a phonological bias. Language, 95, 268-293. [Language][Preprint][Data]
Fehér, O., Ritt, N., & Smith, K. (2019). Asymmetric accommodation during interaction leads to the regularisation of linguistic variants. Journal of Memory and Language, 109, 104036. [Open Access in JML][Data and analysis scripts]
Ferdinand, V., Kirby, S., & Smith, K. (2019). The cognitive roots of regularization in language. Cognition, 184, 53-68. [Cognition][Preprint]
Motamedi, Y., Schouwstra, M., Smith, K., Culbertson, J., & Kirby, S. (2019). Evolving artificial sign languages in the lab: from improvised gesture to systematic sign. Cognition, 192, 103964. [Cognition][Preprint][Data]
Saldana, C., Kirby, S., Truswell, R., & Smith, K. (2019). Compositional hierarchical structure evolves through cultural transmission: an experimental study. Journal of Language Evolution, 4, 83-107. [Journal of Language Evolution][Preprint]
Saldana, C., Fagot, J., Kirby, S., Smith, K., & Claidiere, N. (2019). Cumulative cultural evolution in a non-copying task in children and Guinea baboons. In A.K. Goel, C.M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1001-1007). Montreal, QB: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF][Cogsci Proceedings]
Saldana, C., Fagot, J., Kirby, S., Smith, K., & Claidière, N. (2019). High-fidelity copying is not necessarily the key to cumulative cultural evolution: a study in monkeys and children. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286, 20190729. [PRSB][Data]
Silvey, C., Kirby, S., & Smith, K. (2019). Communication increases category structure and alignment only when combined with cultural transmission. Journal of Memory and Language, 109, 104051.[JML] [Preprint]
Wagner, S., Smith, K., & Culbertson, J. (2019). Acquiring agglutinating and fusional languages can be similarly difficult: Evidence from an adaptive tracking study. In A.K. Goel, C.M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3050-3056). Montreal, QB: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
2018
Atkinson, M., Smith, K., & Kirby, S. (2018). Adult learning and language simplification. Cognitive Science, 42, 2818-2854. [Open Access in Cognitive Science]
Claidière, N., Amedon, G. K. K., André, J-B., Kirby, S., Smith, K., Sperber, D., & Fagot, J. (2018). Convergent transformation and selection in cultural evolution. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39, 191-202. [EHB]
Culbertson, J., Jarvinen, H., Haggarty, F., & Smith, K. (2018). Do children privilege phonological cues in noun class learning? In C. Kalish, M. Rau, J. Zhu, & T. Rogers (Eds.) Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 268-273). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Frank, S., & Smith, K. (2018). A model of linguistic accommodation leading to language simplification. In C. Kalish, M. Rau, J. Zhu, & T. Rogers (Eds.) Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 390-395). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Hawkins, R. X. D., Franke, M., Smith, K. & Goodman, N. D. (2018). Emerging abstractions: Lexical conventions are shaped by communicative context. In C. Kalish, M. Rau, J. Zhu, & T. Rogers (Eds.) Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 463-468). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Hutchison, J., Cunningham, S. J., Slessor, G., Urquhart, J., Smith, K., & Martin, D. (2018). Context and Perceptual Salience Influence the Formation of Novel Stereotypes via Cumulative Cultural Evolution. Cognitive Science, 42, 186-212. [Open Access in Cognitive Science]
O'Grady, C., & Smith, K. (2018). Models of language evolution. In S.-A. Rueschemeyer & G. Gaskell (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Smith, K. (2018). The cognitive prerequisites for language: Insights from iterated learning. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 21, 154-160. [COBS][Preprint]
Wilson, B., Spierings, M., Ravignani, A., Mueller, J. L., Mintz, T. H., Wijnen, F., van der Kant, A., Smith, K., & Rey, A. (2018). Non-adjacent dependency learning in humans and other animals. Topics in Cognitive Science. [Open Access in Topics]
Winters, J., Kirby, S., & Smith, K. (2018). Contextual predictability shapes signal autonomy. Cognition, 176, 15-30. [Cognition]
2017
Martin, D., Cunningham, S. J., Hutchison, J., Slessor, G., & Smith, K. (2017). How societal stereotypes might form and evolve via cumulative cultural evolution. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 11, e12338. [Open Access in SPPC]
Carr, J., Smith, K., Cornish, H., & Kirby, S. (2017). The cultural evolution of structured languages in an open-ended, continuous world. Cognitive Science, 41, 892-923. [Open Access in Cognitive Science]
Culbertson, J., Galgliardi, A., & Smith, K. (2017). Competition between phonological and semantic cues in noun class learning. Journal of Memory and Language, 92, 343-358. [JML]
Kanwal, J., Smith, K., Culbertson, J., & Kirby, S. (2017). Language-users choose short words in predictive contexts in an artificial language task. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. J. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 643-648). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Kanwal, J., Smith, K., Culbertson, J., & Kirby, S. (2017). Zipf's Law of Abbreviation and the Principle of Least Effort: Language users optimise a miniature lexicon for efficient communication. Cognition, 165, 45-52. [Cognition][Data]
Motamedi, Y., Schouwstra, M., Culbertson, J., Smith, K., & Kirby, S. (2017). The cultural evolution of complex linguistic constructions in artificial sign languages. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. J. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2760-2765). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
