Cross-linguistic differences in morphological complexity could have important
consequences for language learning. Specifically, it is often assumed that languages with …

Language is a product of both biological and cultural evolution. Clues to the origins of key
structural properties of language can be found in the process of cultural transmission …

Regularity and irregularity are among the most widely invoked notions in linguistics. The
terms are backed up by a long and venerable tradition, and yet (or maybe therefore) different …

The experimental study of language change may provide novel insights into the nature of
language, in particular on the role of cognitive biases and social processes in shaping …

Cultural artifacts, such as language, survive and replicate by passing from mind to mind.
Cultural evolution always proceeds by an inductive process, where behaviors are never …

Amongst the most important questions in the field of language evolution are how and why
linguistic structure emerged, and under which pressures it evolved (Bickerton, 2007) …

Recent iterated language learning studies have shown that artificial languages evolve over
the generations towards regularity. This trend has been explained as a reflection of the …

Human languages are not just tools for transmitting cultural ideas, they are themselves
culturally transmitted. This single observation has major implications for our understanding …

I present a language evolution experiment that integrates two evolutionary pressures (for
learnability and for expressivity) and two directions of language transmission (vertical and …

Iterated Learning Experiments Page 1 Preprint: chapter in The Oxford handbook of
empirical approaches to language evolution 1 Iterated Learning Experiments Monica …