He is a creator, together with members of the experimental pop band FOUND, of Cybraphon, an "autonomous emotional robot band" in a wardrobe,[1] which won a BAFTA in 2009.[2]
Publications
Kirby has published over 52 articles, chapters, and other publications, including the books:
Christiansen, M. and Kirby, S. (2003). Language Evolution. Oxford University Press.
Kirby, S. (1999). Function, Selection and Innateness: the Emergence of Language Universals. Oxford University Press.
and the peer-reviewed journal articles:
Kirby, S., Dowman, M. and Griffiths, T. (2007) Innateness and culture in the evolution of language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(12):5241-5245.
Brighton, H. and Kirby, S. (2006). Understanding linguistic evolution by visualizing the emergence of topographic mappings. Artificial Life, 12(2):229-242.
Brighton, H., Smith, K., and Kirby, S. (2005). Language as evolutionary system. Physics of Life Reviews, 2:177-226.
Kirby, S. (2004). Bias, innateness and domain specificity. Journal of Child Language, 31:927-930.
Kirby, S., Smith, K., and Brighton, H. (2004). From UG to universals: linguistic adaptation through iterated learning. Studies in Language, 28(3):587-607.
Christiansen, M. H. and Kirby, S. (2003). Language evolution: Consensus and controversies. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7(7):300-307.
Miranda, E. R., Kirby, S., and Todd, P. M. (2003). On computational models of the evolution of music: From the origins of musical taste to the emergence of grammars. Contemporary Music Review, 22(3):91-111.
Smith, K., Brighton, H., and Kirby, S. (2003). Complex systems in language evolution: the cultural emergence of compositional structure. Advances in Complex Systems, 6(4):537-558.
Smith, K., Kirby, S., and Brighton, H. (2003). Iterated learning: a framework for the emergence of language. Artificial Life, 9(4):371-386.
Kirby, S. (2002). Natural language from artificial life. Artificial Life, 8(2):185-215.
Wheeler, M., Bullock, S., Paolo, E. A. D., Noble, J., Bedau, M., Husbands, P., Kirby, S., and Seth, A. (2002). The view from elsewhere: Perspectives on Alife modeling. Artificial Life, 8(1):97-100.
Kirby, S. (2001). Spontaneous evolution of linguistic structure: an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and irregularity. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 5(2):102-110.
Todd, P. and Kirby, S. (2001). I like what I know: How recognition-based decisions can structure the environment. In Kelemen, J. and Sosik, P., editors, Advances in Artificial Life. Springer.
Kirby, S. (2000). The role of I-language in diachronic adaptation. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 18(2).
Kirby, S. (1998). Motivations concurrentes et emergence comme explications des hierarchies implicationnelles. Verbum, XX(3):309-336.
Hurford, J., Joseph, S., Kirby, S., and Reid, A. (1997). Evolution might select constructivism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 20:567-568.
Kirby, S. (1997). Competing motivations and emergence: explaining implicational hierarchies. Language Typology, 1(1):5-32.
Kirby, S. and Hurford, J. (1995). Neural preconditions for proto-language. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 18(1):193-194.
Kirby, S. (1994). Adaptive explanations for language universals: a model of Hawkins' performance theory. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, 47:186-210.
