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Dr Sean Roberts
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- Siarad Cymraeg
Timau a rolau for Sean Roberts
Uwch Ddarlithydd
Ysgol y Dyniaethau Byd-eang
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Ieithydd meintiol ydw i gyda chefndir amlddisgyblaethol mewn ieithyddiaeth, deallusrwydd artiffisial, esblygiad a gwybyddiaeth. Rwy'n defnyddio cyfuniad o ddilliau ystadegol, cymhariaethau draws-ddiwylliannol, arbrofion ac efelychiad cyfrifiadurol i astudio:
- Sut mae deialog yn gweithio mewn gemau fideo. Gweler ein Corpus Deialog Gêm Fideo.
- Sut mae iaith yn esblygu, gan gynnwys tarddiad iaith ac esblygiad diwylliannol parhaus iaith. Gweler ein Cronfa Ddata o Ddamcaniaethau am Esblygiad Iaith a'n cystadleuaeth stori fer Iaith yn Esblgu.
- Sut mae gramadeg yn effeithio ar y ffordd rydyn ni'n meddwl a'r penderfyniadau rydyn ni'n eu gwneud.
Cyhoeddiad
2026
- Roberts, S. and Krykoniuk, K. 2026. AI is making disinformation harder to spot – but we’ve found a new way to catch it. [Online].The Conversation: Conversation Trust. (10.64628/ab.e6vt7g45y)Available at: https://doi.org/10.64628/ab.e6vt7g45y.
- Krykoniuk, K. , Hopkin-King, C. and Roberts, S. G. 2026. Using LLMs to identify discourse derailment as a potential cue for disinformation in social media posts. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (10.1057/s41599-026-07900-x)
2025
- Pons-Sanz, S. and Roberts, S. 2025. The integration of Norse-derived terms in English: effects of formal similarity. Transactions of the Philological Society 123 (3), pp.556-591. (10.1111/1467-968x.70011)
- Robertson, C. et al., 2025. Low-certainty modals not future tenses cause increased psychological discounting in English relative to Dutch. Cognition 267 106338. (10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106338)
- Krykoniuk, K. , Hopkin-King, C. and Roberts, S. 2025. Developing a discourse space for analysing online discourse. Discourse, Context and Media 67 100929. (10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100929)
- Roberts, S. et al. 2025. The energy trilemma COP-out: accessibility is under-reported in international English-language media coverage of United Nations Climate Change Conferences. Energy Research & Social Science 127 104275. (10.1016/j.erss.2025.104275)
- Stainton, A. , Roberts, S. G. and Rennick, S. 2025. Hey, You! The importance of pragmatics in localizations of 'Mass Effect' in French and Spanish. Games and Culture 20 (6), pp.708-725. (10.1177/15554120231218046)
- Rennick, S. and Roberts, S. 2025. Not gamers, just women who play video games: A survey of women’s attitudes to mobile games in the UK. Sex Roles 91 60. (10.1007/s11199-025-01612-3)
- Rennick, S. and Roberts, S. 2025. Improving optionality in video game dialogue with Trope-Informed Design. Game Studies 25 (2)
- Krykoniuk, K. and Roberts, S. G. 2025. Causal graphs as a tool for exploring language evolution. In: Raviv, L. and Cedric, B. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press. , pp.441-454. (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192886491.013.22)
- Robertson, C. et al., 2025. Language and economic behaviour: Future tense use causes less not more temporal discounting. PLoS ONE 20 (5) e0317422. (10.1371/journal.pone.0317422)
- Roberts, S. et al. 2025. Get data early, get data often, iterate constantly: An explorative, participatory approach to studying language evolution. Journal of Language Evolution 10 (1) lzaf006. (10.1093/jole/lzaf006)
- Roberts, S. G. , Krykoniuk, K. and Jordan, F. M. 2025. The arena of language evolution: the emergence of symbolic referential signals in a common task framework. Journal of Language Evolution 10 (1) lzaf001. (10.1093/jole/lzaf001)
- Krykoniuk, K. et al. 2025. Reference to patients in nurse shift handover meetings: Exploring the dynamics of referring expressions. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 32 (1), pp.54-81. (10.1080/09296174.2024.2416641)
2024
- Dhakal, D. N. , List, J. and Roberts, S. G. 2024. A phylogenetic study of South-Western Tibetic. Journal of Language Evolution 9 (1-2), pp.14-28. lzae008. (10.1093/jole/lzae008)
- Rennick, S. and Roberts, S. 2024. The video game dialogue corpus. Corpora 19 (1), pp.93-106. (10.3366/cor.2024.0299)
