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Smith, K. (2003) The Transmission of Language: models of biological and cultural evolution. PhD thesis, Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, The University of Edinburgh.

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xxxx -Language evolution in a multi-agent model: the cultural emergence of compositional structure - SMITH,BRIGHTON,KIRBY :: 2
2003 -Iterated Learning: a framework for the emergence of language - Smith,Kirby,Brighton :: 34
2003 -Situated cognition and the role of multi-agent models in explaining language structure - Brighton,Kirby,Smith :: 6
2003 -Intelligent Meaning Creation in A Clumpy World Helps Communication - Smith :: 20
2002 -The Transition to Language - Wray :: 19
2002 -Rethinking the language bottleneck: Why don't animals learn to communicate - OLIPHANT :: 8
2002 -Expression/induction models of language evolution: dimensions and issues - Hurford :: 31
2002 -The Roles of Expression and Representation in Language Evolution - Hurford :: 4
2002 -Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution - Jackendoff :: 59
2002 -Linguistic Evolution through Language Acquisition: Formal and Computational Models - Briscoe :: 47
2002 -The learning guided evolution of natural language - Turkel :: 14
2002 -The negotiation and acquisition of recursive grammars as a result of competition among exemplars - Batali :: 66
2002 -From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language - Corballis :: 9
2002 -The Emergence of Linguistic Structure: An overview of the Iterated Learning Model - Kirby,Hurford :: 58
2002 -The importance of hierarchical learning: A computational study of sequential learning in human and non-human primates - CHRISTIANSEN,CONWAY :: 1
2002 -The cultural evolution of communication in a population of neural networks - Smith :: 27
2002 -Constraints on Communities with Indigenous Sign Languages: Clues to the Dynamics of Language Genesis - Ragir :: 6
2002 -The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? - Hauser,Chomsky,Fitch :: 82
2002 -Evolutionary ecology of spoken language: coevolutionary hypotheses are testable - BUCKLEY,STEELE :: 2
2002 -Foraging Versus Social Intelligence in the Evolution of Protolanguage - Bickerton :: 3
2002 -Compositional Syntax from Cultural Transmission - Brighton :: 53
2002 -On Nature and Language - CHOMSKY :: 12
2002 -Natural selection and cultural selection in the evolution of communication - Smith :: 12
2002 -Learning, Bottlenecks and the Evolution of Recursive Syntax - Kirby :: 86
2002 -Empirical assessment of stimulus poverty arguments - PULLUM,SCHOLZ :: 13
2002 -Phonemic coding might be a result of sensory-motor coupling dynamics - Oudeyer :: 13
2001 -From Cultural Selection to Genetic Selection: A Framework for the Evolution of Language - Dor,Jablonka :: 1
2001 -Spontaneous evolution of linguistic structure: an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and irregularity - Kirby :: 96
2001 -Advances in Artificial Life: Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Artificial Life - KELEMEN,SOS :: 2
2001 -Predator-specific alarm calls in Campbell's monkeys, Cercopithecus campbelli - ZUBERBUHLER :: 2
2001 -A forkhead-domain gene is mutated in a severe speech and language disorder - Lai,Fisher,Hurst,Vargha-Khadem,Monaco :: 25
2001 -The Difficulty of the Baldwinian Account of Linguistic Innateness - Yamauchi :: 9
2001 -Towards an evolutionary theory of language - Nowak,Komarova :: 26
2001 -The Importance of Rapid Cultural Convergence in the Evolution of Learned Symbolic Communication - Smith :: 9
2001 -Establishing Communication Systems without Explicit Meaning Transmission - Smith :: 28
2001 -Compositionality - KRIFKA :: 6
2001 -The Origins of Vowel Systems - de~Boer :: 40
2001 -Evolution of universal grammar - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi :: 90
