Publications
Journal Articles
Silvey, C., Gentner, D., Richland, L. E., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2023). Children’s early spontaneous comparisons predict later analogical reasoning skills: An investigation of parental influence. Open Mind, 7, 483-509. doi: 10.1162/opmi_a_00093 Data and analysis scripts
Silvey, C., Dienes, Z., & Wonnacott, E. (2021). Bayes factors for mixed-effects models. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/m4hju Simulation scripts
Silvey, C., Demir-Lira, Ö. E., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Raudenbush, S. (2021). Effects of time-varying parent input on children's language outcomes differ for vocabulary and syntax. Psychological Science. doi: 10.1177/0956797620970559 Analysis and simulation scripts
Silvey, C., Kirby, S., & Smith, K. (2019). Communication increases category structure and alignment only when combined with cultural transmission. Journal of Memory and Language, 109, 104051. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2019.104051 Data and analysis scripts
Silvey, C., Kirby, S., & Smith, K. (2015). Word meanings evolve to selectively preserve distinctions on salient dimensions. Cognitive Science, 39(1), 212-226. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12150
Other Articles
Silvey, C. (2016). Speaking Our Minds: Why human communication is different, and how language evolved to make it special, by Thom Scott-Phillips. Journal of Language Evolution. doi: 10.1093/jole/lzv002
Silvey, C. (2014). Functions of language: Communication is basic, categorisation is derived. Response to dialog initiated by Katarina Pastra. AMD Newsletter, 11(1), 8-9.
Silvey, C., & Smith, K. (2014). Mechanisms of cultural transmission and language learning. In P. J. Brooks & V. Kempe (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of language development. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
Conference Proceedings
Silvey, C., Gentner, D., Richland, L. E., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2017). Children's spontaneous comparions from 26-58 months predict performance in verbal and non-verbal analogy tests in 6th grade. In G.Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1072-1077. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Silvey, C., Demir-Lira, Ö. E., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2016). Children’s status and growth in word types at 20 months predicts age of onset of complex syntax. Boston University Conference on Language Development, 41.
Silvey, C., & Christodoulopoulos, C. (2016). Children's production of determiners: A test case for innate syntactic categories. In S. G. Roberts, C. Cuskley, L. McCrohon, L. Barceló-Coblijn, O. Feher, & T. Verhoef (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (EVOLANG11). doi:10.17617/2.2248195.
Silvey, C., Flaherty, M., Goldin-Meadow, S., Kirby, S., & Smith, K. (2016). Communication without a language model inhibits the emergence of systematic structure. In S. G. Roberts, C. Cuskley, L. McCrohon, L. Barceló-Coblijn, O. Feher, & T. Verhoef (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (EVOLANG11). doi:10.17617/2.2248195.
Silvey, C. (2014). The origins of word meaning. In E. A. Cartmill, S. Roberts, H. Lyn, & H. Cornish (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference (EVOLANG10). Singapore: World Scientific.
Thompson, B., Silvey, C., Kirby, S., & Smith, K. (2014). The effect of communication on category structure. In E. A. Cartmill, S. Roberts, H. Lyn, & H. Cornish (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference (EVOLANG10). Singapore: World Scientific.
Silvey, C., Kirby, S., & Smith, K. (2013). Communication leads to the emergence of sub-optimal category structures. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1312-1317. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Other Presentations
Silvey, C. (2017). Children's specific comparisons and later analogical skill. Invited talk at Northwestern University, May 2017.
Silvey, C. (2015). Linguistic categories are shaped by communication and cultural transmission. Invited talk at UW Madison, February 2015.
Little, H., & Silvey, C. (2014). Interpreting emerging structures: The interdependence of combinatoriality and compositionality. Talk at IACS 2014, Lund, Sweden.
Silvey, C., Kirby, S., & Smith, K. (2014). Learning and communication jointly align pairs' category systems. Poster at AMLaP 2014, Edinburgh, UK.
Silvey, C., Kirby, S., & Smith, K. (2013). Communication leads to the emergence of sub-optimal category structures. Talk at AMLaP 2013, Marseille, France. Nominated for best talk.
Silvey, C., Kirby, S., Smith, K. (2012). The coevolution of words and meanings. Poster at EHBEA 2012, Durham, UK.
