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University of Edinburgh: Edinburgh, GB

2010-07-01 to present (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences)
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Kenny Smith

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University of Edinburgh: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, GB

1999-10 to 2003-03 | PhD (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences)
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Beyond Crosslinguistic Influence: Mandarin Speakers with Exposure to Null- subject Languages Nonetheless Use Fewer Null Pronouns in Mandarin

2025-03-05 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/gnzyt_v1
Contributors: Yajun Liu; Antonella Sorace; Kenny Smith
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Grammatical unidirectionality is not reflected in individual preferences when performing artificial semantic extension

2025-03-03 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/c5zks_v2
Contributors: Anna Kapron-King; Simon Kirby; Graeme Trousdale; Kenny Smith
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Semantic extension in a novel communication system is facilitated by salient shared associations

2025-02-17 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/rj8v4_v2
Contributors: Kenny Smith; Josephine Bowerman; Andrew Smith
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Predictive structure emerges during generalisation of kin terms to new referents

2025-01-24 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/t6prw
Contributors: Maisy Hallam; Fiona Jordan; Simon Kirby; Kenny Smith
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Grammatical unidirectionality is not reflected in individual preferences when performing artificial semantic extension

2024-12-02 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/c5zks
Contributors: Anna Kapron-King; Simon Kirby; Graeme Trousdale; Kenny Smith
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AI model collapse might be prevented by studying human language transmission

Nature
2024-09-19 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/d41586-024-03023-y
Contributors: Kenny Smith; Simon Kirby; Shangmin Guo; Thomas L. Griffiths
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Simplifications made early in learning can reshape language complexity: an experimental test of the Linguistic Niche Hypothesis

2024-05-08 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/2kzd4
Contributors: Kenny Smith
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Semantic extension in a novel communication system is facilitated by salient shared associations

2024-03-25 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/rj8v4_v1
Contributors: Kenny Smith; Josephine Bowerman; Andrew Smith
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Semantic extension in a novel communication system is facilitated by salient shared associations

2024-03-25 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/rj8v4
Contributors: Kenny Smith; Josephine Bowerman; Andrew Smith
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Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Perspective-taking in a language game

PLOS ONE
2024-01-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0288330
Contributors: Johanne Nedergaard; Fang Wang; Kenny Smith
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The learnability and emergence of dependency structures in an artificial language

Journal of Language Evolution
2023-09-16 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/jole/lzad006
Contributors: Emily Davis; Kenny Smith
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From partners to populations: A hierarchical Bayesian account of coordination and convention.

Psychological Review
2023-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1037/rev0000348
Contributors: Robert D. Hawkins; Michael Franke; Michael C. Frank; Adele E. Goldberg; Kenny Smith; Thomas L. Griffiths; Noah D. Goodman
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Degree of heterogeneity in the contexts of language users mediates the cognitive-communicative trade-off in semantic categorization

2023-07-06 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/mxk74
Contributors: Vlad Nedelcu; Kenny Smith; Daniel Lassiter
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Two-Year-Olds’ Eye Movements Reflect Confidence in Their Understanding of Words

Psychological Science
2022-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/09567976221105208
Contributors: Isabelle Dautriche; Louise Goupil; Kenny Smith; Hugh Rabagliati
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The complexity of a language is shaped by the communicative needs of its users and by the hierarchical nature of their social inferences

2022-05-30 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/vqkb2
Contributors: Vlad Nedelcu; Kenny Smith
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An experimental study of semantic extension in a novel communication system

2022-05-11 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/8szgh
Contributors: Josephine Bowerman; Kenny Smith
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How Language Learning and Language Use Create Linguistic Structure

Current Directions in Psychological Science
2022-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/09637214211068127
Contributors: Kenny Smith
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Semantic cues in language learning: an artificial language study with adult and child learners

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
2022-04-21 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2021.1995612
Contributors: Helen Brown; Kenny Smith; Anna Samara; Elizabeth Wonnacott
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Speakers Align With Their Partner's Overspecification During Interaction

Cognitive Science
2021-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13065
Contributors: Jia E. Loy; Kenny Smith
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The emergence of systematic argument distinctions in artificial sign languages

Journal of Language Evolution
2021-11-25 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/jole/lzab002
Contributors: Yasamin Motamedi; Kenny Smith; Marieke Schouwstra; Jennifer Culbertson; Simon Kirby
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How language learning and language use create linguistic structure

2021-11-15 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/qbdsv
Contributors: Kenny Smith
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Subjective confidence influences word learning in a cross-situational statistical learning task

2021-06-29 | Other
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/84bqu
Contributors: Isabelle Dautriche; Hugh Rabagliati; Kenny Smith
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Two-year-olds’ eye movements reflect confidence in their understanding of words

2021-06-22 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/pd6xh
Contributors: Isabelle Dautriche; Louise Goupil; Kenny Smith; Hugh Rabagliati
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Constituent order in silent gesture reflects the perspective of the producer

Journal of Language Evolution
2021-05-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/jole/lzaa010
Contributors: Fiona Kirton; Simon Kirby; Kenny Smith; Jennifer Culbertson; Marieke Schouwstra
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Is Regularization Uniform across Linguistic Levels? Comparing Learning and Production of Unconditioned Probabilistic Variation in Morphology and Word Order

Language Learning and Development
2021-04-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2021.1876697
Contributors: Carmen Saldana; Kenny Smith; Simon Kirby; Jennifer Culbertson
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Rational After All: Changes in Probability Matching Behaviour Across Time in Humans and Monkeys