- Hartmann, F. et al., 2024. Investigating environmental effects on phonology using diachronic models. Evolutionary Human Sciences 6 e8. (10.1017/ehs.2023.33)
2023
- Knowlton, T. and Roberts, S. G. 2023. Explaining mythical composite monsters in a global cross-cultural sample. Journal of Cognition and Culture 24 (1-2), pp.51-74. (10.1163/15685373-12340176)
- Medupe, D. et al., 2023. Why did foraging, horticulture and pastoralism persist after the Neolithic transition? The oasis theory of agricultural intensification. Royal Society Open Science 378 (1883)(10.1098/rstb.2022.0300)
- Passmore, S. et al., 2023. Kinbank: A global database of kinship terminology. PLoS ONE 18 (5) e0283218.. (10.1371/journal.pone.0283218)
- Rennick, S. et al., 2023. Gender bias in video game dialogue. Royal Society Open Science 10 221095. (10.1098/rsos.221095)
- Robertson, C. and Roberts, S. G. 2023. Not when but whether: Modality and future time reference in English and Dutch. Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal 47 (1) e13224. (10.1111/cogs.13224)
2022
- Byun, K. et al., 2022. Distinguishing selection pressures in an evolving communication system: evidence from colour-naming in ‘cross signing’. Frontiers in Communication 7 1024340. (10.3389/fcomm.2022.1024340)
2021
- Gotti, G. et al., 2021. Language in economics and accounting research: the role of linguistic history. The International Journal of Accounting 56 (3) 2150015. (10.1142/S1094406021500153)
- Rennick, S. and Roberts, S. 2021. Improving video game conversations with trope-informed design. Game Studies 21 (3)
- Berl, R. et al., 2021. Prestige and content biases together shape the cultural transmission of narratives. Evolutionary Human Sciences 3 e42. (10.1017/ehs.2021.37)
- Monaghan, P. and Roberts, S. G. 2021. Iconicity and diachronic language change. Cognitive Science 45 (4) e12968. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12968)
2020
- Thomson, B. , Roberts, S. G. and Lupyan, G. 2020. Cultural influences on word meanings revealed through large-scale semantic alignment. Nature Human Behaviour 4 , pp.1029-1038. (10.1038/s41562-020-0924-8)
- Roberts, S. G. et al. 2020. CHIELD: The causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database. Journal of Language Evolution 5 (2), pp.101-120. (10.1093/jole/lzaa001)
- Cuskley, C. et al., 2020. Double-blind reviewing and gender biases at EvoLang conferences. Journal of Language Evolution 5 (1), pp.92-99. (10.1093/jole/lzz007)
- Rojas-Berscia, L. M. and Roberts, S. 2020. Exploring the history of pronouns in South America with computer-assisted methods. Journal of Language Evolution 5 (1), pp.54-74. (10.1093/jole/lzz006)
- Macuch Silva, V. et al., 2020. Multimodality and the origin of a novel communication system in face-to-face interaction. Royal Society Open Science 7 (1) 182056. (10.1098/rsos.182056)
2018
- Majid, A. et al., 2018. Differential coding of perception in the world’s languages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (45), pp.11369-11376. (10.1073/pnas.1720419115)
- Roberts, S. G. 2018. Robust, causal, and incremental approaches to investigating linguistic adaptation. Frontiers in Psychology 9 166. (10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00166)
2017
- Roberts, S. G. and Levinson, S. C. 2017. Conversation, cognition and cultural evolution: a model of the cultural evolution of word order through pressures imposed from turn taking in conversation. Interaction Studies 18 (3), pp.402-442. (10.1075/is.18.3.06rob)
2015
- Dingemanse, M. et al., 2015. Universal principles in the repair of communication problems.. PLoS ONE 10 (9) e0136100. (10.1371/journal.pone.0136100)
- Roberts, S. G. , Winters, J. and Chen, K. 2015. Future tense and economic decisions: Controlling for cultural evolution.. PLoS ONE 10 (7) e0132145. (10.1371/journal.pone.0132145)
Adrannau llyfrau
- Krykoniuk, K. and Roberts, S. G. 2025. Causal graphs as a tool for exploring language evolution. In: Raviv, L. and Cedric, B. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press. , pp.441-454. (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192886491.013.22)
Erthyglau
- Krykoniuk, K. , Hopkin-King, C. and Roberts, S. G. 2026. Using LLMs to identify discourse derailment as a potential cue for disinformation in social media posts. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (10.1057/s41599-026-07900-x)
- Pons-Sanz, S. and Roberts, S. 2025. The integration of Norse-derived terms in English: effects of formal similarity. Transactions of the Philological Society 123 (3), pp.556-591. (10.1111/1467-968x.70011)
- Robertson, C. et al., 2025. Low-certainty modals not future tenses cause increased psychological discounting in English relative to Dutch. Cognition 267 106338. (10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106338)
- Krykoniuk, K. , Hopkin-King, C. and Roberts, S. 2025. Developing a discourse space for analysing online discourse. Discourse, Context and Media 67 100929. (10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100929)
- Roberts, S. et al. 2025. The energy trilemma COP-out: accessibility is under-reported in international English-language media coverage of United Nations Climate Change Conferences. Energy Research & Social Science 127 104275. (10.1016/j.erss.2025.104275)
- Stainton, A. , Roberts, S. G. and Rennick, S. 2025. Hey, You! The importance of pragmatics in localizations of 'Mass Effect' in French and Spanish. Games and Culture 20 (6), pp.708-725. (10.1177/15554120231218046)
- Rennick, S. and Roberts, S. 2025. Not gamers, just women who play video games: A survey of women’s attitudes to mobile games in the UK. Sex Roles 91 60. (10.1007/s11199-025-01612-3)
- Rennick, S. and Roberts, S. 2025. Improving optionality in video game dialogue with Trope-Informed Design. Game Studies 25 (2)
- Robertson, C. et al., 2025. Language and economic behaviour: Future tense use causes less not more temporal discounting. PLoS ONE 20 (5) e0317422. (10.1371/journal.pone.0317422)
- Roberts, S. et al. 2025. Get data early, get data often, iterate constantly: An explorative, participatory approach to studying language evolution. Journal of Language Evolution 10 (1) lzaf006. (10.1093/jole/lzaf006)
- Roberts, S. G. , Krykoniuk, K. and Jordan, F. M. 2025. The arena of language evolution: the emergence of symbolic referential signals in a common task framework. Journal of Language Evolution 10 (1) lzaf001. (10.1093/jole/lzaf001)
- Krykoniuk, K. et al. 2025. Reference to patients in nurse shift handover meetings: Exploring the dynamics of referring expressions. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 32 (1), pp.54-81. (10.1080/09296174.2024.2416641)
- Dhakal, D. N. , List, J. and Roberts, S. G. 2024. A phylogenetic study of South-Western Tibetic. Journal of Language Evolution 9 (1-2), pp.14-28. lzae008. (10.1093/jole/lzae008)
- Rennick, S. and Roberts, S. 2024. The video game dialogue corpus. Corpora 19 (1), pp.93-106. (10.3366/cor.2024.0299)
- Hartmann, F. et al., 2024. Investigating environmental effects on phonology using diachronic models. Evolutionary Human Sciences 6 e8. (10.1017/ehs.2023.33)
- Knowlton, T. and Roberts, S. G. 2023. Explaining mythical composite monsters in a global cross-cultural sample. Journal of Cognition and Culture 24 (1-2), pp.51-74. (10.1163/15685373-12340176)
- Medupe, D. et al., 2023. Why did foraging, horticulture and pastoralism persist after the Neolithic transition? The oasis theory of agricultural intensification. Royal Society Open Science 378 (1883)(10.1098/rstb.2022.0300)
- Passmore, S. et al., 2023. Kinbank: A global database of kinship terminology. PLoS ONE 18 (5) e0283218.. (10.1371/journal.pone.0283218)
- Rennick, S. et al., 2023. Gender bias in video game dialogue. Royal Society Open Science 10 221095. (10.1098/rsos.221095)
- Robertson, C. and Roberts, S. G. 2023. Not when but whether: Modality and future time reference in English and Dutch. Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal 47 (1) e13224. (10.1111/cogs.13224)
- Byun, K. et al., 2022. Distinguishing selection pressures in an evolving communication system: evidence from colour-naming in ‘cross signing’. Frontiers in Communication 7 1024340. (10.3389/fcomm.2022.1024340)
- Gotti, G. et al., 2021. Language in economics and accounting research: the role of linguistic history. The International Journal of Accounting 56 (3) 2150015. (10.1142/S1094406021500153)
- Rennick, S. and Roberts, S. 2021. Improving video game conversations with trope-informed design. Game Studies 21 (3)
- Berl, R. et al., 2021. Prestige and content biases together shape the cultural transmission of narratives. Evolutionary Human Sciences 3 e42. (10.1017/ehs.2021.37)
