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2021
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Reassessing Rigvedic Strata. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 141(4):847-865.
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A system for controlling vocal communication networks. Scientific Reports, 11(1):11099.
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Cultural macroevolution of musical instruments in South America. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 8:208.
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Multicomponent and multisensory communicative acts in orang-utans may serve different functions. Communications Biology, 4(1):917.
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Morphological structure can escape reduction effects from mass admixture of second language speakers. Studies in Language, 45(4):707-752.
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Understanding corpus linguistics. New York: Routledge.
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Word Order Variation is Partially Constrained by Syntactic Complexity. Cognitive Science, 45(11):e13056.
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Introduction. Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, 7(2):179-183.
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Influence of causal language on causal understanding: A comparison between Swiss German and Turkish. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 210:105182.
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Evaluating syntactic annotation of ancient languages. Old World: Journal of Ancient Africa and Eurasia, 1(1):1-32.
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Chimpanzees combine pant hoots with food calls into larger structures. Animal Behaviour, 179:41-50.
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Indo-Aryan – a house divided? Evidence for the east–west Indo-Aryan divide and its significance for the study of northern South Asia. Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, 7(2):287-326.
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Child-directed speech is optimized for syntax-free semantic inference. Scientific Reports, 11(1):16527.
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Contact-tracing in cultural evolution: a Bayesian mixture model to detect geographic areas of language contact. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 18(181):20201031.
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Exploring correlations in genetic and cultural variation across language families in northeast Asia. Science Advances, 7(34):eabd9223.
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Beyond universals and particulars in language. Theoretical Linguistics, 47(1-2):47-52.
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Appositive possession in Ainu and around the Pacific. Linguistic Typology:1-46.
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Comparison and Gradation in Indo- European: Introduction and Overview. In: Keydana, Götz; Hock, Wolfgang; Widmer, Paul. Comparison and Gradation in Indo-European. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1-34.
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Intentional communication: solving methodological issues to assigning first‐order intentional signalling. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 96(3):903-921.
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Songbirds are excellent auditory discriminators, irrespective of age and experience. Animal Behaviour, 175:123-135.
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Why do chimpanzees have diverse behavioral repertoires yet lack more complex cultures? Invention and social information use in a cumulative task. Evolution and Human Behavior, 42(3):247-258.
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Efficiency in discourse processing: Does morphosyntax adapt to accommodate new referents?. Linguistics Vanguard, 7(s3):1-13.
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Stem alternations in Kiranti and their implications for the morphology-phonology interface. Journal of Linguistics, 57(2):321-363.
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Neural competition between concurrent speech production and other speech perception. NeuroImage, 228:117710.
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Marmoset monkeys overcome dyadic social dilemmas while avoiding mutual defection. Animal Behaviour, 173:93-104.
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Do marmosets understand others’ conversations? A thermography approach. Science Advances, 7(6):eabc8790.
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Neural signatures of syntactic variation in speech planning. PLoS Biology, 19(1):e3001038.
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Can Bayesian phylogeography reconstruct migrations and expansions in linguistic evolution?. Royal Society Open Science, 8(1):201079.
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Testing the two sides of indirect reciprocity in tufted capuchin monkeys. Behavioural Processes, 182:104290.
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Speaking for seeing: Sentence structure guides visual event apprehension. Cognition, 206:104516.
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Effect of group size and experience on the ontogeny of sentinel calling behaviour in meerkats. Animal Behaviour, 171:129-138.
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The History of Developmental Psychology. PsyArXiv Preprints s2ckp, The Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science.
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Collective knowledge and the dynamics of culture in chimpanzees. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 377:20200321.
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Speech segmentation: New dogs, old tricks?. Current Biology, 31(24):R1580-R1582.
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Frequency vs. Salience in First Language Acquisition: The Acquisition of Aspect Marking in Chintang. In: Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, online, July 2021. California Digital Library, 840-846.
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Convergence by shared ancestry in Romance. Journal of Language Contact, 14:53-71.
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The extent and degree of utterance-final word lengthening in spontaneous speech from 10 languages. Linguistics Vanguard, 7(1):1-14.
