Publications

Journal articles:

• Blokpoel, M., Dingemanse, M., Woensdregt, M., Kachergis, G., Bögels, S., Toni, I., & van Rooij, I. (in revision). Pragmatic communicators can overcome asymmetry by exploiting ambiguity. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/q56xs
• Heesen, R., Fröhlich, M., Sievers, C., Woensdregt, M., & Dingemanse, M. (2022). Coordinating social action: A primer for the cross-species investigation of communicative repair. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. https://is.gd/philtrans_repair
• Woensdregt, M., Cummins, C. & Smith, K. (2020). A computational model of the cultural co-evolution of language and mindreading. Synthese. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02798-7

Chapters in edited volumes:

• Woensdregt, M. & Micklos, A. (forthcoming). Cognitive and Interactive Mechanisms for Mutual Understanding in Conversation. In Nussbaum, J. (Ed), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. https://psyarxiv.com/aqtfb
• Woensdregt, M., & Smith, K. (2017). Pragmatics and Language Evolution. In Aronoff, M. (Ed), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. https://psyarxiv.com/5sqfj/

Papers in conference proceedings:

• Dingemanse, M., Liesenfeld, A., & Woensdregt, M., (forthcoming). Convergent cultural evolution of continuers (mmhm). Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE) 2022. [pdf available on request]
• Woensdregt, M., Jara-Ettinger, J., & Rubio-Fernandez, P., (2022). Language universals rely on social cognition: Computational models of the use of this and that to redirect the receiver’s attention. In Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/91x62554
• Woensdregt, M., Spike, M., de Haan, R., Wareham, T., van Rooij, I., & Blokpoel, M. (2021). Why is scaling up models of language evolution hard? In Proceedings of the 43th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/021734q4
• van Arkel, J., Woensdregt, M., Dingemanse, M., & Blokpoel, M. (2020). A simple repair mechanism can alleviate computational demands of pragmatic reasoning: Simulations and complexity analysis. In Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning. pp. 177–194. https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.14
• Woensdregt, M., Kirby, S., Cummins, C., & Smith, K. (2016). Modelling the co-development of word learning and perspective-taking. In Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. https://cogsci.mindmodeling.org/2016/papers/0222/paper0222.pdf