Simon Kirby - Selected Publications#

Total citations: 8757, h-index: 41, approx citations per year: 800.

2018 & J Winters, K. Smith. ‘Contextual predictability shapes signal autonomy’. Cognition. 176:15-30.

2018 & J. Thomas. ‘Self domestication and the evolution of language’. Biology & Philosophy. 33(1-2):9

2017 ‘Culture and biology in the origins of linguistic structure’. Psych Bul Rev. 24(1): 118-137

2017 & J. Kanwal, K. Smith, J. Culbertson. ‘Zipf’s Law of Abbreviation and the Principle of Least Effort: Language users optimise a miniature lexicon for efficient communication’. Cognition. 165:45-52

2017 & A. Ravignani, T. Delgado. ‘Musical evolution in the lab exhibits rhythmic universals’. Nature Human Behaviour. 1:7

2016 & B. Thompson, K. Smith. ‘Culture shapes the evolution of cognition’. PNAS. 113(16):4530-4535

2015 & M. Tamariz, H. Cornish, K. Smith. ‘Compression and communication in the cultural evolution of linguistic structure’. Cognition. 141:87-102

2014 & N. Cladiere, K. Smith, J. Fagot. ‘Cultural evolution of systematically structured behaviour in a non-human primate’. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 281(1797):20141541

2010 & T. Scott-Phillips. ‘Language evolution in the laboratory’. Trends Cog Sciences. 14(9):411-417.

2008 & H. Cornish, K. Smith. ‘Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: an experimental approach to the origins of structure in human language’. PNAS 105(31):10681-10686.

2007 & M. Dowman, T. Griffiths. ‘Innateness and cultural in the evolution of language’. PNAS 104(12):5241-5245