Thomas Brochhagen

Assistant Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Joined

August 2020

Names

Thomas Brochhagen (Preferred)

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@upf.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Homepage

Google Scholar

DBLP

Career & Education History

Assistant Professor

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (upf.edu)

2022 – Present

Postdoc

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (upf.edu)

2018 – 2022

PhD student

University of Amsterdam (uva.nl)

2014 – 2018

Undergrad student

Heinrich Heine University (hhu.de)

2008 – 2013

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisor

Gemma Boleda

Present

PhD Advisor

Robert van Rooij

Present

Expertise

pragmatics

Present

semantics

Present

ambiguity

Present

language evolution

Present

language emergence

Present

multilevel models

Present

statistical modelling

Present

cognitive modelling

Present

Publications

From language development to language evolution: A unified view of human lexical creativity
Thomas Brochhagen, Gemma Boleda, Eleonora Gualdoni, Yang Xu
- 15 Dec 2023
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
When do languages use the same word for different meanings? The Goldilocks Principle in colexification
Thomas Brochhagen, Gemma Boleda
- 06 Oct 2022
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Which one is the dax? Achieving mutual exclusivity with neural networks
Kristina Gulordava, Thomas Brochhagen, Gemma Boleda
- 2020 (modified: 06 Nov 2022)
- CoRR 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Coevolution of Lexical Meaning and Pragmatic Use
Thomas Brochhagen, Michael Franke, Robert van Rooij
- 2018 (modified: 13 May 2025)
- Cogn. Sci. 2018
- Readers: Everyone
Effects of transmission perturbation in the cultural evolution of language
Thomas Brochhagen, Michael Franke
- 2017 (modified: 13 May 2025)
- CogSci 2017
- Readers: Everyone
Learning biases may prevent lexicalization of pragmatic inferences: a case study combining iterated (Bayesian) learning and functional selection
Thomas Brochhagen, Michael Franke, Robert van Rooij
- 2016 (modified: 13 May 2025)
- CogSci 2016
- Readers: Everyone
Minimal Requirements for Productive Compositional Signaling
Thomas Brochhagen
- 2015 (modified: 06 Nov 2022)
- CogSci 2015
- Readers: Everyone

Thomas Brochhagen

Names

Emails

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Expertise

Publications

From language development to language evolution: A unified view of human lexical creativity

When do languages use the same word for different meanings? The Goldilocks Principle in colexification

Which one is the dax? Achieving mutual exclusivity with neural networks

Coevolution of Lexical Meaning and Pragmatic Use

Effects of transmission perturbation in the cultural evolution of language

Learning biases may prevent lexicalization of pragmatic inferences: a case study combining iterated (Bayesian) learning and functional selection

Minimal Requirements for Productive Compositional Signaling

Co-Authors