Simon M. Kirby

Publications

• Christiansen, M. and Kirby, S.. Language Evolution. Oxford University Press.
• Kirby, S.. Function, Selection and Innateness: the Emergence of Language Universals. Oxford University Press.

• Kirby, S., Dowman, M. and Griffiths, T. Innateness and culture in the evolution of language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104:5241-5245.
• Brighton, H. and Kirby, S.. Understanding linguistic evolution by visualizing the emergence of topographic mappings. Artificial Life, 12:229-242.
• Brighton, H., Smith, K., and Kirby, S.. Language as evolutionary system. Physics of Life Reviews, 2:177-226.
• Kirby, S.. Bias, innateness and domain specificity. Journal of Child Language, 31:927-930.
• Kirby, S., Smith, K., and Brighton, H.. From UG to universals: linguistic adaptation through iterated learning. Studies in Language, 28:587-607.
• Christiansen, M. H. and Kirby, S.. Language evolution: Consensus and controversies. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7:300-307.
• Miranda, E. R., Kirby, S., and Todd, P. M.. On computational models of the evolution of music: From the origins of musical taste to the emergence of grammars. Contemporary Music Review, 22:91-111.
• Smith, K., Brighton, H., and Kirby, S.. Complex systems in language evolution: the cultural emergence of compositional structure. Advances in Complex Systems, 6:537-558.
• Smith, K., Kirby, S., and Brighton, H.. Iterated learning: a framework for the emergence of language. Artificial Life, 9:371-386.
• Kirby, S.. Natural language from artificial life. Artificial Life, 8:185-215.
• Wheeler, M., Bullock, S., Paolo, E. A. D., Noble, J., Bedau, M., Husbands, P., Kirby, S., and Seth, A.. The view from elsewhere: Perspectives on Alife modeling. Artificial Life, 8:97-100.
• Kirby, S.. Spontaneous evolution of linguistic structure: an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and irregularity. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 5:102-110.
• Todd, P. and Kirby, S.. I like what I know: How recognition-based decisions can structure the environment. In Kelemen, J. and Sosik, P., editors, Advances in Artificial Life. Springer.
• Kirby, S.. The role of I-language in diachronic adaptation. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 18.
• Kirby, S.. Motivations concurrentes et emergence comme explications des hierarchies implicationnelles. Verbum, XX:309-336.
• Hurford, J., Joseph, S., Kirby, S., and Reid, A.. Evolution might select constructivism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 20:567-568.
• Kirby, S.. Competing motivations and emergence: explaining implicational hierarchies. Language Typology, 1:5-32.
• Kirby, S. and Hurford, J.. Neural preconditions for proto-language. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 18:193-194.
• Kirby, S.. Adaptive explanations for language universals: a model of Hawkins' performance theory. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, 47:186-210.