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      Artificial languages created through iterated learning experiments by Kirby, Cornish & Smith (2008) and Cornish (2011). 

      Cornish, Hannah; Smith, Kenny; Kirby, Simon
      This spreadsheet contains data from Hannah Cornish's PhD thesis: "Language Adapts: exploring the cultural dynamics of iterated learning", University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5603 Tables 1-A, 1-B, ...
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      Example videos from Motamedi-Mousavi (2017). Artificial sign language learning: a method for evolutionary linguistics. 

      Motamedi, Yasamin
      This data set contains example videos from the experiments discussed in Yasamin Motamedi's doctoral thesis: "Artificial sign language learning: a method for evolutionary linguistics". The videos correspond to three main ...
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      Data from the paper "Zipf's Law of Abbreviation and the Principle of Least Effort: Language users optimise a miniature lexicon for efficient communication" 

      Kanwal, Jasmeen
      This is the full set of experimental data described in the paper: "Zipf's Law of Abbreviation and the Principle of Least Effort: Language users optimise a miniature lexicon for efficient communication" (2017), by Jasmeen ...
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      Data for Feher, Wonnacott & Smith (2016), Structural priming in artificial languages and the regularisation of unpredictable variation. 

      Smith, Kenny; Wonnacott, Elizabeth; Feher, Olga
      This data set contains data for a study that presented a novel experimental technique using artificial language learning to investigate the relationship between structural priming during communicative interaction, and ...
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      Data from "Language learners privilege structured meaning over surface frequency" 

      Culbertson, Jennifer; Adger, David
      Although it is widely agreed that learning the syntax of natural languages involves acquiring structure-dependent rules, recent work on acquisition has nevertheless attempted to characterize the outcome of learning primarily ...
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      Data from "Simplifying linguistic complexity: Culture and cognition in language evolution", PhD dissertation 

      Saldana, Carmen
      Files containing the set of experimental data discussed in Carmen Saldana's doctoral thesis: "Simplifying linguistic complexity: Culture and cognition in language evolution". You will find the data files corresponding to ...
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      Evolving artificial sign languages in the lab: from improvised gesture to systematic sign (dataset) 

      Motamedi, Yasamin; Schouwstra, Marieke; Smith, Kenny; Culbertson, Jennifer; Kirby, Simon
      This dataset comprises videos recorded for an artificial language learning study in the manual modality. Three experiments were conducted. In experiment 1, pairs of participants communicated about a set of concepts using ...
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      The noun-verb distinction in silent gesture 

      Motamedi, Yasamin; Smith, Kenny; Schouwstra, Marieke; Kirby, Simon
      This dataset comprises data collected in a silent gesture experiment, where participants where asked to communicate events using only gesture. Pairs of participants took part in the study in 3 stages. In stage 1, participants ...
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      Data reported in Jasmeen Kanwal's PhD Thesis Chapter 3 

      Kanwal, Jasmeen
      This is data from the two experiments reported in Chapter 3 ("Word length and predictability in context") of my University of Edinburgh PhD thesis (https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/33051). The experiments are also ...
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      Data from Culbertson et al. (2019) Children’s sensitivity to phonological and semantic cues during noun class learning 

      Culbertson, Jennifer; Smith, Kenny
      Data from Culbertson, J., Jarvinen, H., Haggarty, F., and Smith, K. (2019). Children’s sensitivity to phonological and semantic cues during noun class learning: Evidence for a phonological bias. Language, 95(2):268–293.
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      The emergence of systematic argument distinctions in artificial sign languages (dataset) 

      Motamedi, Yasamin; Schouwstra, Marieke; Smith, Kenny; Culbertson, Jennifer; Kirby, Simon
      The video data stored in this repository are from a lab-based experiment in which hearing English speaking participants were asked to communicate with a partner using only gesture. Participants took part in pairs, and were ...
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      The emergence of word order conventions: improvisation, interaction and transmission 

      Schouwstra, Marieke; Smith, Kenny; Kirby, Simon
      We present an experimental paradigm in which initially-improvised silent gesture is both used for communication and culturally transmitted through artificial generations of lab participants. In experiments 1 and ...
       

       

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