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In: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics; Vol 5, No 1 (2020); 45 ; 2397-1835 (2020) BASE Show details 3 Adult learning and language simplification Atkinson, Mark; Smith, Kenny; Kirby, Simon. - 2020 BASE Show details 4 Cumulative cultural evolution in a non-copying task in children and Guinea baboons Saldana, Carmen; Fagot, Joël; Kirby, Simon. - : HAL CCSD, 2019. : Cognitive Science Society, 2019 In: 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03006189 ; 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Jul 2019, Montréal, Canada. Cognitive Science Society, pp.1001-1007, 2019, Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society ; https://cogsci.mindmodeling.org/2019/papers/0186/index.html (2019) BASE Show details 5 High-fidelity copying is not necessarily the key to cumulative cultural evolution: a study in monkeys and children Saldana, Carmen; Fagot, Joël; Kirby, Simon... In: ISSN: 0962-8452 ; EISSN: 1471-2954 ; Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02156588 ; Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Royal Society, The, 2019, 286 (1904), pp.20190729. ⟨10.1098/rspb.2019.0729⟩ (2019) BASE Show details 6 High-fidelity copying is not necessarily the key to cumulative cultural evolution: a study in monkeys and children Saldana, Carmen; Fagot, Joël; Kirby, Simon... In: ISSN: 0962-8452 ; EISSN: 1471-2954 ; Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences ; https://hal-amu.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02158406 ; Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Royal Society, The, 2019, 286 (1904), pp.20190729. ⟨10.1098/rspb.2019.0729⟩ (2019) BASE Show details 7 Induction and interaction in the evolution of language and conceptual structure Carr, Jon William. - : The University of Edinburgh, 2019 BASE Show details 8 Simplifying linguistic complexity: culture and cognition in language evolution Saldana, Carmen Catalina. - : The University of Edinburgh, 2018 BASE Show details 9 Topical advection as a baseline model for corpus-based lexical dynamics Karjus, Andres; Blythe, Richard A; Kirby, Simon... In: Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (2018) BASE Show details 10 Artificial sign language learning: a method for evolutionary linguistics Motamedi-Mousavi, Yasamin. - : The University of Edinburgh, 2017 BASE Show details 11 Direction and directedness in language change: an evolutionary model of selection by trend-amplification Stadler, Kevin. - : The University of Edinburgh, 2017 Abstract: Human languages are not static entities. Linguistic conventions, whose social and communicative meaning are understood by all members of a speech community, are gradually altered or replaced, whether by changing their forms, meanings, or by the loss of or introduction of altogether new distinctions. How do large speech communities go about re-negotiating arbitrary associations in the absence of centralised coordination? This thesis first provides an overview of the plethora of explanations that have been given for language change. Approaching language change in a quantitative and evolutionary framework, mathematical and computational modelling is put forward as a tool to investigate and compare these different accounts and their purported underlying mechanisms in a rigorous fashion. The central part of the thesis investigates a relatively recent addition to the pool of mechanisms that have been proposed to influence language change: I will compare previous accounts with a momentum-based selection account of language change, a replicator-neutral model where the popularity of a variant is modulated by its momentum, i.e. its change in frequency of use in the recent past. I will discuss results from a multi-agent model which show that the dynamics of a trend-amplifying mechanism like this are characteristic of language change, in particular by exhibiting spontaneously generated s-shaped transitions. I will also discuss several empirical predictions made by a momentum-based selection account which contrast with those that can be derived from other accounts of language change. Going beyond theoretical arguments for the role of trends in language change, I will go on to present fieldwork data of speakers’ awareness of ongoing syntactic changes in the Shetland dialect of Scots. Data collected using a novel questionnaire methodology show that individuals possess explicit knowledge about the direction as well as current progression of ongoing changes, even for grammatical structures which are very low in frequency. These results complement previous experimental evidence which showed that individuals both possess and make use of implicit knowledge about age-dependent usage differences during ongoing sound changes. Echoing the literature on evolutionary approaches to language change, the final part of the thesis stresses the importance of explicitly situating different pressures either in the domain of the innovation of new or else the selection of existing variants. Based on a modification of the Wright-Fisher model from population genetics, I will argue that trend-amplification selection mechanisms provide predictions that neatly match empirical facts, both in terms of the diachronic dynamics of language change, as well as in terms of the synchronic distribution of linguistic traits that we find in the world. Keyword: language change; language evolution; linguistic trends; syntactic change; trend amplification; trends URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22980 BASE Hide details 12 Minimal requirements for the cultural evolution of language Spike, Matthew John. - : The University of Edinburgh, 2017 BASE Show details 13 Autopoietic approach to cultural transmission Papadopoulos-Korfiatis, Alexandros. - : The University of Edinburgh, 2017 BASE Show details 14 The Cultural Evolution of Structured Languages in an Open-Ended, Continuous World Kirby, Simon; Carr, Jon W; Cornish, Hannah. - : Wiley-Blackwell, 2017 BASE Show details 15 Sociocultural determination of linguistic complexity Atkinson, Mark David. - : The University of Edinburgh, 2016 BASE Show details 16 Communicative emergence and cultural evolution of word meanings Silvey, Catriona Anne. - : The University of Edinburgh, 2015 BASE Show details 17 Inductive evolution: cognition, culture, and regularity in language Ferdinand, Vanessa Anne. - : The University of Edinburgh, 2015 BASE Show details 18 Transmission, induction and evolution Thompson, William David. - : The University of Edinburgh, 2015 BASE Show details 19 Compression and communication in the cultural evolution of linguistic structure Kirby, Simon; Tamariz, Monica; Cornish, Hannah. - : Elsevier, 2015 BASE Show details 20 Self-domestication and Language Evolution Thomas, James. - : The University of Edinburgh, 2014 BASE Show details Page: 1 2 3

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