ISLE Publications

ZORA Publication List

Publications

• 2020

  • Filippi, Piera (2020). Emotional voice intonation: A communication code at the origins of speech processing and word-meaning associations?. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 44(4):395-417.
  • Düring, Daniel N; Dittrich, Falk; Rocha, Mariana D; Tachibana, Ryosuke O; Mori, Chihiro; Okanoya, Kazuo; Boehringer, Roman; Ehret, Benjamin; Grewe, Benjamin F; Gerber, Stefan; Ma, Shouwen; Rauch, Melanie; Paterna, Jean-Charles; Kasper, Robert; Gahr, Manfred; Hahnloser, Richard H R (2020). Fast Retrograde Access to Projection Neuron Circuits Underlying Vocal Learning in Songbirds. Cell Reports, 33(6):108364.
  • You, Guanghao; Daum, Moritz M; Stoll, Sabine (2020). 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.
  • Cathcart, Chundra; Hölzl, Andreas; Jäger, Gerhard; Widmer, Paul; Bickel, Balthasar (2020). Numeral classifiers and number marking in Indo-Iranian: A phylogenetic approach. Language Dynamics and Change, 11(2):273-325.
  • Watson, Stuart K; Heesen, Raphaela; Hedwig, Daniela; Robbins, Martha M; Townsend, Simon W (2020). An exploration of Menzerath's law in wild mountain gorilla vocal sequences. Biology Letters, 16(10):20200380.
  • Collier, Katie; Radford, Andrew N; Stoll, Sabine; Watson, Stuart K; Manser, Marta B; Bickel, Balthasar; Townsend, Simon W (2020). 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.
  • Schubiger, Michèle N; Fichtel, Claudia; Burkart, Judith M (2020). Validity of Cognitive Tests for Non-human Animals: Pitfalls and Prospects. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:1835.
  • Tennie, Claudio; van Schaik, Carel P (2020). Spontaneous (minimal) ritual in non-human great apes?. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 375(1805):20190423.
  • Yamahachi, Homare; Zai, Anja T; Tachibana, Ryosuke O; Stepien, Anna E; Rodrigues, Diana I; Cavé-Lopez, Sophie; Lorenz, Corinna; Arneodo, Ezequiel M; Giret, Nicolas; Hahnloser, Richard H R (2020). Undirected singing rate as a non-invasive tool for welfare monitoring in isolated male zebra finches. PLoS ONE, 15(8):e0236333.
  • Gao, Yingqiang; Nikolov, Nikola I; Hu, Yuhuang; Hahnloser, Richard HR (2020). 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.
  • Fröhlich, Marlen; van Schaik, Carel P (2020). Must all signals be evolved? A proposal for a new classification of communicative acts. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 11(4):e1527.
  • Biagetti, Erica; Scarlata, Salvatore; Ackermann, Elia; Hellwig, Oliver; Widmer, Paul (2020). Annotation Guidelines for the Vedic Treebank, v. 2. s.n. s.n., University of Zurich.
  • Hellwig, Oliver; Scarlata, Salvatore; Ackermann, Elia; Widmer, Paul (2020). A Treebank of Vedic Sanskrit. In: Twelfth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Marseille, 11 May 2020 - 16 May 2020, Join GitHub.
  • Leroux, Maël; Townsend, Simon W (2020). Call combinations in great apes and the evolution of syntax. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 7(2):131-139.
  • Burkart, Judith M; van Schaik, Carel P (2020). Marmoset prosociality is intentional. Animal Cognition, 23(3):581-594.
  • Kollmorgen, Sepp; Hahnloser, Richard H R; Mante, Valerio (2020). Nearest neighbours reveal fast and slow components of motor learning. Nature, 577(7791):526-530.
  • Mansfield, John; Stoll, Sabine; Bickel, Balthasar (2020). Category clustering: A probabilistic bias in the morphology of verbal agreement marking. Language, 96(2):255-293.
  • Magno, Michele; Vultier, Fabien; Szebedy, Bence; Yamahachi, Homare; Hahnloser, Richard H R; Benini, Luca (2020). A Bluetooth-Low-Energy Sensor Node for Acoustic Monitoring of Small Birds. IEEE Sensors Journal, 20(1):425-433.
  • Stoll, Sabine (2020). 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.
  • Sengupta, Dhriti; Choudhury, Ananyo; Fortes-Lima, Cesar; Aron, Shaun; Whitelaw, Gavin; Bostoen, Koen; Gunnink, Hilde; Chousou-Polydouri, Natalia; Delius, Peter; Tollman, Stephen; Casas, F Gomez-Olive; Norris, Shane; Mashinya, Felistas; Alberts, Marianne; Hazelhurst, Scott; Schlebusch, Carina M; Ramsay, Michèle (2020). Genetic-substructure and complex demographic history of South African Bantu speakers. bioRxiv 243840, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
  • Townsend, Simon W; Watson, Stuart K; Slocombe, Katie E (2020). Flexibility in Great Ape Vocal Production. In: Hopper, Lydia M; Ross, Stephen R. Chimpanzees in Context. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 260-280.
  • Stoll, Sabine; Schikowski, Robert (2020). Child-language corpora. In: Paquot, Magali; Gries, Stefan. A Practical Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. Cham: Springer, 305-329.
  • Scarlata, Salvatore; Widmer, Paul (2020). 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.
  • van Schaik, Carel P (2020). Cultural anthropology’s love-hate relationship with evolution: what will the future bring?. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 144:77-92.
  • Moran, Steven; Bickel, Balthasar (2020). Rejoinder to Huijbregts’s: Biting into evolution of language. Journal of Language Evolution, 5(2):184-187.
  • Bickel, Balthasar (2020). Large and ancient linguistic areas. In: Crevels, Mily; Musyken, Pieter. Language dispersal, diversification, and contact : a global perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 78 - 101.
  • Strunk, Jan; Seifart, Frank; Danielsen, Swintha; Hartmann, Irene; Pakendorf, Brigitte; Wichmann, Søren; Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena; Bickel, Balthasar (2020). Determinants of phonetic word duration in ten language documentation corpora: Word frequency, complexity, position, and part of speech. Language Documentation & Conservation, 14:423-461.
  • Sonnenhauser, Barbara; Widmer, Paul (2020). Indeed, nothing lost in the Balkans: Assessing morphosyntactic convergence in an areal context. Balkanistica, 33:103-131.
  • Bickel, Balthasar; Nichols, Johanna (2020). Linguistic Typology and Hunter-Gatherer Languages. In: Güldemann, Tom; McConvell, Patrick; Rhodes, Richard. The Language of Hunter-Gatherers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 67-75.