O'Grady, C., Scott-Phillips, T., Lavelle, S., & Smith, K. (2017). The dot perspective task revisited: Evidence for directional effects. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. J. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2821-2826). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Saldana, S., Smith, K., Kirby, S., & Culbertson, J. (2017). Is the strength of regularisation behaviour uniform across linguistic levels? In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. J. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1023-1028). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Samara, A., Smith, K., Brown, H., & Wonnacott, E. (2017). Acquiring variation in an artificial language: children and adults are sensitive to socially conditioned linguistic variation. Cognitive Psychology, 94, 85-114. [Open Access in Cognitive Psychology][Data and analysis scripts]
Smith, K., Perfors, A., Fehér, O., Samara, A., Swoboda, K., & Wonnacott, E. (2017). Language learning, language use, and the evolution of linguistic variation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 372, 20160051. [Open Access in Phil Trans][Data]
Wetherell, M., Craw, O., Smith, K., & Smith, M. A. (2017). Psychobiological responses to critically evaluated multitasking. Neurobiology of Stress, 7, 78-73. [Open Access in Neurobiology of Stress]
Woensdregt, M., & Smith, K. (2017). Pragmatics and language evolution. In M. Aronoff (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Preprint]
2016
Blythe, R. A., Smith, A. D. M., & Smith, K. (2016). Word learning under infinite uncertainty. Cognition, 151, 18-27. [Cognition][arXiv]
Carr, J. W., & Smith, K. (2016). Modeling language transmission. In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer. [Springer]
Fehér, O., Wonnacott, E., & Smith, K. (2016). Structural priming in artificial languages and the regularisation of unpredictable variation. Journal of Memory and Language, 91, 158-180. [Open Access in JML]
Spike, M., Stadler, K., Kirby, S., & Smith, K. (2016). Minimal requirements for the emergence of learned signaling. Cognitive Science. [Open Access in Cognitive Science]
Stadler, K., Blythe, R., Smith, K., & Kirby, S. (2016). Momentum in language change: A model of self-actuating s-shaped curves. Language Dynamics and Change, 6, 171–198. [LDC]
Thompson, B., Kirby, S., & Smith, K. (2016). Culture shapes the evolution of cognition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 113, 4530-4535. [Open Access in PNAS]
Woensdregt, M., Kirby, S., Cummins, C., & Smith, K. (2016). Modelling the co-development of word learning and perspective-taking. In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J.C. Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1241-1246). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
2015
Atkinson, M., Kirby, S., & Smith, K. (2015). Speaker input variability does not explain why larger populations have simpler languages. PLOS ONE, 10, e0129463. [Open Access in PLOS ONE]
Kirby, S., Tamariz, M., Cornish, H., & Smith, K. (2015). Compression and Communication in the Cultural Evolution of Linguistic Structure. Cognition, 141, 87-102. [Cognition]
O'Grady, C., Kliesch, C., Smith, K., & Scott-Phillips, T. (2015). The ease and extent of recursive mindreading, across implicit and explicit tasks. Evolution and Human Behavior, 36, 313-322. [EHB]
Silvey, C., Kirby, S., & Smith, K. (2015). Word meanings evolve to selectively preserve distinctions on salient dimensions. Cognitive Science, 39, 212-226. [Cognitive Science]
Thompson, W., & Smith, K. (2015). Evolution and Language: Cultural Transmission. In J. Wright (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition. Elsevier. [Elsevier]
Wilson, B., Smith, K., & Petkov, C. (2015). Mixed-complexity artificial grammar learning in humans and macaque monkeys: Evaluating learning strategies. European Journal of Neuroscience, 41, 568-578. [Open Access in EJN]
Wilson, B., Kikuchi, Y., Sun, L., Hunter, D., Dick, F., Smith, K., Thiele, A., Griffiths, T. D., Marslen-Wilson, W. D., & Petkov, C. I. (2015). Auditory sequence processing reveals evolutionarily conserved regions of frontal cortex in macaques and humans. Nature Communications, 6, 8901. [Open Access in Nature Communications]
Winters, J., Kirby, S., & Smith, K. (2015). Linguistic systems adapt to their contextual niche. Language and Cognition, 7, 415-449. [Language & Cognition][Preprint]
2014
Claidière, N., Smith, K., Kirby, S., & Fagot, J. (2014). Cultural evolution of a systematically structured behaviour in a non-human primate. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281, 20141541. [Open access in PRSB]
Fehér, O., Kirby, S., & Smith, K. (2014). Social influences on the regularization of unpredictable variation. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2187-2191). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Kirby, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Smith, K. (2014). Iterated learning and the evolution of language. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 28, 108-114. [PDF]
Martin, D., Hutchison, J., Slessor, G., Urquhart, J., Cunningham, S. J., & Smith, K. (2014). The spontaneous formation of stereotypes via cumulative cultural evolution. Psychological Science, 25, 1777-1786. [Preprint][Psychological Science]
Silvey, C., & Smith, K. (2014). Mechanisms of cultural transmission and language learning. In P. J. Brooks & V. Kempe (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of language development. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
Smith, K., Fehér, O., & Ritt, N. (2014). Eliminating unpredictable linguistic variation through interaction. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1461-1466). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
2013
Binder, P., & Smith, K. (Eds.) (2013). The Language Phenomenon: Human communication from milliseconds to millennia. Springer.
