| 2025 | CogSci | Efficient communication drives the semantic structure of kinship terminology. | Maisy Hallam, Simon Kirby, Fiona Jordan, Kenny Smith |
| 2025 | CogSci | Iterated language learning is shaped by a drive for optimizing lossy compression. | Nathaniel Imel, Jennifer Culbertson, Simon Kirby, Noga Zaslavsky |
| 2025 | CogSci | No directional preference for grammaticalization in semantic extension game. | Anna Kapron-King, Simon Kirby, Graeme Trousdale, Kenny Smith |
| 2025 | CogSci | Segmentation can drive the cultural evolution of the statistical properties of language. | Lucie Wolters, Inbal Arnon, Simon Kirby |
| 2024 | CogSci | Systemic structure of kinship is shaped by evolutionary processes. | Maisy Hallam, Fiona Jordan, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith |
| 2024 | CogSci | Communication and learning pressures result in clustered lexicons. | Aislinn Keogh, Jennifer Culbertson, Simon Kirby |
| 2024 | CogSci | The key property of frequency distributions that facilitates linguistic rule generalisation is long-tailedness. | Elizabeth Pankratz, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson |
| 2024 | CogSci | Emblems and Improvised Gestures are Structured to Guide their Own Detection. | Amanda L. Royka, Gwyneth Heuser, Marieke Schouwstra, Simon Kirby, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2023 | CogSci | Simplicity and Informativeness in the Evolution of Combinatorial Structure. | Matthias Hofer, Simon Kirby, Roger Levy |
| 2023 | CogSci | Does production facilitate learning morphosyntactic generalisations? | Aislinn Keogh, Elizabeth Pankratz, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson |
| 2023 | CogSci | Cognitive biases for word order between numeral, classifier and noun. | Fang Wang, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson |
| 2022 | CogSci | Syntactic harmony arises from a domain-general learning bias. | Jennifer Culbertson, Simon Kirby |
| 2022 | CogSci | Regularization of Word Order in the Verb Phrase differs from the Noun Phrase: Evidence from an online silent gesture perception paradigm. | Monica Lynn Do, Simon Kirby, Susan Goldin-Meadow |
| 2022 | CogSci | The Influence of Category-specific and System-wide Preferences on Cross-Linguistic Word Order Patterns. | Annie Holtz, Simon Kirby, 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 | CogSci | Regularisation, Systematicity and Naturalness in a Silent Gesture Learning Task. | Yasamin Motamedi, Lucie Wolters, Danielle Naegeli, Marieke Schouwstra, Simon Kirby |
| 2021 | CogSci | I Know You Know I'm Signaling: Novel gestures are designed to guide observers' inferences about communicative goals. | Amanda L. Royka, Marieke Schouwstra, Simon Kirby, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2021 | CogSci | A Cognitive Bias for Cross-Category Word Order Harmony. | Fang Wang, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson |
| 2020 | CogSci | Simple kinship systems are more learnable. | Kenny Smith, Stella Frank, Sara Rolando, Simon Kirby, Jia E. Loy |
| 2020 | ICLR | Compositional languages emerge in a neural iterated learning model. | Yi Ren, Shangmin Guo, Matthieu Labeau, Shay B. Cohen, Simon Kirby |
| 2019 | CogSci | Experimental conditions affect how social cues guide the regularisation of unpredictable variation. | Olga Feher, Simon Kirby, 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 | Learning and Production in the Explanation of Regularization Behaviour: a Computational Model. | Chiara Semenzin, Vanessa Ferdinand, Simon Kirby |
| 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 | Is the strength of regularisation behaviour uniform across linguistic levels? | Carmen Saldana, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson |
| 2017 | CogSci | Silent gesture and noun phrase universals. | Marieke Schouwstra, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson |
| 2017 | CogSci | A model of cultural co-evolution of language and mindreading. | Marieke Woensdregt, Simon Kirby, Chris Cummins, Kenny Smith |
| 2016 | CogSci | Cultural Evolution Across Domains: Language, Technology and Art. | Monica Tamariz, Simon Kirby, John W. Carr |
| 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 |
| 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 | A robustness approach to theory building: A case study of language evolution. | Liz Irvine, Sean Roberts, Simon Kirby |
| 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 |
| 2013 | CogSci | Combinatorial structure and iconicity in artificial whistled languages. | Tessa Verhoef, Simon Kirby, Bart de Boer |
| 2011 | CogSci | Integrating the Horizontal and Vertical Cultural Transmission of Novel Communication Systems. | Carrie Theisen-White, Simon Kirby, Jon Oberlander |
| 2011 | CogSci | Cultural emergence of combinatorial structure in an artificial whistled language. | Tessa Verhoef, Simon Kirby, Carol Padden |
| 2006 | ACL | Measuring Language Divergence by Intra-Lexical Comparison. | T. Mark Ellison, Simon Kirby |
| 2002 | AAMAS | Situated Cognition and the Role of Multi-agent Models in Explaining Language Structure. | Henry Brighton, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith |