Publications
2024
2023
Stereotypes, Gender and Humour in Representations of coders in Silicon Valley. Review of TV series Silicon Valley (HBO 2014-2019)
Little, H. (2023). Stereotypes, gender, and humor in representations of coders in <i>Silicon Valley</i>. Review of TV series <i>Silicon Valley</i> (HBO 2014-2019). In SCIENCE AS CULTURE (Vol. 32, Iss. 2, pp. 315-321). doi:10.1080/09505431.2023.2189094
Principles of good research communication
Little, H. (2023). Principles of good research communication. In Communicating Linguistics (pp. 17-27). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003096078-4
2022
The science communication of ‘Don't Look Up ’
Little, H. (2022). The science communication of <i>Don't Look Up</i>. In JCOM-JOURNAL OF SCIENCE COMMUNICATION (Vol. 21, Iss. 5). doi:10.22323/2.21050301
The use of satire to communicate science in ‘Don't look up’
Little, H. (2022). The use of satire to communicate science in ‘Don't look up’. Journal of Science Communication, 21(05), C06. doi:10.22323/2.21050306
The Christmas Lectures: extending the experience outside the lecture theatre
Little, H., Fogg-Rogers, L., & Sardo, A. M. (2022). The Christmas Lectures: extending the experience outside the lecture theatre. JCOM-JOURNAL OF SCIENCE COMMUNICATION, 21(2). doi:10.22323/2.21020201
2021
Transforming tradition: how the iconic Christmas Lectures series is perceived by its audiences
Sardo, A. M., Little, H., & Fogg-Rogers, L. (2021). Transforming tradition: how the iconic Christmas Lectures series is perceived by its audiences. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENCE EDUCATION PART B-COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT, 11(4), 378-393. doi:10.1080/21548455.2021.2012298
“We had to be very clear that they weren't going to try to break into any of the cases”: what potential do ‘escape rooms’ offer as a science communication technique?
Wilkinson, C., & Little, H. (2021). "We had to be very clear that they weren't going to try to break into any of the cases": what potential do 'escape rooms' offer as a science communication technique?. JCOM-JOURNAL OF SCIENCE COMMUNICATION, 20(1). doi:10.22323/2.20010307
Robots in Smart Cities
Studley, M. E., & Little, H. (2021). Robots in Smart Cities. In Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering (pp. 75-88). Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-56926-6_7
2020
CHIELD: the causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database
Roberts, S. G., Killin, A., Deb, A., Sheard, C., Greenhill, S. J., Sinnemaki, K., . . . Jordan, F. (2020). CHIELD: the causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database. JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE EVOLUTION, 5(2), 101-120. doi:10.1093/jole/lzaa001
The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EvoLang13)
Ravignani, A., Barbieri, C., Flaherty, M., Jadoul, Y., Lattenkamp, E., Little, H., . . . Verhoef, T. (Eds.) (2020). The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EvoLang13) (13 ed.). Nijmegen, Netherlands: The Evolution of Language Conferences. doi:10.17617/2.3190925
2019
Communicating science: lessons from a Twitterstorm
Little, H. (2019). Communicating science: lessons from a Twitterstorm. In JCOM-JOURNAL OF SCIENCE COMMUNICATION (Vol. 18, Iss. 4). doi:10.22323/2.18040101
The iconicity toolbox: empirical approaches to measuring iconicity
Motamedi, Y., Little, H., Nielsen, A., & Sulik, J. (2019). The iconicity toolbox: empirical approaches to measuring iconicity. LANGUAGE AND COGNITION, 11(2), 188-207. doi:10.1017/langcog.2019.14
2018
Iconicity in Signed and Spoken Vocabulary: A Comparison Between American Sign Language, British Sign Language, English, and Spanish
Perlman, M., Little, H., Thompson, B., & Thompson, R. L. (2018). Iconicity in Signed and Spoken Vocabulary: A Comparison Between American Sign Language, British Sign Language, English, and Spanish. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 9. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01433
The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference (EVOLANGXII)
Cuskley, C., Flaherty, M., McCrohon, L., Little, H., Ravignani, A., & Verhoef, T. (Eds.) (2018). The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference (EVOLANGXII) (12 ed.). Toruń, Poland: Nicolaus Copernicus University.
2017
Conventionalisation and discrimination as competing pressures on continuous speech-like signals
Little, H., Eryilmaz, K., & de Boer, B. (2017). Conventionalisation and discrimination as competing pressures on continuous speech-like signals. INTERACTION STUDIES, 18(3), 352-375. doi:10.1075/is.18.3.04lit
Empirical approaches for investigating the origins of structure in speech
Little, H., Rasilo, H., van der Ham, S., & Eryilmaz, K. (2017). Empirical approaches for investigating the origins of structure in speech. INTERACTION STUDIES, 18(3), 330-351. doi:10.1075/is.18.3.03lit
Signal dimensionality and the emergence of combinatorial structure
Little, H., Eryilmaz, K., & de Boer, B. (2017). Signal dimensionality and the emergence of combinatorial structure. COGNITION, 168, 1-15. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2017.06.011
Using leap motion to investigate the emergence of structure in speech and language
Eryilmaz, K., & Little, H. (2017). Using leap motion to investigate the emergence of structure in speech and language. BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS, 49(5), 1748-1768. doi:10.3758/s13428-016-0818-x
Introduction to the special issue on the emergence of sound systems
Little, H. (2017). Introduction to the special issue on the emergence of sound systems. JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE EVOLUTION, 2(1), 1-3. doi:10.1093/jole/lzx014
Repeated Interactions Can Lead to More Iconic Signals
Little, H., Perlman, M., & Eryılmaz, K. (2017). Repeated Interactions Can Lead to More Iconic Signals. In CogSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition (pp. 760-765).
2015
Linguistic Modality Affects the Creation of Structure and Iconicity in Signals
Little, H., Eryılmaz, K., & de Boer, B. (2015). Linguistic Modality Affects the Creation of Structure and Iconicity in Signals. In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015 (pp. 1392-1397).