in Refereed Journals / Conferences / Collections
Fay, N, TM Ellison, K Tylén, R Fusaroli, B Walker, & S Garrod. (2018). Applying the cultural ratchet to a social artefact: The cumulative cultural evolution of a language game. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39(3), 300–309.
Ellison, TM & L Miceli. (2017). Language monitoring in bilinguals as a mechanism for rapid lexical divergence. Language, 93(2), 255–287.
Bebbington, K, C MacLeod, TM Ellison & N Fay. (2017). The sky is falling: evidence of a negativity bias in the social transmission of information. Evolution and Human Behavior, 38(1), 92–101.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.07.004
Kashima, E, D Williams, TM Ellison, D Schokkin & P Escudero. (2016). Uncovering the acoustic vowel space of a previously undescribed language: The vowels of Nambo. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 139(6), EL252–EL256. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4954395
Lister, CJ, N Fay, TM Ellison & J Ohan. (2015). Creating New Communication System: Gesture has the Upper Hand. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Fay, N, TM Ellison & S Garrod. (2014). Iconicity: From Sign To System In Human Communication and Language. Pragmatics & Cognition, 22(2), 244-263.
Tamariz, M, TM Ellison, DJ Barr & N Fay. (2014). Cultural selection drives the evolution of human communication systems. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1788).
doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.0488
Harrison, DP, WGK Stritzke, N Fay, TM Ellison & A Hudaib. (2014). Probing the Implicit Suicidal Mind: Does the Death/Suicide Implicit Association Test Reveal a Desire to Die or a Diminished Desire to Live? Psychological Assessment, 26(3), 831-840.
Fay, N, CJ Lister, TM Ellison & S Goldin-Meadow. (2014). Creating a Communication System from Scratch: Gesture Beats Vocalization Hands Down. Frontiers In Psychology, 5.
doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00354
Fay, N & TM Ellison. 2013. The Cultural Evolution of Human Communication Systems in Different Sized Populations: Usability Trumps Learnability. PLoS ONE 8.e71781.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0071781.
Ellison, TM. 2013. Categorisation as Topographic Mapping between Uncorrelated Spaces. In David Dowe (ed.) Algorithmic Probability and Friends. Bayesian Prediction and Artificial Intelligence, pages 131–141. Springer-Verlag.
Ellison, TM. 2007. Bayesian identification of cognates and correspondences. In Computing and Historical Phonology: Proceedings of the Ninth Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Morphology and Phonology, pages 15-22.
Ellison, TM & S Kirby. 2006. Measuring language divergence by intra-lexical comparison. In ACL, pages 273-280.
Ellison, TM & E Klein. 2001. The best of all possible words. Journal of Linguistics, 37:127-143. (Review article of D. Archangeli & D. T. Langendoen (eds), Optimality Theory: an overview, 1997.)
Ellison, TM. 2001. Induction and inherent similarity. In Ulrike Hahn and Martin C. Ramscar, editors, Similarity and Categorization. Oxford University Press, Oxford. (Expanded and revised version of 1997 SimCat paper.)
Shillcock, R, TM Ellison & P Monaghan. 2000. Eye-fixation behaviour, lexical storage and visual word recognition in a split processing model. Psychological Review, 107:824-851.
Ellison, TM. 2000. The universal constraint set: Convention not fact. In Joost Dekkers, Frank van der Leeuw, and Jeroen van de Weijer, (eds), Optimality Theory: Phonology, Syntax, and Acquisition, pages 524-553. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Shillcock, R, P Monaghan & TM Ellison. 1999. The split model of visual word recognition: Complementary connectionist and statistical cognitive modelling. In D. Heinke, G.W.
Humphreys, and A. Olson, editors, Connectionist models in cognitive neuroscience: the 5th neural computation and psychology workshop, pages 3-12, London:Springer-Verlag.
Shillcock, R, TM Ellison & P Monaghan. 1999. The optimal behaviour of a split model of word recognition resembles observed fixation behaviour. In 21st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 653-8, Vancouver:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Ellison, TM. 1997. Induction and inherent similarity. In Ulrike Hahn and Michael Ramscar, editors, Proceedings of Simcat '97, Edinburgh.
Ellison, TM. 1997. Simplicity, psychological plausibility and connectionism in language acquisition. In Proceedings of the 1997 GALA conference on Language Acquisition: Knowledge Representation and Processing, pages 333-7, Edinburgh.
Ellison, TM. 1995. OT, finite-state representations and procedurality. In Proceedings of the Conference on Formal Grammar, Barcelona.
Ellison, TM & M. do Céu Viana. 1996. Antagonismo e elisão de vogais átonas finais em português europeu. In XI Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguistica, Vol III, pages 261-282.
Bird, S & TM Ellison. 1994. One level phonology: autosegmental representations and rules as finite automata. Computational Linguistics, 20:55-90.
