Caroline Lyon
List of John Benjamins publications in which Caroline Lyon is involved.
2014 Review of Tallerman & Gibson (2012): The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution Interaction Studies 15:1, pp. 129–142 | Review
2012 The Cradle of Language and The Prehistory of Language. Edited by Rudolf Botha & Chris Knight Language as Social Coordination: An evolutionary perspective, Raczaszek-Leonardi, Joanna and Stephen J. Cowley (eds.), pp. 139–145 | Article
2011 The acquisition of word semantics by a humanoid robot via interaction with a human tutor New Frontiers in Human–Robot Interaction, Dautenhahn, Kerstin and Joe Saunders (eds.), pp. 211–234 | Article
This chapter describes a HRI case study which demonstrates how a humanoid robot can use simple heuristics to acquire and use vocabulary in the context of being shown a series of shapes presented to it by a human and how the interaction style of the human changes as the robot learns and expresses… read more
2001 The segmentation of speech and its implications for the emergence of language structure Evolution of Communication 4:2, pp. 161–182 | Article
This paper reports a phenomenon supporting the hypothesis that the emergence of structure in the evolution of language was a staged process. To develop a grammatical structure it seems necessary to first have discrete constituents which can be the building blocks of a hierarchical system. By… read more