Gareth Roberts

January 2020

• Sayeed, O, Zehr, J., and Roberts, G. “The role of probabilistic learning in morphological complexity reduction: Results from an artificial language experiment.” Poster at LSA 2021.

October 2020

• Roberts, G. “Variation and change in alien languages.” Keynote at 14th annual Arizona Linguistics Circle.

September 2020

• Roberts, G. and Fedzechkina, M. “Social and communicative biases jointly influence morphological choices in learning” Poster at the 26th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference (AMLAP 2020)

July 2020

• Fedzechkina, M. and Roberts G. “Learners sacrifice robust communication as a result of a social bias.” Poster at 42nd annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2020).

April 2020

• Roberts, G. and Clark R. “The emergence of phonology-like organization in a quasi-phonetic space.” Poster at Evolang 2020, Brussels.

February 2020

• Roberts, G. “Social meaning and counterintuitive language change: Evidence from artificial-language experiments.” Colloquium at the Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona

January 2020

• White, Y. and Roberts, G. “Optionality in the Welsh initial consonant mutation system.” Talk at LSA 2020, New Orleans.

October 2019

• White, Y. and Roberts, G. “Variability in the Welsh initial consonant mutation system.” Poster at NWAV 2019, Eugene, OR.
• Wade, L. and Roberts, G. “Accommodation to observed vs. expected behavior in a laboratory experiment.” Talk at NWAV 2019, Eugene, OR.
• Roberts, G. and Wade, L. “Accommodation to observed vs. expected behavior in an alien language.” Talk at Meaning in Flux 2019, New Haven.

September 2019

• Sneller, B. and Roberts, G. “Indexicality, sociolinguistic awareness, and language change.” Poster at UKLVC 2019, London.