2021-01-20 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/f5jts
Contributors: Carmen Saldana; Nicolas Claidière; Joel Fagot; Kenny Smith
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The emergence of word-internal repetition through iterated learning: Explaining the mismatch between learning biases and language design

2020-12-16 | Other
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/ctv9f
Contributors: Mitsuhiko Ota; Aitor San José; Kenny Smith
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The impact of information structure on the emergence of differential object marking: an experimental study

2020-12-15 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/759gm
Contributors: Shira Tal; Kenny Smith; Jennifer Culbertson; Eitan Grossman; Inbal Arnon
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Knowing how you know: Toddlers re-evaluate words learnt from an unreliable speaker

2020-11-26 | Other
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/ruwdk
Contributors: Isabelle Dautriche; Louise Goupil; Kenny Smith; Hugh Rabagliati
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Simplicity and informativeness in semantic category systems

Cognition
2020-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104289
Contributors: Jon W. Carr; Kenny Smith; Jennifer Culbertson; Simon Kirby
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Predictive structure or paradigm size? Investigating the effects of i-complexity and e-complexity on the learnability of morphological systems

2020-09-15 | Other
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/qns6v
Contributors: Tamar Johnson; Kexin Gao; Kenny Smith; Hugh Rabagliati; Jennifer Culbertson
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Communicative pressures shape language during communication (not learning): Evidence from case-marking in artificial languages

2020-08-18 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/5nwhq
Contributors: Kenny Smith; Jennifer Culbertson
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Simplicity and informativeness in semantic category systems

2020-06-26 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/jkfyx
Contributors: Jon W Carr; Kenny Smith; Jennifer Culbertson; Simon Kirby
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The emergence of word order conventions: improvisation, interaction and transmission

2020-06-03 | Other
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/wdfu2
Contributors: Marieke Schouwstra; Kenny Smith; Simon Kirby
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Assessing Integrative Complexity as a predictor of morphological learning using neural networks and artificial language learning

2020-03-16 | Other
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/yngw9
Contributors: Tamar Johnson; Jennifer Culbertson; Hugh Rabagliati; Kenny Smith
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Quantifying the dynamics of topical fluctuations in language

Language Dynamics and Change
2020-02-10 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1163/22105832-01001200
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Contributors: Andres Karjus; Richard Blythe; Simon Kirby; Kenny Smith
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Asymmetric accommodation during interaction leads to the regularisation of linguistic variants

Journal of Memory and Language
2019-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2019.104036
Contributors: Olga Fehér; Nikolaus Ritt; Kenny Smith
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Communication increases category structure and alignment only when combined with cultural transmission

Journal of Memory and Language
2019-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2019.104051
Contributors: Catriona Silvey; Simon Kirby; Kenny Smith
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Evolving artificial sign languages in the lab: From improvised gesture to systematic sign

Cognition
2019-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.05.001
Contributors: Yasamin Motamedi; Marieke Schouwstra; Kenny Smith; Jennifer Culbertson; Simon Kirby
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A computational model of the cultural co-evolution of language and mindreading

2019-11-17 | Other
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/3bmsx
Contributors: Marieke Woensdregt; Chris Cummins; Kenny Smith
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Interaction promotes the adaptation of referential conventions to the communicative context

Cognitive Science
2019-08-04 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12780
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Contributors: Lucia Castillo; Kenny Smith; Holly Branigan
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Cumulative cultural evolution in a non-copying task in children and Guinea baboons

Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
2019-07-27 | Conference paper | Author
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Contributors: Carmen Saldana; Joel Fagot; Simon Kirby; Kenny Smith; Nicolas Claidière
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Syntactic adaptation depends on perceived linguistic knowledge: Native English speakers differentially adapt to native and non-native confederates in dialogue

2019-07-22 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/pu2qa
Contributors: J E Loy; Kenny Smith
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Children's sensitivity to phonological and semantic cues during noun class learning

Language
2019-06 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1353/lan.0.0234
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Contributors: Jennifer Culbertson; Hanna Jarvinen; Frances Haggarty; Kenny Smith
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High-fidelity copying is not necessarily the key to cumulative cultural evolution: a study in monkeys and children

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2019-06-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.0729
Contributors: Carmen Saldana; Joël Fagot; Simon Kirby; Kenny Smith; Nicolas Claidière
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Compositional hierarchical structure evolves through cultural transmission

Journal of Language Evolution
2019-05-28 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1093/jole/lzz002
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Contributors: Carmen Saldana; Simon Kirby; Robert Truswell; Kenny Smith
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The cognitive roots of regularization in language

Cognition
2019-03 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.12.002
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Contributors: Vanessa Ferdinand; Simon Kirby; Kenny Smith
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Perspective-taking is spontaneous but not automatic

2019-03-01 | Other
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/wzcqs
Contributors: Cathleen O'Grady; Thom Scott-Phillips; Suilin Lavelle; Kenny Smith
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Sticky Labels

AMLaP 2018, Berlin, Germany, 6/09/18
2018 | Conference poster | Author
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Contributors: Lucía Castillo; Kenny Smith; Holly Branigan
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Toddlers’ eye-movements reflect (un)certainty about their knowledge of a word’s meaning

2018 | Conference poster | Author
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Contributors: Isabelle Dautriche; Louise Goupil; Kenny Smith; Hugh Rabagliati
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