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Kenny SmithSchool of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of EdinburghVerified email at ed.ac.uk
Morten H. ChristiansenThe William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology, Cornell UniversityVerified email at cornell.edu
Hannah CornishBritish Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of StirlingVerified email at stir.ac.uk
Henry BrightonTilburg UniversityVerified email at uvt.nl
Jennifer CulbertsonReader, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of EdinburghVerified email at ed.ac.uk
Marieke SchouwstraAssistant Professor, University of AmsterdamVerified email at uva.nl
Monica TamarizHeriot-Watt UniversityVerified email at hw.ac.uk
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Yasamin MotamediCentre for Language Evolution, the University of EdinburghVerified email at ed.ac.uk
Julia SimnerUniversity of SussexVerified email at sussex.ac.uk
Andrea RavignaniResearch Group Leader, Comparative Bioacoustics Group, Max Planck Institute for PsycholinguisticsVerified email at mpi.nl
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Simon Kirby

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Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: An experimental approach to the origins of structure in human language S Kirby, H Cornish, K Smith Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (31), 10681-10686, 2008	951	2008
Language evolution. MH Christiansen, SE Kirby Oxford University Press, 2003	811	2003
Language evolution. MH Christiansen, SE Kirby Oxford University Press, 2003	811	2003
Function, selection, and innateness: The emergence of language universals S Kirby OUP Oxford, 1999	589	1999
Language evolution: Consensus and controversies MH Christiansen, S Kirby Trends in cognitive sciences 7 (7), 300-307, 2003	532	2003
Spontaneous evolution of linguistic structure-an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and irregularity S Kirby IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 5 (2), 102-110, 2001	529	2001
The emergence of linguistic structure: An overview of the iterated learning model S Kirby, JR Hurford Simulating the evolution of language, 121-147, 2002	446	2002
Compositionality Emerges from Vocabulary S Kirby The evolutionary emergence of language: Social function and the origins of …, 2000	433	2000
Learning, bottlenecks and the evolution of recursive syntax S Kirby na 4, 173-203, 2002	413	2002
Innateness and culture in the evolution of language S Kirby, M Dowman, TL Griffiths Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (12), 5241-5245, 2007	409	2007
Natural language from artificial life S Kirby Artificial life 8 (2), 185-215, 2002	358	2002
Compression and communication in the cultural evolution of linguistic structure S Kirby, M Tamariz, H Cornish, K Smith Cognition 141, 87-102, 2015	333	2015
Iterated learning: A framework for the emergence of language K Smith, S Kirby, H Brighton Artificial life 9 (4), 371-386, 2003	333	2003
Iterated learning and the evolution of language S Kirby, T Griffiths, K Smith Current opinion in neurobiology 28, 108-114, 2014	232	2014
Language evolution in the laboratory TC Scott-Phillips, S Kirby Trends in cognitive sciences 14 (9), 411-417, 2010	230	2010
How arbitrary is language? P Monaghan, RC Shillcock, MH Christiansen, S Kirby Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 369 …, 2014	215	2014
Complex systems in language evolution: the cultural emergence of compositional structure K Smith, H Brighton, S Kirby Advances in Complex Systems 6 (04), 537-558, 2003	199	2003
Cultural evolution: implications for understanding the human language faculty and its evolution K Smith, S Kirby Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 363 …, 2008	196	2008
Language as an evolutionary system H Brighton, K Smith, S Kirby Physics of Life Reviews 2 (3), 177-226, 2005	195	2005
Signalling signalhood and the emergence of communication TC Scott-Phillips, S Kirby, GRS Ritchie Cognition 113 (2), 226-233, 2009	163	2009

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