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Higher social tolerance in wild versus captive common marmosets: the role of interdependence. Scientific Reports, 11:825.
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Active sharing of a novel, arbitrary innovation in captive cotton-top tamarins?. Behaviour, 158(1):51-67.
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2020
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Emotional voice intonation: A communication code at the origins of speech processing and word-meaning associations?. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 44(4):395-417.
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Fast Retrograde Access to Projection Neuron Circuits Underlying Vocal Learning in Songbirds. Cell Reports, 33(6):108364.
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Processing causatives in first language acquisition: A computational approach. In: Conference on Language Development / Proceedings of the 45th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University, November 2020. Cascadilla Press, 818-828.
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Numeral classifiers and number marking in Indo-Iranian: A phylogenetic approach. Language Dynamics and Change, 11(2):273-325.
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An exploration of Menzerath's law in wild mountain gorilla vocal sequences. Biology Letters, 16(10):20200380.
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Dwarf mongoose alarm calls: investigating a complex non-human animal call. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 287(1935):20192514.
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Validity of Cognitive Tests for Non-human Animals: Pitfalls and Prospects. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:1835.
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Spontaneous (minimal) ritual in non-human great apes?. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 375(1805):20190423.
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Undirected singing rate as a non-invasive tool for welfare monitoring in isolated male zebra finches. PLoS ONE, 15(8):e0236333.
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Character-Level Translation with Self-attention. In: Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Online, 1 July 2020, Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Must all signals be evolved? A proposal for a new classification of communicative acts. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 11(4):e1527.
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Annotation Guidelines for the Vedic Treebank, v. 2. s.n. s.n., University of Zurich.
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A Treebank of Vedic Sanskrit. In: Twelfth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Marseille, 11 May 2020 - 16 May 2020, Join GitHub.
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Call combinations in great apes and the evolution of syntax. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 7(2):131-139.
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Marmoset prosociality is intentional. Animal Cognition, 23(3):581-594.
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Nearest neighbours reveal fast and slow components of motor learning. Nature, 577(7791):526-530.
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Category clustering: A probabilistic bias in the morphology of verbal agreement marking. Language, 96(2):255-293.
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A Bluetooth-Low-Energy Sensor Node for Acoustic Monitoring of Small Birds. IEEE Sensors Journal, 20(1):425-433.
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Sampling linguistic diversity to understand language development. In: Rowland, Caroline; Twomey, Katherine E; Ambridge, Ben; Theakston, Anna. Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing, 247-263.
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Genetic-substructure and complex demographic history of South African Bantu speakers. bioRxiv 243840, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
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Flexibility in Great Ape Vocal Production. In: Hopper, Lydia M; Ross, Stephen R. Chimpanzees in Context. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 260-280.
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Child-language corpora. In: Paquot, Magali; Gries, Stefan. A Practical Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. Cham: Springer, 305-329.
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Rigvedische Komposita in der rekursiven Satzverknüpfung. In: Fritz, Matthias; Kitazumi, Tomoki; Veksina, Marina. Maiores philologiae pontes : Festschrift für Michael Meier-Brügger zum 70. Geburtstag. New York: Beech Stave Press, 224-235.
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Cultural anthropology’s love-hate relationship with evolution: what will the future bring?. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 144:77-92.
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Rejoinder to Huijbregts’s: Biting into evolution of language. Journal of Language Evolution, 5(2):184-187.
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Large and ancient linguistic areas. In: Crevels, Mily; Musyken, Pieter. Language dispersal, diversification, and contact : a global perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 78 - 101.
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Determinants of phonetic word duration in ten language documentation corpora: Word frequency, complexity, position, and part of speech. Language Documentation & Conservation, 14:423-461.
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Indeed, nothing lost in the Balkans: Assessing morphosyntactic convergence in an areal context. Balkanistica, 33:103-131.
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Linguistic Typology and Hunter-Gatherer Languages. In: Güldemann, Tom; McConvell, Patrick; Rhodes, Richard. The Language of Hunter-Gatherers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 67-75.
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