Gareth Roberts

Gareth Roberts

University of Pennsylvania

H-index: 14

North America-United States

About Gareth Roberts

Gareth Roberts, With an exceptional h-index of 14 and a recent h-index of 12 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Pennsylvania, specializes in the field of Language evolution, language variation and change, cultural evolution, experimental semiotics, social interaction.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Social biases can lead to less communicatively efficient languages

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

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

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

Labels, Even Arbitrary Ones, Facilitate Categorization

Regularization of nouns due to drift, not selection: An artificial-language experiment

Gareth Roberts Information

University

Position

Assistant Professor

Citations(all)

583

Citations(since 2020)

352

Cited By

319

hIndex(all)

14

hIndex(since 2020)

12

i10Index(all)

18

i10Index(since 2020)

14

Email

University Profile Page

University of Pennsylvania

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Gareth Roberts Skills & Research Interests

Language evolution

language variation and change

cultural evolution

experimental semiotics

social interaction

Top articles of Gareth Roberts

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Social biases can lead to less communicatively efficient languages

Language Acquisition

Masha Fedzechkina

Lucy Hall Hartley

Gareth Roberts

2023/10/2

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

Frontiers in Psychology

Gareth Roberts

Robin Clark

2023/5/24

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

Cognitive Science

Aini Li

Gareth Roberts

2023/5

Variability in speaker expectations of morphosyntactic mutation in Welsh

Glossa: a journal of general linguistics

Yosiane White

Gareth Roberts

2022/1

Drift as a driver of language change: An artificial language experiment

Cognitive Science

Rafael Ventura

Joshua B Plotkin

Gareth Roberts

2022/9

What we talk about when we talk about colors

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Colin R Twomey

Gareth Roberts

David H Brainard

Joshua B Plotkin

2021/9/28

Labels, Even Arbitrary Ones, Facilitate Categorization

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Aja Marie Altenhof

Gareth Roberts

2021

Regularization of nouns due to drift, not selection: An artificial-language experiment

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Rafael Ventura

Joshua Plotkin

Gareth Roberts

2021

The emergence of indexicality in an artificial language

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Aini Li

Gareth Roberts

2021

Learners sacrifice robust communication as a result of a social bias

Masha Fedzechkina

Gareth Roberts

2020

Empirical foundations for an integrated study of language evolution

Language Dynamics and Change

Gareth Roberts

Betsy Sneller

2020/9/10

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

Journal of Language Evolution

Gareth Roberts

Robin Clark

2020/8

THE EMERGENCE OF PHONOLOGY-LIKE ORGANIZATION IN A QUASI-PHONETIC SPACE

LANGUAGE of

GARETH ROBERTS

ROBIN CLARK

2020/4/14

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

Cognitive science

Wei Lai

Péter Rácz

Gareth Roberts

2020/4

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

Cognitive Science

Lacey Wade

Gareth Roberts

2020/4

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Co-Authors

H-index: 65
simon garrod

simon garrod

University of Glasgow

H-index: 62
Joshua B. Plotkin

Joshua B. Plotkin

University of Pennsylvania

H-index: 62
David H. Brainard

David H. Brainard

University of Pennsylvania

H-index: 29
Christine A. Caldwell

Christine A. Caldwell

University of Stirling

H-index: 10
Colin R. Twomey

Colin R. Twomey

University of Pennsylvania

H-index: 8
Wei Lai

Wei Lai

University of Pennsylvania

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