Ellison, TM. 1994. Phonological derivation in optimality theory. In Coling '94, pages 1007-1013, Kyoto.
Ellison, TM. 1994. Constraints, exceptions and representations. In Proceedings of the First Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Phonology, pages 25-32.
Harrison, SP & TM Ellison. 1992. Restriction and termination in parsing with feature-theoretic grammars. Computational Linguistics, 18:519-530.
Bird, S & TM Ellison. 1992. A phonologist's workbench. In A. Crochetière, J.-C. Boulanger, and C. Ouellon, editors, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of Linguists.
Ellison, TM. 1992. Discovering vowel harmony. In Walter Daelemans and David M.W. Powers, editors, Background and Experiments in Machine Learning of Natural Language, pages 205-207. Institute for Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg University.
Ellison, TM. 1991. Discovering planar segregations. In David M.W. Powers and Larry Reeker, editors, Working Notes, AAAI Spring Symposium on The Machine Learning of Natural Language and Ontology, pages 42-47.
Ellison, TM. 1988. Klimb: a language for manipulating weak searches. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Australian Computer Science Conference, Brisbane.
Edited Volumes
Nerbonne, J, TM Ellison, & G Kondrak (eds). 2007. Computing and Historical Phonology: Proceedings of the Ninth Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Morphology and Phonology, Prague.
Ellison, TM (ed.). 1997. Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL'97), Madrid.
Ellison, TM & JM Scobbie (eds). 1993. Computational Phonology, Edinburgh Working Papers in Cognitive Science, Volume 8.
Unpublished Conference Presentations & Posters 2014-
Ellison, TM & U Reinöhl, Metaphor Drives Compositional Structure in Proto-Language, ProtoLang, 2019-09, Lisbon (accepted).
Reinöhl, U & TM Ellison, Syntactic obligatorification stems from universal communicative requirements, ICHL, 2019-07.
Reinöhl, U & TM Ellison, Obligatorification stems from universal communicative requirements not syntactic reanalysis, Whither Reanalysis? (workshop), 2019-03-02, Berlin.
Ellison, TM, Prosodic prominence and language forward-modelling, at Prominence between Cognitive Functions and Linguistic Structures (COFLIS), workshop at PaPE 2019-06, Lecce (invited).
Ellison,TM, L Miceli, A Turninetti, P Escudero & N Schiller, The Price of Ease, ALS, 2018-12-12, Adelaide.
Ellison, TM, Modelling Sentence Interpretation, SFP 1252 Klausurtagung, 2018-10-12, Gummersbach (invited).
Reinöhl, U & TM Ellison, From metaphorical usage to configurational grammar, International Congress of Linguists, 2018-07-05, Capetown.
Ellison, TM, A Morphological Glosser for Multiple Exponence, International Congress of Linguists, 2018-07-03, Capetown.
Ellison, TM & E Kashima, From Cognition to Language Change: close Simulation of a PNG Village, Evolang, 2018 04-19, Toruń.
Ellison, TM & U Reinöhl, Metaphorical Extension and the Evolution of Configurationality, Evolang, 2018-04-17, Toruń.
Evans, N, TM Ellison & E Kashima, Decategorialising prominence marker in Nen and Nmbo, NWAV-AP5, 2018-02-01, Brisbane.
Ellison, TM, Getting Communication Started, IJCAI, 2017-08-10, Melbourne (invited).
Ellison, TM & L Miceli, The Impacts of Bilingual Production Monitoring on Non-Dominant Language Lexica, ICHL, 2017-07-04, San Antonio.
Ellison, TM, Experimental Semiotics, Representational Biases and the Atoms of Language Change, ICHL, 2017-06-31, San Antonio.
Ellison, TM, Finding Segmental Boundaries: can Information Geometry and Self-Similarity Help?, TAP workshop, 2017-02-10, Brisbane.
Ellison, TM, How far does language change during the lifetime?, CoEDLfest, 2017-02-08, Sunshine Coast.
Cialone, C, M Ellison, N Evans, D Barth, M Garde & E Kidd, Navigation Talk in Bininj Kunwok, CoEDLfest, 2017-02-06, Sunshine Coast.
Macklin-Cordes, JL, NL Blackbourne, TJ Bott, J Cook, TM Ellison, J Hollis, EE Kirlew, GC Richards, S Zhao, ER Round, Robots who read grammars, CoEDLfest, 2017-02-06, Sunshine Coast.
Ellison, TM. and Matthew Carroll, Measuring exponence complexity: a Minimum Description Length approach, ALS, 2016-12-09, Melbourne.
Round, E, J Cook, TM Ellison, J Hollis, J Macklin-Cordes & Genevieve Richards, The Grammar Harvester, ALS, 2016-12-09, Melbourne.
Ellison, TM, L Miceli, V Evans & Simon Greenhill, Can we identify bilingual-led lexical differentiation in Oceanic?, ALS, 2016-12-08, Melbourne.