2001 -Evolving Communication without Dedicated Communication Channels - Quinn :: 14
2000 -Niche construction, biological evolution, and cultural change - LALAND,ODLING-SMEE,FELDMAN :: 7
2000 -Experiments in iterated instance-based learning - BRIGHTON :: 5
2000 -The evolution of syntactic communication - Nowak,Plotkin,Jansen :: 81
2000 -Social transmission favours linguistic generalization - Hurford :: 34
2000 -Evolutionary Perspectives on Diachronic Syntax - Briscoe :: 17
2000 -Whistle matching in wild bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus - JANIK :: 1
2000 -Grammatical Acquisition: Inductive Bias and Coevolution of Language and the Language Acquisition Device - Briscoe :: 36
2000 -Explaining Language Change: an evolutionary approach - CROFT :: 14
2000 -How Children Learn the Meanings of Words - BLOOM :: 27
2000 -The functions of formulaic language: an integrated model - WRAY,PERKINS :: 2
2000 -Syntax without Natural Selection: How compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners - Kirby :: 81
2000 -Modelling language-physiology coevolution - Livingstone,Fyfe :: 7
2000 -On the design of neural networks in the brain by genetic evolution - ROLLS,STRINGER :: 2
2000 -Learners are losers: Natural selection and learning in the evolution of communication - Smith :: 3
2000 -Simulation models as opaque thought experiments - DI,DI,BULLOCK :: 1
2000 -Essential Introductory Linguistics - HUDSON :: 1
2000 -The evolution of speech: a comparative review - Fitch :: 24
2000 -Memes: Universal acid or a better mousetrap - BOYD,RICHERSON :: 3
2000 -Self-organization in vowel systems - de~Boer :: 29
2000 -The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic Form - Knight,Hurford,Studdert-Kennedy :: 33
2000 -Human language and our reptilian brain: The subcortical bases of speech, syntax, and thought - Lieberman :: 6
2000 -How protolanguage became language - Bickerton :: 6
1999 -The evolutionary language game - Nowak,Plotkin,Krakauer :: 51
1999 -Modelling the Evolution of Linguistic Diversity - Livingstone,Fyfe :: 22
1999 -Language Learning from Fragmentary Input - Hurford :: 6
1999 -Syntax as an emergent characteristic of the evolution of semantic complexity - Schoenemann :: 18
1999 -The development of language: Acquisition, change and evolution - Lightfoot :: 41
1999 -Function, Selection and Innateness: the Emergence of Language Universals - Kirby :: 76
1999 -Advances in Artificial Life: Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Artificial Life - FLOREANO,NICOUD,MONDADA :: 1
1999 -An emergence of coordinated communication in populations of agents - KVASNI,KVASNI,POSP :: 1
1999 -Cooperation, conflict and the evolution of communication - Noble :: 11
1999 -The learning barrier: Moving from innate to learned systems of communication - Oliphant :: 42
1999 -Modeling the evolution of communication: From stimulus associations to grounded symbolic associations - Cangelosi :: 17
1999 -The cultural origins of human cognition - TOMASELLO :: 26
1999 -Creation through contact: Sign language emergence and sign language change in Nicaragua - KEGL,SENGHAS,COPPOLA :: 10
1998 -Dynamics of Internal and Global Structure through Linguistic Interactions - Hashimoto :: 5
1998 -Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases - Hurford,Studdert-Kennedy,Knight :: 55
1998 -Apes, Language, and the Human Mind - SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH,SHANKER,TAYLOR :: 10
1998 -Capacities underlying word learning - BLOOM,MARKSON :: 1
1998 -Catastrophic evolution: The case for a single step from protolanguage to full human language - Bickerton :: 23
1998 -Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language - Dunbar :: 49
1998 -The origins of syntax in visually grounded robotic agents - Steels :: 56
1998 -Computational simulations of the emergence of grammar - Batali :: 99
1998 -Language Form and Language Function - NEWMEYER :: 13
