| 2026 | EACL | Recursive numeral systems are highly regular and easy to process. | Ponrawee Prasertsom, Andrea Silvi, Jennifer Culbertson, Devdatt P. Dubhashi, Moa Johansson, Kenny Smith |
| 2025 | CogSci | Efficient communication drives the semantic structure of kinship terminology. | Maisy Hallam, Simon Kirby, Fiona Jordan, Kenny Smith |
| 2025 | CogSci | The Impact of Similar Place Avoidance on Novel Word Learning in Adults. | Annie Holtz, Kenny Smith, Mitsuhiko Ota |
| 2025 | CogSci | No directional preference for grammaticalization in semantic extension game. | Anna Kapron-King, Simon Kirby, Graeme Trousdale, Kenny Smith |
| 2025 | CogSci | Beyond Crosslinguistic Influence: Mandarin Speakers with Exposure to Null-subject Languages Nonetheless Use Fewer Null Pronouns in Mandarin. | Yajun Liu, Antonella Sorace, Kenny Smith |
| 2025 | CogSci | Do bilinguals avoid ambiguity? An experimental study of lexical ambiguity in spoken Mandarin. | Yajun Liu, Antonella Sorace, Kenny Smith |
| 2025 | CogSci | The learnability of sign language morphology: an experimental study. | Katie Mudd, Neil Fox, Kenny Smith, Adam Schembri |
| 2025 | CogSci | Testing counterintuitive predictions about cost-based inferences in learning from the Rational Speech Act model. | Ponrawee Prasertsom, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson |
| 2024 | CogSci | Representations as Language: An Information-Theoretic Framework for Interpretability. | Henry Conklin, Kenny Smith |
| 2024 | CogSci | Systemic structure of kinship is shaped by evolutionary processes. | Maisy Hallam, Fiona Jordan, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith |
| 2024 | CogSci | Testing the Effects of the Implicative Structure and Noun Class Size on the Learnability of Inflectional Paradigms in Adults and Artificial Neural Networks. | Tamar Johnson, Micha Elsner, Kenny Smith |
| 2024 | CogSci | Coordination, rather than pragmatics, shapes colexification when the pressure for efficiency is low. | Alexey Koshevoy, Isabelle Dautriche, Olivier Morin, Kenny Smith |
| 2024 | CogSci | Variability in communication contexts determines the convexity of semantic category systems emerging in neural networks. | Vlad C. Nedelcu, Daniel Lassiter, Kenny Smith |
| 2024 | CogSci | Domain-general categorisation principles explain the prevalence of animacy and absence of colour in noun classification systems. | Ponrawee Prasertsom, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson |
| 2024 | CogSci | Simplifications made early in learning can reshape language complexity: an experimental test of the Linguistic Niche Hypothesis. | Kenny Smith |
| 2024 | CogSci | Agreement marking can benefit child learners. | Shira Tal, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson |
| 2024 | ICLR | lpNTK: Better Generalisation with Less Data via Sample Interaction During Learning. | Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Stefano V. Albrecht, Kenny Smith |
| 2023 | CogSci | Degree of heterogeneity in the contexts of language users mediates the cognitive-communicative trade-off in semantic categorization. | Vlad C. Nedelcu, Kenny Smith, Daniel Lassiter |
| 2023 | CogSci | The Relationship Between Frequency and Irregularity in the Evolution of Linguistic Structure: An Experimental Study. | Kenny Smith, Clem Ashton, Helen Sims-Williams |
| 2023 | CogSci | Communicative efficiency is present in young children and becomes more adult-like with age. | Shira Tal, Kenny Smith, Inbal Arnon, Jennifer Culbertson |
| 2023 | ICLR | Compositionality with Variation Reliably Emerges in Neural Networks. | Henry Conklin, Kenny Smith |
| 2022 | CogSci | An experimental study of semantic extension in a novel communication system. | Josephine Bowerman, Kenny Smith |
| 2022 | CogSci | Intertwining Generalization and Memorization. | Henry Coxe-Conklin, Kenny Smith |
| 2022 | CogSci | The complexity of a language is shaped by the communicative needs of its users and by the hierarchical nature of their social inferences. | Vlad C. Nedelcu, Kenny Smith |
| 2022 | CogSci | Agreement can facilitate learning of noun class systems. | Shira Tal, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson |
| 2022 | ICLR | Expressivity of Emergent Languages is a Trade-off between Contextual Complexity and Unpredictability. | Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Kory Wallace Mathewson, Simon Kirby, Stefano V. Albrecht, Kenny Smith |
| 2021 | ACL | Meta-Learning to Compositionally Generalize. | Henry Conklin, Bailin Wang, Kenny Smith, Ivan Titov |
| 2020 | CogSci | Modelling the Emergence of Positional Compositional Structure. | Henry Coxe-Conklin, Stella Frank, Robert Truswell, Kenny Smith |
| 2020 | CogSci | Learner dynamics in a model of wug inflection: integrating frequency and phonology. | Stella Frank, Kenny Smith, Christine F. Cuskley |
| 2020 | CogSci | Influence of partner behaviour on overspecification. | Jia E. Loy, Kenny Smith |