• 2019

  • Mazara, Jekaterina; Stoll, Sabine (2019). How Do Children Become Flexible in Their Use of Grammatical Categories? The Aspect Hypothesis Revisited. In: 44th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, 7 November 2019 - 10 November 2019. Cascadilla Press, 363-375.
  • Lester, Nicholas; Bickel, Balthasar; Moran, Steven; Stoll, Sabine (2019). Speech Rates Differentiate Nouns and Verbs in Child-Surrounding and Child-Produced Speech: Evidence from Chintang. In: Proceedings of the 44th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, 7 November 2019 - 10 November 2019. Cascadilla Press, 280-293.
  • Ganglmayer, Kerstin; Attig, Manja; Daum, Moritz M; Paulus, Markus (2019). Infants’ perception of goal-directed actions: A multi-lab replication reveals that infants anticipate paths and not goals. Infant Behavior and Development, 57:101340.
  • Schuppli, Caroline; van Schaik, Carel (2019). Social learning among wild orang-utans. In: Dukes, Daniel; Clément, Fabrice. Foundations of Affective Social Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 25-40.
  • Fröhlich, Marlen; Sievers, Christine; Townsend, Simon W; Gruber, Thibaud; van Schaik, Carel P (2019). Multimodal communication and language origins: integrating gestures and vocalizations. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 94(5):1809-1829.
  • Mazara, Jekaterina; Stoll, Sabine (2019). Development of Verb Morphology: From Item-Specificity to Proficient Use. In: The 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, QC, 24 July 2019 - 27 July 2019. CogSci, 2325-2331.
  • Fröhlich, Marlen; Lee, Kevin; Mitra Setia, Tatang; Schuppli, Caroline; van Schaik, Carel P (2019). The loud scratch: a newly identified gesture of Sumatran orangutan mothers in the wild. Biology Letters, 15(7):20190209.
  • Edited by: Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena; Bickel, Balthasar (2019). Amsterdam: Benjamins. Argument Selectors.
  • Rocha, Mariana Diales; Düring, Daniel Normen; Bethge, Philipp; Voigt, Fabian F; Hildebrand, Staffan; Helmchen, Fritjof; Pfeifer, Alexander; Hahnloser, Richard H R; Gahr, Manfred (2019). Tissue Clearing and Light Sheet Microscopy: Imaging the Unsectioned Adult Zebra Finch Brain at Cellular Resolution. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 13:13.
  • van Schaik, Carel P; Pradhan, Gauri R; Tennie, Claudio (2019). Teaching and curiosity: sequential drivers of cumulative cultural evolution in the hominin lineage. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 73:2.
  • Kollmorgen, Sepp; Hahnloser, Richard; Mante, Valerio (2019). Neighborhood-statistics reveal complex dynamics of song acquisition in the zebra finch. bioRxiv 595512v1, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
  • Blasi, Damian; Cotterell, Ryan; Wolf-Sonkin, Lawrence; Stoll, Sabine; Bickel, Balthasar; Baroni, Marco (2019). On the Distribution of Deep Clausal Embeddings: A Large Cross-linguistic Study. In: Korhonen, Anna; Traum, David; Màrquez, Lluís. Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Florence: Association for Computational Linguistics, 3938-3943.
  • Sonnenhauser, Barbara; Widmer, Paul (2019). Prefixal articles across domains: Syntactic licensing in Albanian. Folia Linguistica:25-49.

