All Outputs (4)

Empirical approaches for investigating the origins of structure in speech (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© John Benjamins Publishing Company. In language evolution research, the use of computational and experimental methods to investigate the emergence of structure in language is exploding. In this review, we look exclusively at work exploring the emerg... Read More about Empirical approaches for investigating the origins of structure in speech.

Conventionalisation and discrimination as competing pressures on continuous speech-like signals (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© John Benjamins Publishing Company. Arbitrary communication systems can emerge from iconic beginnings through processes of conventionalisation via interaction. Here, we explore whether this process of conventionalisation occurs with continuous, audi... Read More about Conventionalisation and discrimination as competing pressures on continuous speech-like signals.

Signal dimensionality and the emergence of combinatorial structure (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. In language, a small number of meaningless building blocks can be combined into an unlimited set of meaningful utterances. This is known as combinatorial structure. One hypothesis for the initial emergence of combinatorial struct... Read More about Signal dimensionality and the emergence of combinatorial structure.

Introduction to the special issue on the emergence of sound systems (2017)
Journal Article

© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com How did human sound systems get to be the way they are? Collecting contributions implementing a wealth of method... Read More about Introduction to the special issue on the emergence of sound systems.