Featuring contributions from Bill Croft, Dan Dediu, Simon Garrod, Simon Kirby, Ralph-Axel Muller, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Martin Pickering, Suzanne Romaine, Elizabeth Wonnacott & Jelle Zuidema.
Cornish, H., Smith, K., & Kirby, S. (2013). Systems from sequences: an Iterated Learning account of the emergence of systematic structure in a non-linguistic task. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 340-345). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Reisenauer, R., Smith, K., & Blythe, R. A. (2013). Statistical mechanics of lexicon learning in an uncertain world. Physical Review Letters, 110, 258701. [arXiv]
Ferdinand, V., Thompson, B., Kirby, S., & Smith, K. (2013). Regularization behavior in a non-linguistic domain. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 436-441). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Silvey, C., Kirby, S., & Smith, K. (2013). Communication leads to the emergence of sub-optimal category structures. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1312-1317). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Smith, K., Tamariz, M. & Kirby, S. (2013). Linguistic structure is an evolutionary trade-off between simplicity and expressivity. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1348-1353). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Spike, M., Stadler, K., Kirby, S., & Smith, K. (2013). Learning, feedback and information in self-organizing communication systems. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3442-3447). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Wilson, B., Slater, H., Kikuchi, Y., Milne, A., Marslen-Wilson, W., Smith, K., & Petkov, C. (2013). Auditory artificial grammar learning in macaque and marmoset monkeys. Journal of Neuroscience, 33, 18825-18835. [Open access in JoN]
2012
Caldwell, C. A., & Smith, K. (2012). Cultural evolution and the perpetuation of arbitrary communicative conventions in experimental microsocieties. PLoS ONE, 7, e43807. [PLoS One]
Flynn, E. G. & Smith, K. (2012). Investigating the mechanisms of cultural acquisition: How pervasive is overimitation in adults? Social Psychology, 43, 185-195. [PDF]
Smith, K. (2012). Why formal models are useful for evolutionary linguists. In M. Tallerman, and K. Gibson (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Smith, K., & Kirby, S. (2012). Compositionality and linguistic evolution. In W. Hinzen, E. Machery, and M. Werning (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Compositionality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2011
Smith, K. (2011). Learning bias, cultural evolution of language and the biological evolution of the language faculty. Human Biology, 83, 261-278. [PDF]
Smith, K., Smith, A. D. M., & Blythe, R. A. (2011) Cross-situational learning: an experimental study of word-learning mechanisms. Cognitive Science, 35, 480-498. [PDF]
2010
Blythe, R. A., Smith, K., & Smith, A. D. M. (2010). Learning times for large lexicons through cross-situational learning. Cognitive Science, 34, 620-642. [PDF]
Smith, A. D. M., Schouwstra, M., de Boer, B., & Smith, K. (2010). The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference. Singapore: World Scientific Press.
Smith, K., & Wonnacott, E. (2010). Eliminating unpredictable variation through iterated learning. Cognition, 116, 444-449. [PDF]
2009
Smith, K. (2009). Iterated learning in populations of Bayesian agents. In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 697-702). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Smith, K., Smith, A. D. M., & Blythe, R. A. (2009). Reconsidering human cross-situational learning capacities: A revision to Yu & Smith's (2007) experimental paradigm. In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2711-2716). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Sturm, J. A., & Smith, K. (2009). The role of Gestalt principles in the acquisition of non-adjacent dependencies in linguistic and non-linguistic sequences. In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 183-188). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
2008
Kirby, S., Cornish, H., & Smith, K. (2008). Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: an experimental approach to the origins of structure in human language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 105, 10681-10686. [PDF]
Smith, A. D. M., Smith, K., & Ferrer i Cancho, R. (2008). The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference. Singapore: World Scientific Press.
