We grow languages: introduction video By Marieke Schouwstra and Simon Kirby. In this video, I explain what it means to study the emergence of language in the lab:…
What can a spotty toothbrush tell us about language biases? To showcase our paper From the world to word order: deriving biases in noun phrase order from statistical…
This blog post was featured on A Year of Conversation, and linked to an event organised by the Royal Society of Edinburgh. By Marieke Schouwstra. I am an evolutionary…
Overview of publications Here we will keep a list of the scientific publications of our project. In this paper, we investigate what happens when people use gesture and…