1998 -The emergence of a language in an evolving population of neural networks - Cangelosi,Parisi :: 64
1998 -Evolved Signals: Expensive Hype vs. Conspirational Whispers - Noble :: 10
1998 -The emergence of propositions from the coordination of talk and action in a shared world - HAZELHURST,HUTCHINS :: 2
1998 -Evolutionary Biology - FUTUYMA :: 3
1997 -Learning and the emergence of coordinated communication - Oliphant,Batali :: 61
1997 -Constructing and sharing perceptual distinctions - Steels :: 31
1997 -The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain - Deacon :: 142
1997 -Diana monkey long-distance calls: messages for conspecifics and predators - ZUBERBUHLER,NOE,SEYFARTH :: 1
1997 -The Evolution of Communication - Hauser :: 88
1997 -Towards a New Model of Creole Genesis - MCWHORTER :: 2
1997 -Vocal learning in mammals - JANIK,SLATER :: 7
1997 -Primate Cognition - TOMASELLO :: 1
1997 -An Exploration of Signalling Behaviour by both Analytic and Simulation Means for both Discrete and Continuous Models - Bullock :: 11
1997 -The ontogeny of chimpanzee gestural signals: A comparison across groups and generations - TOMASELLO,CALL,WARREN,FROST,CARPENTER,NAGELL :: 5
1997 -Evolutionary Consequences of Language Learning - Niyogi,Berwick :: 29
1997 -Formal Approaches to Innate and Learned Communication: Laying the Foundation for Language - Oliphant :: 25
1997 -Principles of Population Genetics - HARTL,CLARK :: 3
1997 -Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life - HUSBANDS,HARVEY :: 1
1997 -Educating Eve: The `Language Instinct' debate - SAMPSON :: 8
1997 -Learning, culture and evolution in the origin of linguistic constraints - Kirby,Hurford :: 54
1996 -The dilemma of Saussurean communication - Oliphant :: 60
1996 -Eighteen-month-old children learn words in non-ostensive contexts - TOMASELLO,STROSBERG,AKHTAR :: 2
1996 -Do apes ape - TOMASELLO :: 7
1996 -Compemporary Linguistics: An Introduction - O'GRADY,DOBROVOLSKY,KATAMBA :: 1
1996 -An introduction to genetic algorithms - MITCHELL :: 13
1996 -Learning rediscovered - BATES,ELMAN :: 3
1995 -Brain evolution and neurolinguistic preconditions - Wilkins,Wakefield :: 11
1995 -The evolution of understanding: a genetic algorithm model of the evolution of communication - Levin :: 13
1995 -How to invent a lexicon: the development of shared symbols in interaction - Hutchins,Hazlehurst :: 53
1995 -Language: The Basics - TRASK :: 1
1995 -The human symbolic revolution: a Darwinian account - KNIGHT,POWER,WATTS :: 3
1995 -Praxic and nonverbal cognitive deficits in a large family with a genetically transmitted speech and language disorder - VARGHA-KHADEM,WATKINS,ALCOCK,FLETCHER,PASSINGHAM :: 8
1995 -The Minimalist Program - CHOMSKY :: 38
1995 -Learning and morphological change - Hare,Elman :: 41
1994 -Understanding Language Change - MCMAHON :: 11
1994 -Altruism in the evolution of communication - Ackley,Littman :: 39
1994 -Innate biases and critical periods: Combining evolution and learning in the acquisition of syntax - Batali :: 46
1994 -Artificial Life 4: Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems - BROOKS,MAES :: 1
1994 -Impairments of tense in a familial language disorder - GOPNIK :: 7
1994 -Introduction to Government and Binding Theory - HAEGEMAN :: 12
1994 -Learning and evolution in neural networks - NOLFI,ELMAN,PARISI :: 7
1994 -Triggers - GIBSON,WEXLER :: 23
1994 -Learning words in non-ostensive contexts - TOMASELLO,BARTON :: 6
1994 -Selective pressure in evolutionary algorithms - ACK,ACK :: 1
1993 -On the meaning of alarm calls: Functional reference in an avian vocal system - EVANS,EVANS,MARLER :: 5
1993 -Early referential understanding: Infants' ability to recognise referential acts for what they are - BALDWIN :: 2
1993 -Synthetic Ethology and the Evolution of Cooperative Communication - MacLennan,Burghardt :: 40
1993 -Formal Semantics: an introduction - CANN :: 5
1993 -The Lexicon in Acquisition - Clark :: 18