Smith, K. (2008). Is a holistic protolanguage a plausible precursor to language? A test case for a modern evolutionary linguistics. Interaction Studies, 9, 1-17. [PDF]
Smith, K., & Kirby, S. (2008). Cultural evolution: implications for understanding the human language faculty and its evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B,363, 3591-3603. [PDF]
Smith, K., & Kirby, S. (2008). Natural selection for communication favours the cultural evolution of linguistic structure. In A. D. M. Smith, K. Smith, & R. Ferrer i Cancho (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference (pp. 283-290). Singapore: World Scientific Press. [PDF]
Smith, K., Kirby, S., Smith, A. D. M. (2008). The brain plus the cultural transmission mechanism determine the nature of language. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 533-534.
This is a commentary on Christiansen & Chater, Language as shaped by the brain.
Smith, K., Kalish, M., Griffiths, T., & Lewandowsky, S. (2008). Introduction. Cultural transmission and the evolution of human behaviour. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 363, 3469-3476. [PDF]
This is the introduction to a Theme Issue on this topic.
2006
Cangelosi, A., Smith, A. D. M., & Smith, K. (2006). The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference. Singapore: World Scientific Press.
Smith, K. (2006). Cultural evolution of language. In K. Brown (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd Edition, pp. 315-322). Amsterdam: Elsevier. [PDF]
Smith, K., Smith, A.D. M., Blythe, R. A., & Vogt, P. (2006). Cross-situational learning: a mathematical approach. In P. Vogt, Y. Sugita, E. Tuci, & C. Nehaniv (Eds.) Symbol Grounding and Beyond: Third International Workshop on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communications (pp. 31-44). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. [PDF]
Smith, K. (2006). The Protolanguage Debate: bridging the gap? In A. Cangelosi, A. D. M. Smith, & K. Smith (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference (pp. 315-322). Singapore: World Scientific Press. [PDF]
2005
Brighton, H., Kirby, S., & Smith, K. (2005). Cultural Selection for Learnability: Three hypotheses underlying the view that language adapts to be learnable. In M. Tallerman (Ed.), Language origins: Perspectives on evolution (pp. 291-309). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [PDF of final draft]
Brighton, H., Smith, K., & Kirby, S. (2005). Language as an evolutionary system. Physics of Life Reviews, 2, 177-226. [PDF]
2004
Kirby, S., Smith, K., & Brighton, H. (2004). From UG to Universals: linguistic adaptation through iterated learning. Studies in Language, 28, 587-607. [PDF]
Commentary by Bill Croft,
reply to commentary.
Also reprinted in 2007 in M. Penke, & A. Rosenbach (Eds.), What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics: The Case of Innateness (pp. 117-138). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Smith, K. (2004). The evolution of vocabulary. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 228, 127-142. [PDF]
2003
Brighton, H., Kirby, S., & Smith, K. (2003). Situated cognition and the role of multi-agent models in explaining language structure. In D. Kudenko, E. Alonso, and D. Kazakov (Eds.), Adaptive Agents (pp. 88-109). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. [Springer Link] [PDF of final draft]
Smith, K. (2003). Learning biases and language evolution. In S. Kirby (Ed.), Language Evolution and Computation (Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Evolution and Computation, 15th European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information). [PDF]
Smith, K. (2003). Learning biases for the evolution of linguistic structure: an associative network model. In W. Banzhaf, T. Christaller, P. Dittrich, J. T. Kim, & J. Ziegler (Eds.), Advances in Artificial Life (Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Artificial Life) (pp. 517-524). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. [PDF]
Smith, K., & Hurford, J. R. (2003). Language Evolution in Populations: extending the Iterated Learning Model. In W. Banzhaf, T. Christaller, P. Dittrich, J. T. Kim, & J. Ziegler (Eds.), Advances in Artificial Life (Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Artificial Life) (pp. 507-516). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. [PDF]
Smith, K., Brighton, H., & Kirby, S. (2003). Complex Systems in Language Evolution: the cultural emergence of compositional structure. Advances in Complex Systems, 6, 537-558. [PDF]
Smith, K., Kirby, S., & Brighton, H. (2003). Iterated Learning: a framework for the emergence of language. Artificial Life, 9, 371-386. [PDF]
2002
Smith, K. (2002). Natural selection and cultural selection in the evolution of communication. Adaptive Behavior, 10, 25-44. [PDF]
Smith, K. (2002). The cultural evolution of communication in a population of neural networks. Connection Science, 14, 65-84. [Open Access Version]
2001
Smith, K. (2001). The importance of rapid cultural convergence in the evolution of learned symbolic communication. In J. Kelemen, & P. Sosik (Eds.), Advances in Artificial Life (Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Artificial Life) (pp. 637-640). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. [PDF]