Evans, N, TM Ellison, D Schokkin, D Williams & E Kashima, Do Shared Norms Cross Language Boundaries? A Case Study from Multilingual Southern New Guinea, NWAV-AP, 2016-04-23, Chai-yi.
Kashima, E, D Williams, TM Ellison, D Schokkin & P Escudero, Uncovering the vowel space of a previously undescribed language: the vowels of Nambo, CoEDLfest, 2016-02-09, Sydney.
Ellison, TM & L Miceli, Does Grosjean’s Language Mode require Variable Language Activation?, ALS, 2015-12-11, Sydney.
Ellison, TM, S Bird, P Escudero & K Mulak, The Offline Experiment App, CoEDL Kin App Workshop, 2015-08-17, Brisbane.
Ellison, TM & L Miceli, Language Discontinua: how Bilingual-Led Differentiation Disrupts Cladistic Modeling, ICHL, 2015-07-01, Naples.
Ellison, TM, Harnessing Online Games for Gathering Linguistic Data, CoEDL Scale-Up Workshop, 2015-02-09, Canberra.
Ellison, TM & N Evans, Scale Up: micro to macro, CoEDLfest, 2015-02-01, Canberra.
Ellison, TM, A Cognitive Model of Bilingual-Lead Differentiation and Convergence, Comparative Australian Languages Workshop, 2015-01-23, Canberra.
Ellison, TM & N. Fay, Human communication systems evolve via cumulative cultural adaptation: an empirical demonstration, ALS, 2014-12-12, Newcastle NSW.
Ellison, TM & N. Fay, Morphological complexity responds to multilingualism not age-ofacquisition, ALS, 2014-12-10, Newcastle NSW.
Ellison, TM, Identifying Typological Features Likely to Show Synchronic Variation, ALS, 2014- 12-10, Newcastle NSW.
Ellison, TM, Egocentrism as a key component of cultural evolution, PTNCE, 2014-10-24, Wrocław.
Ellison, TM & N Fay, Systematicity is triggered by on semantic proximity not density, EHBEA, 2014-04-09, Bristol.
Fay, N, CJ Lister, TM Ellison & S Goldin-Meadow, Creating a communication system from scratch: Gesture beats vocalization hands down, EHBEA, 2014-04-09, Bristol.
Ellison, TM, N Fay, M Tamariz & D Barr, Representations are selected: They don’t just drift, Evolang, 2014-04-15, Vienna.
Fay, N, TM Ellison, R Fusaroli & K Tylen, The cumulative cultural evolution of an instruction language drift, Evolang, 2014-04-15, Vienna.
Lister, CJ, N Fay, TM Ellison & S Goldin-Meadow, Getting communication started: The superiority of gesture over non-linguistic vocalization, Evolang, 2014-04-15, Vienna.
Walker, B, N Fay & TM Ellison, Frequency-dependent bias affects the spread of human communication systems, Evolang, 2014-04-15, Vienna.
Wilson, M, TM Ellison & N Fay, Semantic crowding triggers systematically structured sign systems, Evolang, 2014-04-15, Vienna.
Departmental and Research Group Seminars 2014-
Ellison, TM, Intra- and Inter-Speaker Variation in Predictive Models of Language Cognition, at Wellsprings of Linguistic Diversity finale, Canberra 2019-06-28.
Ellison, TM, Probabilistic Programming, the Distribution Monad and GADTs, Canberra Functional Programming Group (CanFP), 2019-04.
Ellison, TM, Historical Linguistics in the Age of Bayes, Seminar presentation, ANU, Evolution 2018- 09-21
Ellison, TM, Phylogenetics: Why and How, Seminar presentation, Universität zu Köln, 2018-04-27
Ellison, TM, The Anti-Doppel Bias in Cognition, Behaviour and Language Change, Seminar presentation, Universität zu Köln, 2018-04-23
Reinöhl, U & TM Ellison, Obligatorification in Syntax, Seminar presentation, Universität zu Köln, 2018-04-12
Reinöhl, U & TM Ellison, Obligatorification in Syntax, Seminar presentation, ANU, Linguistics 2018-03-16
Ellison, TM, Historical Linguistics in the Age of Bayes, Seminar presentation, ANU, Linguistics, 2018-03-09
Ellison TM & S Kalyan, Compiling to Categories: Mathematically-principled program transformation, CanFP, 2017-11-15.
Kalyan, S & TM Ellison, Category Theory and Haskell: Parallel Universes, CanFP, 2017-04-19.
Ellison, TM, From Speakers' Cognitive Biases to Macrolinguistic Diversity, Seminar presentation, Sydney University Linguistics, 2017-03-31
Ellison, TM, Modelling Language Behaviour to Understand Language Change, Seminar presentation, WSU Linguistics, 2015-05-27
Ellison, TM, Useability trumps learnability in communication systems, Seminar presentation, ANU Culture History & Language, 24/07/2014