• 2018

  • Geen, Sam; Watson, Stuart K; Rosdahl, Joakim; Bieri, Rebekka; Klessen, Ralf S; Hennebelle, Patrick (2018). On the indeterministic nature of star formation on the cloud scale. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 481(2):2548-2569.
  • Narula, Gagan; Herbst, Joshua A.; Rychen, Joerg; Hahnloser, Richard H R (2018). Learning auditory discriminations from observation is efficient but less robust than learning from experience. Nature Communications, 9:3218.
  • Scherschel, Ricarda; Widmer, Paul; Poppe, Erich (2018). Towards a multivariate classification of event noun constructions in Middle Welsh. Journal of Celtic Linguistics, 19:31-68.
  • Huang, Ziqiang; Khaled, Houda G; Kirschmann, Moritz; Gobes, Sharon M H; Hahnloser, Richard H R (2018). Excitatory and inhibitory synapse reorganization immediately after critical sensory experience in a vocal learner. eLife, 7:e37571.
  • Fröhlich, Marlen; van Schaik, Carel P (2018). The function of primate multimodal communication. Animal Cognition, 21(5):619-629.
  • Derungs, Curdin; Köhl, Martina; Weibel, Robert; Bickel, Balthasar (2018). Environmental factors drive language density more in food-producing than in hunter–gatherer populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 285(1885):20172851.
  • Townsend, Simon W; Engesser, Sabrina; Stoll, Sabine; Zuberbühler, Klaus; Bickel, Balthasar (2018). Compositionality in animals and humans. PLoS Biology, 16(8):e2006425.
  • Widmer, Paul (2018). Indogermanische Stammbäume. Datentypen und Methoden. In: Rieken, Elisabeth; Geupel, Ulrich; Roth, Theresa Maria. 100 Jahre Entzifferung des Hethitischen. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 373-388.
  • Seifart, Frank; Strunk, Jan; Danielsen, Swintha; Hartmann, Iren; Pakendorf, Brigitte; Wichmann, Søren; Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena; de Jong, Nivja H; Bickel, Balthasar (2018). Nouns slow down speech across structurally and culturally diverse languages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, (201800708):1-6.

• 2017

  • Watson, Stuart K; Townsend, Simon W; Range, Friederike (2017). Wolf howls encode both sender-and context-specific information. Animal Behaviour, 145:59-66.
  • Dedio, Stefan; Widmer, Paul (2017). S, A, and P argument demotion with preverbal imm-(a-n) in Old and Middle Irish. Études Celtiques, 43:187-206.
  • Widmer, Paul; Scarlata, Salvatore (2017). Good to go: RV suprayāṇá-. In: Sandgaard Hansen, Bjarne. Usque ad Radices: Indo-European Studies in Honour of Birgit Anette Olsen. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum, 801-814.

• 2015

  • Stoll, Sabine (2015). Crosslinguistic approaches to language acquisition. In: Bavin, Edith; Naigles, Letitia. The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 89-104.

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