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Dr. M. (Marieke) Schouwstra

Faculty of Humanities
Capaciteitsgroep Taalwetenschap

Visiting address
  • Spuistraat 134
Postal address
  • Postbus 1642
    1000 BP Amsterdam
Contact details
  • Publications

    2022

    2021

    • 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., Smith, K., Schouwstra, M., Culbertson, J., & Kirby, S. (2021). The emergence of systematic argument distinctions in artificial sign languages. Journal of Language Evolution, 6(2), 77-98. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/p6zy4, https://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzab002 [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]

    2020

    • Carcassi, F., Schouwstra, M., & Kirby, S. (2020). The Advantage of Extreme Meanings in Cultural Evolution. In The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference

    2019

    • Carcassi, F., Schouwstra, M., & Kirby, S. (2019). The Evolution of Adjectival Monotonicity. In M. T. Espinal, E. Castroviejo, M. Leonetti, L. McNally, & C. Real-Puigdollers (Eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 23 (Vol. 1, pp. 219-230). Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2019.v23i1.512
    • 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) (9-6-2021). Improvisation: A Fundamental Process in Language Emergence, Nijmegen Gesture Centre, Radbout/MPI, Nijmegen. https://nijmegengesturecentre.wordpress.com/events/
    • Schouwstra, M. (speaker) (26-3-2021). Semantic conditioning and regularity: evidence from artificial sign language learning and Nicaraguan Sign Language.

    Others

    • Sbardolini, G. (participant), Schouwstra, M. (chair), Degano, M. (organiser) & Roberts, T. (organiser) (2022). 23rd Amsterdam Colloquium (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
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