Gareth Roberts

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University of Pennsylvania

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Gareth Roberts is an Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in the fields of linguistics and language evolution. His recent research examines topics such as the impact of social biases on language efficiency, the emergence of phonological structures through communicative interactions, and the role of variability in language acquisition. Professor Roberts holds a keen interest in the intersection of sociolinguistics and language change.

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Key factors in the emergence of combinatorial structure: An experimental and computational approach

Open Date: 2020-04-01

Close Date: 2022-03-31

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Betsy Sneller

Assistant Professor of Linguistics

Michigan State University

UNITED STATES

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Lacey Wade

University of Kansas

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Joshua B. Plotkin

University of Pennsylvania

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Social biases can lead to less communicatively efficient languages

Quality, not quantity, impacts the differentiation of near-synonyms

Co‐Occurrence, Extension, and Social Salience: The Emergence of Indexicality in an Artificial Language

The emergence of phonological dispersion through interaction: an exploratory secondary analysis of a communicative game

Variability in speaker expectations of morphosyntactic mutation in Welsh

Drift as a Driver of Language Change: An Artificial Language Experiment

What we talk about when we talk about colors

Empirical foundations for an integrated study of language evolution

Dispersion, communication, and alignment: an experimental study of the emergence of structure in combinatorial phonology

Experience with a linguistic variant affects the acquisition of its sociolinguistic meaning: An alien‐language‐learning experiment

Linguistic convergence to observed versus expected behavior in an alien‐language map task

Collaborators (3)

Betsy Sneller

Lacey Wade

Joshua B. Plotkin

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