- Monaghan, P. and Roberts, S. G. 2021. Iconicity and diachronic language change. Cognitive Science 45 (4) e12968. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12968)
- Thomson, B. , Roberts, S. G. and Lupyan, G. 2020. Cultural influences on word meanings revealed through large-scale semantic alignment. Nature Human Behaviour 4 , pp.1029-1038. (10.1038/s41562-020-0924-8)
- Roberts, S. G. et al. 2020. CHIELD: The causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database. Journal of Language Evolution 5 (2), pp.101-120. (10.1093/jole/lzaa001)
- Cuskley, C. et al., 2020. Double-blind reviewing and gender biases at EvoLang conferences. Journal of Language Evolution 5 (1), pp.92-99. (10.1093/jole/lzz007)
- Rojas-Berscia, L. M. and Roberts, S. 2020. Exploring the history of pronouns in South America with computer-assisted methods. Journal of Language Evolution 5 (1), pp.54-74. (10.1093/jole/lzz006)
- Macuch Silva, V. et al., 2020. Multimodality and the origin of a novel communication system in face-to-face interaction. Royal Society Open Science 7 (1) 182056. (10.1098/rsos.182056)
- Majid, A. et al., 2018. Differential coding of perception in the world’s languages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (45), pp.11369-11376. (10.1073/pnas.1720419115)
- Roberts, S. G. 2018. Robust, causal, and incremental approaches to investigating linguistic adaptation. Frontiers in Psychology 9 166. (10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00166)
- Roberts, S. G. and Levinson, S. C. 2017. Conversation, cognition and cultural evolution: a model of the cultural evolution of word order through pressures imposed from turn taking in conversation. Interaction Studies 18 (3), pp.402-442. (10.1075/is.18.3.06rob)
- Dingemanse, M. et al., 2015. Universal principles in the repair of communication problems.. PLoS ONE 10 (9) e0136100. (10.1371/journal.pone.0136100)
- Roberts, S. G. , Winters, J. and Chen, K. 2015. Future tense and economic decisions: Controlling for cultural evolution.. PLoS ONE 10 (7) e0132145. (10.1371/journal.pone.0132145)
Gwefannau
- Roberts, S. and Krykoniuk, K. 2026. AI is making disinformation harder to spot – but we’ve found a new way to catch it. [Online].The Conversation: Conversation Trust. (10.64628/ab.e6vt7g45y)Available at: https://doi.org/10.64628/ab.e6vt7g45y.
Ymchwil
Sgyrsiau mewn Gemau Fideo, gyda Stephanie Rennick (Prifysgol Stirling). Rydyn ni'n defnyddio fy ymchwil ar strwythur sgwrs ryngweithiol i wella systemau deialog gemau fideo. Rydym wedi creu'r corpws mwyaf o ddeialog gemau fideo ac wedi cynnal gweithdai a digwyddiadau amrywiol gyda datblygwyr gemau fideo. Ewch i'n gwefan.
Casgliad Achosol. Rwy'n gweithio ar dechnegau ystadegol newydd i ddarganfod cysylltiadau achosol mewn cronfeydd data arsylwadol traws-ddiwylliannol. Mae hyn yn cynnwys adeiladu'r Damcaniaethau Achosol mewn Ieithyddiaeth Esblygiadol. Ewch i ymweld â CHIELD.
Cyfeirnod Amser yn y Dyfodol (gyda Cole Robertson, Dermot Lynott, Prifysgol Lancaster a Texture AI). Rydym yn datblygu gwasanaeth sy'n cydnabod newidiadau amser real mewn cymryd risg o'r cyfryngau cymdeithasol cyhoeddus, yn seiliedig ar fy ymchwil ar sut y gall dewisiadau gramadegol ddatgelu agweddau seicolegol at gymryd risg.
Iaith yn esblygu (gyda Hannah Little, Catriona Silvey, Kateryna Krykoniuk, a Fiona Jordan). Fe wnaethon ni greu gwasanaeth sy'n helpu awduron yn y diwydiant ffuglen wyddonol i ymchwilio a datblygu straeon yn seiliedig ar ymchwil esblygiad iaith. Mae hyn yn cynnwys cwrs ar-lein, gweithdy rhyngweithiol, a sesiynau un i un. Denodd cystadleuaeth stori fer gysylltiedig 70 o gyflwyniadau ac mae'n cael ei beirniadu gan Mary Doria Russell (enillydd Gwobr Arthur C. Clarke) a Gwyneth Lewis (cyn-fardd cenedlaethol Cymru). Mae ein cystadleuaeth 2023 bellach ar agor. Ewch i'n gwefan.
Addysgu
Rwyf wedi dysgu ar amrywiaeth o gyrsiau sy'n ymdrin â phynciau megis seicoieithyddiaeth, lingusitics corpws a semanteg.
Bywgraffiad
I did a PhD in linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, then held post-doc research positions at the Max-Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics and the University of Bristol (Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship).
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Adeilad John Percival , Ystafell 3.65(a), Rhodfa Colum, Caerdydd, CF10 3EU
