The emergence of linguistic structure: an overview of the iterated learning model

By Simon Kirby, J. Hurford. 2002

403 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Cultural Studies, Language and Linguistics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/2ffb5e0d467956522ce81093b3dd711764f7767a

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Communication

1. Morten H. Christiansen
2. N. Chater
3. Y. Seginer
4. Robert F. Port

In Cultural Studies

1. N. Chater
2. Morten H. Christiansen
3. Y. Seginer
4. Robert F. Port

In Language and Linguistics

1. Morten H. Christiansen
2. N. Chater
3. Y. Seginer
4. Robert F. Port

Citations in the corpus

• Language as shaped by the brain. (2008, background): “…note that, in line with the present arguments, a range of recent studies have challenged the plausibility of biological adaptation to arbitrary features of the linguistic environment (e.g., Christiansen et al. 2006; Kirby & Hurford 1997; Kirby et al. 2007; Munroe & Cangelosi 2002; Yamauchi 2001).”
• Rich memory and distributed phonology (2010, background): “The point of these experiments and simulations is to demonstrate that new communication systems can self-organize rather quickly when a need arises (Kirby and Hurford, 2002).”
• Learning syntactic structure (2007, background): “This is not surprising, as it is only the successful learning of language by children which allows natural languages to exist at all and the acquisition process thus defines the range of possible languages (Deacon 1997; Kirby and Hurford 2002; Zuidema 2003).”