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Andrew D.M. Smith's Publications

You should be able to download all my publications from here (with the exception of some of the older cancer ones). If any of the links don't work, please drop me a note at:

a n d r e w @ ling.ed.ac.uk

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Recent Additions

Systematicity

Cross-situational Learning

Grammaticalisation



Publications

Journal Articles

  • Richard A. Blythe, Kenny Smith and Andrew D. M. Smith (in press)
    Learning times for large lexicons through cross-situational learning
    Cognitive Science
    PDF
  • Stefan H. Hoefler and Andrew D. M. Smith (2009)
    The pre-linguistic basis of grammaticalisation: A unified approach to metaphor and reanalysis
    Studies in Language 33(4): 883-906
    PDF (Draft)
  • Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby & Andrew D. M. Smith (2008)
    The brain plus the cultural transmission mechanism determine the nature of language
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31(5):533-534
    PDF
  • Andrew D. M. Smith (2008)
    Protolanguage Reconstructed
    Interaction Studies 9(1):98-114
    PDF
  • Andrew D. M. Smith (2007)
    review of Bart de Boer's
    The Origins of Vowel Systems
    Lingua117(4):721-726
    PDF
  • Andrew D. M. Smith (2006)
    Oral History: a review of Guy Deutscher's
    The Unfolding of Language: an evolutionary tour of mankind's greatest invention
    American Scientist 94(1): 75-76
    PDF
  • Andrew D. M. Smith (2005)
    The Inferential Transmission of Language
    Adaptive Behavior 13(4):311-324
    PDF
  • Paul Vogt & Andrew D. M. Smith (2005)
    Learning Colour Words is Slow: a cross-situational learning account
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28(4): 509-510
    HTML
  • Andrew D. M. Smith (2003)
    Intelligent Meaning Creation in A Clumpy World Helps Communication
    Artificial Life 9(2): 175-190
    postscript PDF
  • Andrew D. M. Smith (2002)
    review of Luisa Maffi's
    On Biocultural Diversity: linking language, culture and the environment
    The Quarterly Review of Biology 77(1): 102-103

Book Chapters

  • Andrew D. M. Smith (forthcoming)
    Grammaticalisation and Language Evolution
    in B. Heine and H. Narrog (eds): Handbook of Grammaticalization
  • Andrew D. M. Smith (forthcoming)
    The Cognitive Origins of Linguistic Complexity
    in M. Aldridge and J. Luchjenbroers (eds.): New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics
  • Andrew D. M. Smith (2007)
    Language Change and the Inference of Meaning
    in C. Lyon, C. Nehaniv and A. Cangelosi (eds.): Emergence of Communication and Language. pp. 323-337. Springer.
    ISBN 1-84628-491-0
    PDF
  • Kenny Smith, Andrew D. M. Smith, Richard A. Blythe and Paul Vogt (2006)
    Cross-situational learning: a mathematical approach
    in P. Vogt, Y. Sugita, E. Tuci and C. Nehaniv (eds.): Symbol Grounding and Beyond. pp.31-44. Springer
    PDF
  • Andrew D. M. Smith (2005)
    Mutual Exclusivity: Communicative Success Despite Conceptual Divergence
    in M. Tallerman (ed.): Language Origins: perspectives on evolution, pp. 372-388. Oxford University Press.
    ISBN 0-19-027904-7
    PDF

Books

  • Andrew D. M. Smith, Marieke Schouwstra, Bart de Boer and Kenny Smith (2010)
    The Evolution of Language (EVOLANG 8)
    World Scientific Press.
    ISBN
  • Andrew D. M. Smith, Kenny Smith and Ramon Ferrer i Cancho (eds.) (2008)
    The Evolution of Language (EVOLANG 7)
    World Scientific Press.
    ISBN 981-277-611-7
    from amazon.co.uk
  • Angelo Cangelosi, Andrew D. M. Smith and Kenny Smith (eds.) (2006)
    The Evolution of Language
    World Scientific Press.
    ISBN 981-256-656-2
    from amazon.co.uk
    from World Scientific

