Flaherty, M., & Schouwstra, M. (2025). Validating Silent Gesture Lab Studies in a Naturally Emerging Sign Language: How Order is Used to Describe Intensional Versus Extensional Events in Nicaraguan Sign Language. Topics in Cognitive Science, 17(3), 609-624. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12751[details]
Motamedi, Y., Wolters, L., Naegeli, D., Kirby, S., & Schouwstra, M. (2022). From improvisation to learning: How naturalness and systematicity shape language evolution. Cognition, 228, Article 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), Article 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, Article 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]
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
Culbertson, J., Schouwstra, M., & Kirby, S. (2020). From the world to word order: Deriving biases in noun phrase order from statistical properties of the world. Language, 96(3), 696-717. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2020.0045[details]
Sato, A., Schouwstra, M., Flaherty, M., & Kirby, S. (2020). Do all aspects of learning benefit from iconicity? Evidence from motion capture. Language and Cognition, 12(1), 36-55. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2019.37
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
Motamedi, Y., Schouwstra, M., Smith, K., Culbertson, J., & Kirby, S. (2019). Evolving artificial sign languages in the lab: From improvised gesture to systematic sign. Cognition, 192, Article 103964. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.05.001
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
2017
Motamedi, Y., Schouwstra, M., Culbertson, J., Smith, K., & Kirby, S. (2017). The cultural evolution of complex linguistic constructions in artificial sign languages. In CogSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition (pp. 2760-2765). (CogSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition). The Cognitive Science Society.
Schouwstra, M. (2017). Temporal Structure in Emerging Language: From Natural Data to Silent Gesture. Cognitive Science, 41, 928-940. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12441
Schouwstra, M., Kirby, S., & Culbertson, J. (2017). Silent gesture and noun phrase universals. In CogSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition (pp. 3095-3100). (CogSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition). The Cognitive Science Society.
Schouwstra, M., van Leeuwen, A., Marien, N., Smit, M., & de Swart, H. (2011). Semantic structure in improvised communication. In L. Carlson, C. Hoelscher, & T. F. Shipley (Eds.), Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011 (pp. 1497-1502). (Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011). The Cognitive Science Society.
2017
Motamedi, Y., Schouwstra, M., & Kirby, S. (2017). An evolutionary approach to sign language emergence: From state to process. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, e65. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X15003003
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]
Spreker
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.
Andere
Sbardolini, G. (participant), Schouwstra, M. (chair), Degano, M. (organiser) & Roberts, T. (organiser) (2022). 23rd Amsterdam Colloquium (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
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