Search Results - "Blythe, Richard A"

How individuals change language by Blythe, Richard A, Croft, William

“…Languages emerge and change over time at the population level though interactions between individual speakers. It is, however, hard to directly observe how a…”
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Learning spatio-temporal patterns with Neural Cellular Automata by Richardson, Alex D, Antal, Tibor, Blythe, Richard A, Schumacher, Linus J

“…Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) are a powerful combination of machine learning and mechanistic modelling. We train NCA to learn complex dynamics from time…”
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Cross‐Situational Learning: An Experimental Study of Word‐Learning Mechanisms by Smith, Kenny, Smith, Andrew D. M., Blythe, Richard A.

“…Cross‐situational learning is a mechanism for learning the meaning of words across multiple exposures, despite exposure‐by‐exposure uncertainty as to the…”
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Resource spectrum engineering by specialist species can shift the specialist-generalist balance by Mills, Catherine G., Allen, Rosalind J., Blythe, Richard A.

“…The mechanisms which influence coexistence of specialist and generalist species in the same environment are a key focus of ecological theory. We use an…”
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Executive functions predict conceptual learning of science by Rhodes, Sinéad M., Booth, Josephine N., Palmer, Lorna Elise, Blythe, Richard A., Delibegovic, Mirela, Wheate, Nial J.

“…We examined the relationship between executive functions and both factual and conceptual learning of science, specifically chemistry, in early adolescence…”
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Simulating the real origins of communication by Blythe, Richard A, Scott-Phillips, Thomas C

“…How communication systems emerge is a topic of relevance to several academic disciplines. Numerous existing models, both mathematical and computational, study…”
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S-CURVES AND THE MECHANISMS OF PROPAGATION IN LANGUAGE CHANGE by Blythe, Richard A., Croft, William

“…A variety of mechanisms have been proposed in sociolinguistics for the propagation of an innovation through the speech community. The complexity of social…”
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Self-contained Beta-with-Spikes approximation for inference under a Wright–Fisher model by Guerrero Montero, Juan, Blythe, Richard A

“…Abstract We construct a reliable estimation method for evolutionary parameters within the Wright–Fisher model, which describes changes in allele frequencies…”
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Conceptual Similarity and Communicative Need Shape Colexification: An Experimental Study by Karjus, Andres, Blythe, Richard A., Kirby, Simon, Wang, Tianyu, Smith, Kenny

“…Colexification refers to the phenomenon of multiple meanings sharing one word in a language. Cross‐linguistic lexification patterns have been shown to be…”
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Colloquium: Hierarchy of scales in language dynamics by Blythe, Richard A.

“…Methods and insights from statistical physics are finding an increasing variety of applications where one seeks to understand the emergent properties of a…”
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Stochastic dynamics of lexicon learning in an uncertain and nonuniform world by Reisenauer, Rainer, Smith, Kenny, Blythe, Richard A

“…We study the time taken by a language learner to correctly identify the meaning of all words in a lexicon under conditions where many plausible meanings can be…”
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Spatiotemporally complete condensation in a non-Poissonian exclusion process by Concannon, Robert J, Blythe, Richard A

“…We investigate a non-Poissonian version of the asymmetric simple exclusion process, motivated by the observation that coarse graining the interactions between…”
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Assembly of microbial communities in replicate nutrient‐cycling model ecosystems follows divergent trajectories, leading to alternate stable states by Pagaling, Eulyn, Vassileva, Kristin, Mills, Catherine G., Bush, Timothy, Blythe, Richard A., Schwarz‐Linek, Jana, Strathdee, Fiona, Allen, Rosalind J., Free, Andrew

“…Summary We studied in detail the reproducibility of community development in replicate nutrient‐cycling microbial microcosms that were set up identically and…”
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Word learning under infinite uncertainty by Blythe, Richard A., Smith, Andrew D.M., Smith, Kenny

“…Language learners must learn the meanings of many thousands of words, despite those words occurring in complex environments in which infinitely many meanings…”
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How do communication systems emerge? by Scott-Phillips, Thomas C, Blythe, Richard A, Gardner, Andy, West, Stuart A

“…Communication involves a pair of behaviours—a signal and a response—that are functionally interdependent. Consequently, the emergence of communication involves…”
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Why is combinatorial communication rare in the natural world, and why is language an exception to this trend? by Scott-Phillips, Thomas C., Blythe, Richard A.

“…In a combinatorial communication system, some signals consist of the combinations of other signals. Such systems are more efficient than equivalent,…”
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Challenges in detecting evolutionary forces in language change using diachronic corpora by Karjus, Andres, Blythe, Richard A., Kirby, Simon, Smith, Kenny

“…Newberry et al. (Detecting evolutionary forces in language change, Nature 551, 2017) tackle an important but difficult problem in linguistics, the testing of…”
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Learning Times for Large Lexicons Through Cross‐Situational Learning by Blythe, Richard A., Smith, Kenny, Smith, Andrew D. M.

“…Cross‐situational learning is a mechanism for learning the meaning of words across multiple exposures, despite exposure‐by‐exposure uncertainty as to a word's…”
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Building social cognitive models of language change by Hruschka, Daniel J, Christiansen, Morten H, Blythe, Richard A, Croft, William, Heggarty, Paul, Mufwene, Salikoko S, Pierrehumbert, Janet B, Poplack, Shana

“…Studies of language change have begun to contribute to answering several pressing questions in cognitive sciences, including the origins of human language…”
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Fast fixation with a generic network structure by Baxter, Gareth J, Blythe, Richard A, McKane, Alan J

“…We investigate the dynamics of a broad class of stochastic copying processes on a network that includes examples from population genetics (spatially structured…”
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