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Motamedi, Y., Wolters, L., Naegeli, D., Kirby, S., & Schouwstra, M. (2022). From improvisation to learning: How naturalness and systematicity shape language evolution. Cognition, 228, [105206]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105206[details]
Motamedi, Y., Wolters, L., Schouwstra, M., & Kirby, S. (2022). The Effects of Iconicity and Conventionalization on Word Order Preferences. Cognitive Science, 46(10), [e13203]. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13203[details]
Schouwstra, M., Naegeli, D., & Kirby, S. (2022). Investigating Word Order Emergence: Constraints From Cognition and Communication. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, [805144]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.805144[details]
Kirton, F., Kirby, S., Smith, K., Culbertson, J., & Schouwstra, M. (2021). Constituent order in silent gesture reflects the perspective of the producer. Journal of Language Evolution, 6(1), 54-76. https://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzaa010[details]
Motamedi, Y., Wolters, L., Naegeli, D., Schouwstra, M., & Kirby, S. (2021). Regularisation, Systematicity and Naturalness in a Silent Gesture Learning Task. In 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2021): Comparative Cognition Animal Minds : Vienna, Austria, 26-29 July 2021 (Vol. 3, pp. 1451-1457). (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society; Vol. 43). Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8xf3216h[details]
Royka, A., Schouwstra, M., Kirby, S., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (2021). I Know You Know I’m Signaling: Novel gestures are designed to guide observers’ inferences about communicative goals. In 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2021): Comparative Cognition Animal Minds : Vienna, Austria, 26-29 July 2021 (Vol. 2, pp. 1009). (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society; Vol. 43). Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9cz7t06g[details]
Schouwstra, M., de Swart, H., & Thompson, B. (2019). Interpreting Silent Gesture: Cognitive Biases and Rational Inference in Emerging Language Systems. Cognitive Science, 43(7). https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12732
2010
Smith, A. D. M., Schouwstra, M., de Boer, B., & Smith, K. (Eds.) (2010). The evolution of language: proceedings of the 8th International Conference (EVOLANG8): Utrecht, Netherlands, 14-17 April 2010. World Scientific. https://doi.org/10.1142/7624[details]
Talk / presentation
Schouwstra, M. (speaker) (24-10-2021). Semantic reversibility and the noisy channel account of word order variation, Peripatetic Conference on Cognitive Systems Modelling, Zakopane.
Schouwstra, M. (speaker) (26-3-2021). Semantic conditioning and regularity: evidence from artificial sign language learning and Nicaraguan Sign Language.
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