Charles Kemp

The evolution of color naming reflects pressure for efficiency: Evidence from the recent past

Noga Zaslavsky, Karee Garvin, Charles Kemp, Naftali Tishby, Terry Regier

Journal article  |  2022  |  Journal of Language Evolution

Abstract It has been proposed that semantic systems evolve under pressure for efficiency. This hypothesis has so fa..

Comparing constellations across cultures

Charles Kemp, Duane W Hamacher, Daniel R Little, Simon J Cropper

Journal article  |  2022  |  NATURE ASTRONOMY

Perceptual Grouping Explains Similarities in Constellations Across Cultures

Charles Kemp, Duane W Hamacher, Daniel R Little, Simon J Cropper

Journal article  |  2022  |  PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Cultures around the world organize stars into constellations, or asterisms, and these groupings are often considered to be arbitra..

Simplification Is Not Dominant in the Evolution of Chinese Characters.

Simon J Han, Piers Kelly, James Winters, Charles Kemp

Journal article  |  2022  |  Open Mind (Camb)

Linguistic systems are hypothesised to be shaped by pressures towards communicative efficiency that drive processes of simplificat..

Human-like property induction is a challenge for large language models

SJ Han, KJ Ransom, A Perfors, C Kemp

Conference Proceedings  |  2022  |  Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Cognitive Diversity, CogSci 2022

Word formation supports efficient communication: The case of compounds

A Xu, C Kemp, L Frermann, Y Xu

Conference Proceedings  |  2022  |  Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Cognitive Diversity, CogSci 2022

The forms and meanings of grammatical markers support efficient communication

Francis Mollica, Geoff Bacon, Noga Zaslavsky, Yang Xu, Terry Regier, Charles Kemp

Journal article  |  2021  |  PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functionalist accounts of language suggest that forms are paired with meanings in ways that support efficient communication. Previ..

Temporal Continuity and the Judgment of Actual Causation

A Fermo, C Kemp

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Comparative Cognition: Animal Minds, CogSci 2021

Chaining and the growth of linguistic categories

Amir Ahmad Habibi, Charles Kemp, Yang Xu

Journal article  |  2020  |  COGNITION

We explore how linguistic categories extend over time as novel items are assigned to existing categories. As a case study we consi..

An efficient communication analysis of morpho-syntactic grammatical features

F Mollica, C Kemp

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Proceedings for the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Developing a Mind: Learning in Humans, Animals, and Machines, CogSci 2020