1993 -Learning and development in neural networks: The importance of starting small - Elman :: 33
1993 -The interpersonal origins of self-concept - TOMASELLO :: 1
1993 -Infants' ability to consult the speaker for clues to word reference - BALDWIN :: 4
1992 -The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution - JONES,MARTIN,PILBEAM :: 5
1992 -Evolution of australopithecines - WOOD :: 1
1992 -Evolution of Communication in Artificial Organisms - Werner,Dyer :: 82
1992 -Artificial Life 2: Proceedings of the workshop on Artificial Life held February - LANGTON,TAYLOR,FARMER,RASMUSSEN :: 1
1992 -Constraints on word learning: speculations about their nature, origins, and domain specificity - MARKMAN :: 3
1992 -Interactions between learning and evolution - ACKLEY,LITTMAN :: 11
1992 -Patterns of Language: Structure, Variation, Change - BURLING :: 1
1992 -Evolution of early humans - STRINGER :: 2
1992 -Primate reproduction - MARTIN :: 1
1992 -Evolving networks: Using the genetic algorithm with connectionist learning - BELEW,MCINERNEY,SCHRAUDOLPH :: 5
1991 -Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture - KNIGHT :: 4
1991 -Familial aggregation of a developmental language disorder - GOPNIK,CRAGO :: 20
1991 -Infants' contribution to the achievement of joint reference - BALDWIN :: 7
1991 -Ringtailed lemur anti-predator calls denote predator class, not response urgency - PEREIRA,MACEDONIA :: 2
1991 -Language, tools, and brain: The ontogeny and phylogeny of hierarchically organized sequential behavior - Greenfield :: 11
1990 -A parsing theory of word order universals - HAWKINS :: 6
1990 -On the pragmatics of contrast - CLARK :: 3
1990 -How monkeys see the world: Inside the mind of another species - Cheney,Seyfarth :: 52
1990 -Biological signals as handicaps - GRAFEN :: 29
1990 -Pidgin and creole tense-mood-aspect systems - SINGLER :: 1
1990 -Cultural transmission in the tool use and communicatory signalling of chimpanzees - TOMASELLO :: 1
1990 -Back propagation is sensitive to initial conditions - KOLEN,POLLACK :: 4
1990 -Language and Species - Bickerton :: 87
1990 -The Symbol Grounding Problem - Harnad :: 70
1990 -Beyond the input given: The child's role in the acquisition of language - GOLDIN-MEADOW,MYLANDER :: 2
1990 -Introduction: What is communication - JOHNSON-LAIRD :: 1
1990 -Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom :: 168
1989 -Evolution, selection and cognition: From "learning" to parameter setting in biology and in the study of language - PIATTELLI-PALMARINI :: 6
1989 -From purposive to infinitive -- a universal path of grammaticalization - HASPELMATH :: 1
1989 -Categorization and naming in children: problems of induction - MARKMAN :: 21
1989 -Training feedforward networks using genetic algorithms - MONTANA,DAVIS :: 1
1989 -Biological evolution of the Saussurean sign as a component of the language acquisition device - Hurford :: 102
1988 -Niche-constructing phenotypes - ODLING-SMEE :: 4
1988 -Language and Problems of Knowledge - CHOMSKY :: 13
1988 -Children's use of mutual exclusivity to constrain the meaning of words - MARKMAN,WACHTEL :: 7
1988 -On the logic of contrast - CLARK :: 5
1988 -An Introduction to Language - FROMKIN,RODMAN :: 1
1987 -Language and Number: the emergence of a cognitive system - Hurford :: 26
1987 -How learning can guide evolution - HINTON,NOWLAN :: 31
1986 -Whistle repertoires of two bottlenosed dolphins, Tursiops truncatus: mimicry of signature whistles - TYACK :: 1
1986 -Knowledge of Language: its nature, origin and use - CHOMSKY :: 32
1986 -Vocal development in vervet monkeys - SEYFARTH,CHENEY :: 8
1986 -Learning representations by back-propagating errors - RUMELHART,HINTON,WILLIAMS :: 1
1985 -Crosslinguistic evidence for the language-making capacity - SLOBIN :: 5
1985 -Culture and the Evolutionary Process - BOYD,RICHERSON :: 40
1985 -Acts of identity - LEPAGE,TABOURET-KELLER :: 2
1985 -Iconicity in Syntax - HAIMAN, :: 3
