Simon Kirby
3 Charles St
Edinburgh, SCT, United Kingdom
Edinburgh, SCT, United Kingdom
Last Updated: 09/26/2026
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Found 73 publications
Language-like statistical structure arises in learned signaling: evidence from birdsong.
Journal: Science advances
Published: August 07, 2026
Language models do not yet achieve explanatory adequacy because language is more than incremental prediction.
Journal: The Behavioral and brain sciences
Published: June 30, 2026
What enables human language? A biocultural framework.
Journal: Science (New York, N.Y.)
Published: November 20, 2025
Whale song shows language-like statistical structure.
Journal: Science (New York, N.Y.)
Published: February 06, 2025
Predictive Structure Emerges During the Generalisation of Kin Terms to New Referents.
Journal: Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science
Published: January 16, 2025
The lexicon adapts to competing communicative pressures: Explaining patterns of word similarity.
Journal: Cognition
Published: December 24, 2024
Linguistic Rule Generalisation Creates the Same Distributional Structure That Feeds It.
Journal: Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science
Published: November 11, 2024
Language structure reflects biases in pattern learning across domains and modalities.
Journal: Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)
Published: September 13, 2024
Evidence for word order harmony between abstract categories in silent gesture.
Journal: Cognition
Published: March 25, 2024
Cultural evolution creates the statistical structure of language.
Journal: Scientific reports
Published: November 07, 2023
Last Updated: 09/26/2026