Conference Proceedings

  • Andrew D. M. Smith, Barbora Skarabela and Monica Tamariz (2010)
    Exploring the nature of a systematicity bias: an experimental study
    in A. D. M. Smith, M. Schouwstra, B. de Boer and K. Smith (eds.): The Evolution of Language (EVOLANG 8): Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, pp. 289-296.
    PDF
  • Andrew D. M. Smith, Kenny Smith and Richard A. Blythe (forthcoming)
    When and How Do Humans Use Cross-Situational Learning?
    in Boston University Conference on Language Development 34
    PDF (Abstract)
  • Kenny Smith, Andrew D. M. Smith and Richard A. Blythe (2009)
    Reconsidering human cross-situational learning capacities: a revision to Yu and Smith's (2007) experimental paradigm
    in N. Taatgen and H. van Rijn (eds.):pp. 2711-2716. Proceedings of the 31st International Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
    PDF
  • Stefan Hoefler and Andrew D. M. Smith (2008)
    Reanalysis vs Metaphor: What grammaticalisation can tell us about language evolution
    in A. D. M. Smith, K. Smith and R. Ferrer i Cancho (eds.): The Evolution of Language (EVOLANG 7): Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, pp. 163-170.
    PDF
  • Monica Tamariz and Andrew D. M. Smith (2008)
    Regularity in Mappings Between Signals and Meanings
    in A. D. M. Smith, K. Smith and R. Ferrer i Cancho (eds.): The Evolution of Language (EVOLANG 7): Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, pp. 315-322.
    PDF
  • Andrew D. M. Smith (2006)
    Uncertainty and the origin of linguistic complexity
    in W. Winkler (ed.): The Cradle of Language Conference, pp. 97-98.
    PDF
  • Andrew D. M. Smith (2006)
    Semantic reconstructibility and the complexification of language
    in A. Cangelosi, A. D. M. Smith and K. Smith (eds.): The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, pp. 307-314.
    PDF
  • Andrew D. M. Smith (2005)
    Stable communication through dynamic language
    in Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication, pp. 135-142.
    PDF
  • Andrew D. M. Smith (2004)
    The inferential transmission of language: acquisition, change, evolution
    in Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meeting of the Human Behaviour and Evolution Society
    PDF
  • Andrew D. M. Smith (2004)
    Overcoming semantic differences through mutual exclusivity
    in Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Evolution of Language
    PDF
  • Andrew D. M. Smith and Paul Vogt (2004)
    Lexicon acquisition in an uncertain world
    in Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Evolution of Language
    PDF
  • Paul Vogt and Andrew D. M. Smith (2004)
    Quantifying Lexicon Acquisition under Uncertainty
    in T. Lenaerts, A. Nowe and K. Steenhout (eds.): Proceedings of the Annual Machine Learning Conference of Belgium and the Netherlands (Benelearn)
    postscript PDF
  • Andrew D. M. Smith (2003)
    Semantic Generalisation and the Inference of Meaning
    in Wolfgang Banzhaf et al. (eds.): Advances in Artificial Life (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Vol. 2801), pp. 499-506. Springer-Verlag.
    postscript PDF
  • Andrew D. M. Smith (2001)
    Establishing Communication Systems without Explicit Meaning Transmission
    in Josef Kelemen and Petr Sosík (eds.): Advances in Artificial Life (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Vol. 2159), pp. 381-390. Springer-Verlag.
    postscript PDF

PhD Thesis

  • Andrew D. M. Smith (2003)
    Evolving Communication through the Inference of Meaning.
    PhD thesis, Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh.
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Invited Talks

Presentations at International Conferences



Cancer Epidemiology

All of the cancer epidemiology work was done while I was working at the Northern and Yorkshire Cancer Registry & Information Service and its predecessors, but unfortunately a lot of them aren't available electronically. If any of these specific links no longer work, then check the NYCRIS website, where information about them should be available.
Journal Articles
All of the books below were published by the Northern and Yorkshire Cancer Registry & Information Service. If the links no longer work, check the NYCRIS website, where information about them should be available.
Books