1984 -Language Learnability and Language Development - Pinker :: 21
1984 -The Language Bioprogram Hypothesis - Bickerton :: 30
1984 -Language, thought, and other biological categories: new foundations for realism - MILLIKAN :: 3
1984 -Animal signals: mind-reading and manipulation - KREBS,DAWKINS :: 25
1984 -The Biology and Evolution of Language - Lieberman :: 44
1983 -Cultural beginnings: Plio-pleistocene archaeological occurrences from the Afar, Ethiopia - HARRIS :: 1
1983 -Representational capacity and accessibility of knowledge: The case of chimpanzees - PREMACK :: 1
1982 -Exaptation - a missing term in the science of form - GOULD,VRBA :: 14
1982 -Why nouns are learned before verbs: Linguistic relativity versus natural partitioning - GENTNER :: 3
1982 -Names for things: a study of human learning - MACNAMARA :: 9
1982 -Language acquisition: the state of the art - WANNER,GLEITMAN :: 1
1981 -The second year - KAGAN :: 3
1981 -Roots of language - Bickerton :: 32
1980 -On explaining language change - LASS :: 5
1980 -Rules and Representations - CHOMSKY :: 55
1980 -Laws of analogy - MA :: 2
1980 -The iconicity of grammar: Isomorphism and motivation - HAIMAN :: 3
1980 -Temporal processing, speech perception and hemispheric asymmetry - TALLAL,SCHWARTZ :: 1
1980 -Formal Principles of Language Acquisition - WEXLER,CULICOVER :: 30
1979 -The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian program: A critique of the adaptationist programme - GOULD,LEWONTIN :: 3
1979 -Principles of Diachronic Syntax - LIGHTFOOT :: 5
1978 -Optimization theory in evolution - Maynard-Smith :: 5
1978 -Phonetic analogy and conceptual analogy - VENNEMANN :: 1
1978 -Animal signals: Information or manipulation - DAWKINS,KREBS :: 11
1977 -Syntactic reanalysis - LANGACKER :: 6
1977 -Nepotism and the evolution of alarm calls - SHERMAN :: 5
1977 -Language change in childhood and history - SLOBIN :: 7
1977 -The self and its brain: an argument for interactionism - POPPER :: 1
1975 -On the conflicts between biological and social evolution and between psychological and moral tradition - CAMPBELL :: 1
1975 -Reflections on Language - CHOMSKY :: 28
1975 -Mate selection -- a selection for a handicap - ZAHAVI :: 21
1974 -Decoding the language of the bee - VON FRISCH :: 9
1973 -Cognitive prerequisites for the development of grammar - SLOBIN :: 4
1973 -A First Language - BROWN :: 5
1973 -Primate communication and the gestural origin of language - HEWES :: 13
1973 -Abductive and deductive change - ANDERSEN :: 14
1972 -The cognitive basis of language learning in infants - MACNAMARA :: 4
1972 -Language and Mind - CHOMSKY :: 42
1972 -Sex, covert prestige, and linguistic change in the urban British English of Norwich - TRUDGILL :: 2
1972 -Function, structure and sound change - MARTINET :: 2
1971 -A dynamic model of the evolution of language - BEVER,LANGENDOEN :: 3
1971 -Problems of Knowledge and Freedom - CHOMSKY :: 1
1966 -The social stratification of English in New York City - LABOV :: 4
1966 -Universals of language - GREENBERG :: 12
1965 -Variation and selective retention in sociocultural evolution - CAMPBELL :: 2
1965 -Diachronic syntax and generative grammar - TRAUGOTT :: 1
1965 -Aspects of the Theory of Syntax - CHOMSKY :: 88
1964 -An integrated theory of linguistic descriptions - KATZ,POSTAL :: 2
1964 -The development of the brain and the evolution of language - GESCHWIND :: 2
1963 -The Sumerians: Their History, Culture and Character - KRAMER :: 1
1961 -On Growth and Form - THOMPSON :: 9
1960 -Logical considerations in the study of animal communication - HOCKETT :: 9
1960 -The origin of speech - Hockett :: 24
1958 -The perceptron: A probabistic model for information storage and organization in the brain - ROSENBLATT :: 1
1957 -Specific distinctiveness in the communication signals of birds - MARLER :: 2
1859 -On the Origin of Species - DARWIN :: 9

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