| 2020 | CogSci | Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Perspective-taking in a language game. | Johanne Nedergaard, Kenny Smith |
| 2020 | CogSci | Rational After All: Changes in Probability Matching Behaviour Across Time in Humans and Monkeys. | Carmen Saldana, Nicolas Claidire, Jol Fagot, Kenny Smith |
| 2020 | CogSci | Simple kinship systems are more learnable. | Kenny Smith, Stella Frank, Sara Rolando, Simon Kirby, Jia E. Loy |
| 2019 | CogSci | From wugged to wug: Reverse generalisation of stems from novel past tense verbs. | Christine F. Cuskley, Stella Frank, Kenny Smith |
| 2019 | CogSci | Experimental conditions affect how social cues guide the regularisation of unpredictable variation. | Olga Feher, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith |
| 2019 | CogSci | Language stability and change in age-dependent networks. | Stella Frank, Kenny Smith |
| 2019 | CogSci | Assessing Integrative Complexity as a Measure of Morphological Learning. | Tamar Johnson, Jennifer Culbertson, Hugh Rabagliati, Kenny Smith |
| 2019 | CogSci | Cumulative cultural evolution in a non-copying task in children and Guinea baboons. | Carmen Saldana, Jol Fagot, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith, Nicolas Claidire |
| 2019 | CogSci | Acquiring Agglutinating and Fusional Languages Can Be Similarly Difficult: Evidence from an Adaptive Tracking Study. | Svenja Wagner, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson |
| 2018 | CogSci | Do children privilege phonological cues in noun class learning? | Jennifer Culbertson, Hanna Jarvinen, Frances Haggarty, Kenny Smith |
| 2018 | CogSci | A model of linguistic accommodation leading to language simplification. | Stella Frank, Kenny Smith |
| 2018 | CogSci | Emerging abstractions: Lexical conventions are shaped by communicative context. | Robert X. D. Hawkins, Michael Franke, Kenny Smith, Noah D. Goodman |
| 2017 | CogSci | The differential effects of transmission and interaction on linguistic variation. | Olga Feher, Kenny Smith |
| 2017 | CogSci | Language-users choose short words in predictive contexts in an artificial language task. | Jasmeen Kanwal, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson, Simon Kirby |
| 2017 | CogSci | The cultural evolution of complex linguistic constructions in artificial sign languages. | Yasamin Motamedi, Marieke Schouwstra, Jennifer Culbertson, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby |
| 2017 | CogSci | Iconicity vs. Systematicity in Artificial Language Learning. | Alan Ks Nielsen, Julia Simner, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith |
| 2017 | CogSci | The dot perspective task revisited: Evidence for directional effects. | Cathleen O'Grady, Thom Scott-Phillips, Suilin Lavelle, Kenny Smith |
| 2017 | CogSci | Is the strength of regularisation behaviour uniform across linguistic levels? | Carmen Saldana, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson |
| 2017 | CogSci | The influence of word-order harmony on structural priming in artificial languages. | Kenny Smith, Olga Feher, Jennifer Culbertson |
| 2017 | CogSci | A model of cultural co-evolution of language and mindreading. | Marieke Woensdregt, Simon Kirby, Chris Cummins, Kenny Smith |
| 2016 | CogSci | The cultural evolution of cognition. | Sieghard Beller, Andrea Bender, Christine A. Caldwell, Morten H. Christiansen, Karenleigh A. Overmann, Kenny Smith |
| 2016 | CogSci | The Emergence of Conventions. | Robert X. D. Hawkins, Noah D. Goodman, Olga Feher, Kenny Smith, Robert L. Goldstone, Tom Griffiths |
| 2016 | CogSci | Modelling the co-development of word learning and perspective-taking. | Marieke Woensdregt, Simon Kirby, Chris Cummins, Kenny Smith |
| 2014 | CogSci | Social influences on the regularization of unpredictable linguistic variation. | Olga Feher, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith |
| 2014 | CogSci | Eliminating unpredictable linguistic variation through interaction. | Kenny Smith, Olga Feher, Nikolaus Ritt |
| 2013 | CogSci | Systems from Sequences: an Iterated Learning Account of the Emergence of Systematic Structure in a Non-Linguistic Task. | Hannah Cornish, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby |
| 2013 | CogSci | Regularization behavior in a non-linguistic domain. | Vanessa Ferdinand, Bill Thompson, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith |
| 2013 | CogSci | Communication Leads to the Emergence of Sub-optimal Category Structures. | Catriona Silvey, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith |
| 2013 | CogSci | Linguistic structure is an evolutionary trade-off between simplicity and expressivity. | Kenny Smith, Monica Tamariz, Simon Kirby |
| 2013 | CogSci | Learning, Feedback and Information in Self-Organizing Communication Systems. | Matthew Spike, Kevin Stadler, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith |
| 2002 | AAMAS | Situated Cognition and the Role of Multi-agent Models in Explaining Language Structure. | Henry Brighton, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith |