All Publications (2020ff)
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2026
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Languages evolve ergodically: Clarifications and responses Physics of Life Reviews, 57, 160–163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2026.03.006
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Autonomy of Morphology: Paradigmatic Structure in Diachrony In E. Aldridge, A. Breitbarth, K. É. Kiss, J. Salmons, & A. Simonenko (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Diachronic and Historical Linguistics (pp. 275–292). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119898023.wbcdl090
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Word classes In L. Bauer & Salvador Valera (Eds.), Conversion in Morphology: Theory and Typology (pp. 38–49). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198943990.003.0003
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Modulating altered sensory prediction using bilateral auditory cortex high-definition transcranial random noise stimulation and acoustic masking Clinical Neurophysiology, 182, 2111388. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2025.2111388
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Drivers of word order variation in Sanskrit nominal expressions Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies, 31, 71–88. https://doi.org/10.11588/EJVS.2026.1.28724
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Emergence and evolution of free variation in Central Pame prefixes Diachronica, 43, 74–104. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.24033.her
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The Agent Preference in Ontogeny: Predictability of Agent and Patient Roles in Child‐Directed Utterances Across Languages Cognitive Science, 50, e70147. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70147
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Oblique but not Opaque: The Function of Oblique Subjects in Early Indo-European (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-433615
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2025
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The emergence of grammatical structure from inter-predictability In C. O’Shannessy, J. Gray, & D. Angelo (Eds.), Projecting Voices: Studies in Language and Linguistics in Honour of Jane Simpson (pp. 557–590). ANU Press. https://doi.org/10.22459/PV.2025
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Diversity in monolingual and multilingual communicative environments and its relation to vocabulary in early childhood Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1366728925100758
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Language‐Invariant Strategies of Navigating Transitions in Joint Activities: Forms and Functions of Coordination Markers Cognitive Science, 49(11), e70133. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70133
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Association of Tinnitus With Speech Recognition and Executive Functions in Older Adults Trends in Hearing, 29, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1177/23312165251389585
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The Relation Between Goal‐Predictive Gaze Behavior and Imitation—A Live Eye‐Tracking Study in 12‐Month‐Olds Infancy, 30, e70050. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.70050
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Generalised power series determined by linear recurrence relations Journal of Algebra, 681, 152–189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2025.05.012
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The perception of prosocial agents by chimpanzees and humans Royal Society Open Science, 12, 250916. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250916
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The Paradigm Cell Filling Problem (Oxford Biographies in Linguistics). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199772810-0327
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Morphomes (Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199772810-0328
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The impact of balance of multilingual exposure on gesture comprehension in children above preschool age Applied Psycholinguistics, 46, e32. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0142716425100192
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The effect of animacy on the agent preference: Self-paced reading evidence from Basque Memory & Cognition, 53, 2056–2075. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-025-01698-w
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The road to negation: A comparative study of five typologically and culturally diverse languages First Language, 45, 596–621. https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237251336806
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Linguistic Diversification and Rates of Change: Insights From a Diverse Sample of Sociolinguistic Studies Language and Linguistics Compass, 19, e70022. https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.70022
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Quantifying the faithfulness of poetry translations in four closely related Slavic languages Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 1261–1274. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaf102
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Telling Compounds and Phrases Apart in Vietnamese. A Random Forest Classification Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 23, 23–48. https://doi.org/10.6519/TJL.202509_23(3).0002
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Databases for Comparative Syntactic Research In S. Barbiers, N. Corver, & M. Polinsky (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Syntax (pp. 75–107). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009179362
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Input to the Language Learning Infant: The Impact of Other Children Developmental Science, 28, e70045. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.70045
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Patterns of genetic admixture reveal similar rates of borrowing across diverse scenarios of language contact Science Advances, 11, eadv7521. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adv7521
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Syntactic evidence for metrical structure in Rigvedic stanzas Indo-European Linguistics, 13, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1163/22125892-bja10041
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Chimpanzee mothers, but not fathers, influence offspring vocal–visual communicative behavior PLoS Biology, 23, e3003270. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003270
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Can you spot the funny face? An EEG study on slapstick humour processing in children Brain & Cognition, 188, 106334. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2025.106334
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On the impact of exposure to different languages on Theory of Mind in neurotypical and autistic children Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Epub ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1017/s136672892510031x
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Discourse ergativity and human reference in Basque Studies in Language, 49 (3), online. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.23005.egu
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Early Expressive and Receptive Language Development in Preterm vs Full-Term Children: A Meta-Analysis Pediatrics, 156, e2024070477. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2024-070477
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Advances in population genetics and language history: How large data sets and ancient DNA changed the picture In M. Robbeets & M. Hudson (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology and Language (pp. 193–209). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192868350.013.36
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The evolution of infant-directed communication: Comparing vocal input across all great apes Science Advances, 11, eadt7718. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adt7718
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Influences on Data Quality in Developmental Children Studies Infant and Child Development, 34, e70035. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.70035
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How strong is the rhythm of perception? A registered replication of Hickok et al. (2015) Royal Society Open Science, 12, 220497. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220497
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The Areal Typology of Languages of the Americas (ATLAs) database Scientific Data, 12, 933. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05169-4
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Neural correlates of processing case in adults and children Brain and Language, 265, 105548. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105548
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VeLeSpa: An inflected verbal lexicon of Peninsular Spanish and a quantitative analysis of paradigmatic predictability Language Resources and Evaluation, 59, 1705–1718. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-024-09776-2
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Stephen C. Levinson: A Grammar of Yélî Dnye: The Papuan language of Rossel Island Linguistic Typology, 29, 221–229. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2024-0075
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Children Learn Causatives Despite Pervasive Ellipsis: Evidence from Turkish Journal of Child Language, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000925000200
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The diachrony of verbal classification: Classifier mergers and semantic incoherence in Southern and Western Daly Diachronica, 42:2, 161–197. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.24036.man
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Central Pame verbal inflection: Morphological classification across layers Studies in Language, 49, 412–455. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.24032.her
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Children Find Others’ Misfortune Funnier Than Adults Social Development, 34, e12805. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12805
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On feature representations for marmoset vocal communication analysis Bioacoustics, 34, 355–369. https://doi.org/10.1080/09524622.2025.2487688
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Predictive coding and dimension-selective attention enhance the lateralization of spoken language processing Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 172, 106111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106111
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Stimulus type and social context are stronger than individual differences in common marmosets’ novelty exploration. Animal Behaviour, 223, 123183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123183
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Children Learn Best From Their Peers: The Crucial Role of Input From Other Children in Language Development Open Mind, 9, 665–676. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00198
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Spontaneous Encoding of Event Roles in Hominids Open Mind, 9, 559–575. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00202
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Corrigenda ad Rig-Veda. Das heilige Wissen. Bd. 2: fünfter Liederkreis https://archive.org/details/corrigendaRV5
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Extensive compositionality in the vocal system of bonobos Science, 388, 104–108. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adv1170
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Paradigmatic complexity metrics as signals of phylogenetic relatedness Diachronica, 42, 1–46. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.23004.her
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Asymmetric Sampling in Time: Evidence and perspectives Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 171, 106082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106082
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A Simple Explanation for Harmonic Word Order Cognitive Science, 49, e70056. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70056
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Ordered transexponential fields Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, 176, 103541. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apal.2024.103541
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A corpus approach to orthographic chunking: near-naive word separation in Swiss German text messages Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2024-0049
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VeLeRo: an inflected verbal lexicon of standard Romanian and a quantitative analysis of morphological predictability Language Resources and Evaluation, 59, 621–637. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-024-09721-3
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Bringing psycholinguistics to the field: experiences from Solomon Islands Language Documentation & Conservation, 19, 99–119. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/74816
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Negation in first language acquisition: Universal or language-specific? Cognitive Science, 49, e70044. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70044
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Curating global datasets of structural linguistic features for independence Scientific Data, 12, 106. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-04319-4
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Between Worlds – Cultural history of lexical contacts in ancient Iran (1000 BC–900 CE) (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-276411
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Outstanding problems in Persian historical phonology: toward a quantitative solution In A. Korangy & B. Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari (Eds.), The Handbook of Persian Dialects and Dialectology (pp. 149–175). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8151-9_5
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Syntactic Hierarchy in Linguistic Evolution: A Phylogenetic View of Clause-Linkage (Dissertation, University of Zurich)
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Discontinuous Linearization of Vedic Nominal Expressions In R. Leach, O. Hellwig, & T. Zehnder (Eds.), Studies in the Atharvaveda : Proceedings of the 3rd Zurich International Conference on Indian Literature and Philosophy (No. 15; pp. 57–72). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111244433-003
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Bridging Linguistic and Population Histories: Structural Linguistic Diversity in the Light of Contact and Isolation (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-275852
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Studies in the Atharvaveda: Proceedings of the 3rd Zurich International Conference on Indian Literature and Philosophy (Vol. 15). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111244433
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Metrical, morphosyntactic, and syntactic analysis of the Rigveda (Version 1.0) [Data set] https://doi.org/10.48656/yc4z-sa04
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Quotations from the Paippalāda-Saṁhitā in Patañjali’s Mahābhāṣya In R. Leach, O. Hellwig, & T. Zehnder (Eds.), Studies in the Atharvaveda : Proceedings of the 3rd Zurich International Conference on Indian Literature and Philosophy (No. 15; pp. 331–348). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111244433-014
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Linguistic evolution in time and space: Addressing the methodological challenges In L. Raviv & C. Boeckx (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution (pp. 391–421). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192886491.013.20
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Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Semantic Role Acquisition and Processing Using Machine Learning Methods (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279197
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The Impact of Child-Directed and Child-Surrounding Input on Language Ontogeny and Phylogeny (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-277438
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From Linguistics to Animal Communication: Assessing the Structural Dynamics of a Non-Human Primate Call System (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-277549
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2024
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The meaning of morphomes: distributional semantics of Spanish stem alternations Linguistics Vanguard, 10, 115–128. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2023-0010
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Some remarks on Apsarases, dogs and gandharvas In R. Leach, O. Hellwig, & T. Zehnder (Eds.), Studies in the Atharvaveda : Proceedings of the 3rd Zurich International Conference on Indian Literature and Philosophy (No. 15; pp. 193–229). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111244433-009
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VeLeCa: A verbal lexicon of Catalan with PCFP analysis Isogloss, 10, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.457
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Concurrent processing of the prosodic hierarchy is supported by cortical entrainment and phase-amplitude coupling Cerebral Cortex, 34, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae479
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Inter-call intervals, but not call durations, adhere to Menzerath’s Law in the submissive vocal bouts of meerkats Royal Society Open Science, 11, 241351. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241351
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The Effects of Syntactic Dependencies and Speech Tempo on Macro-Rhythm Proceedings of the Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 157–161. https://assta.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/No_32_Torres_Morand_et_al_2024_157_161.pdf
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Humans and great apes visually track event roles in similar ways PLoS Biology, 22, e3002857. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002857
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Singular-plural verb stem alternation: uncovering global and local drivers of typological variation Linguistic Typology, 29, 81–125. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2023-0040
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To Compound or not to Compound? A Diachronic Bayesian Analysis of Compounds and Equivalent Constructions in Vedic Sanskrit Indogermanische Forschungen. Zeitschrift Für Indogermanistik Und Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, 129, 319–358. https://doi.org/10.1515/if-2024-0013
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Beyond bigrams: call sequencing in the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) vocal system Royal Society Open Science, 11, 218–240. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240218
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Managing expectations: Referential expectedness and uncertainty in a syntactically flexible language Studies in Language, online. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.23031.ma
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Vocal-visual combinations in wild chimpanzees Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 78, 108. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-024-03523-x
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Areal and phylogenetic dimensions of word order variation in Indo-European languages Linguistics, 62, 1085–1116. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2022-0146
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Adults Adapt to Child Speech in Causative Semantics Cognitive Science, 48, e13495. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13495
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Densify: An R package to reduce empty cells in dataframes of typological linguistic data Journal of Open Source Software, 9, 7024. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07024
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Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution Physics of Life Reviews, 50, 211–225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2024.08.003
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Measuring acoustic dissimilarity of hierarchical markers in task-oriented dialogue with MFCC-based dynamic time warping Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 4763–4767. https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2024-2204
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Morphology In M. C. Frank & A. Majid (Eds.), Open Encyclopaedia of Cognitive Science (p. online). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.7772416b
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Stylised sustained prosody in three Australian languages Speech Prosody, 980–984. https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2024-198
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Exploring the evolutionary dynamics of sound symbolism Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 1076–1083. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3tc941m4
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A universal preference for animate agents in hominids IScience, 27, 109996. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.109996
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VeLePa: Central Pame verbal inflection in a quantitative perspective Morphology, 34, 281–319. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-024-09426-x
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Syntax-like structures in maternal contact calls of Chestnut-crowned Babblers (Pomatostomus ruficeps) International Journal of Primatology, 45, 543–562. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-022-00332-9
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Acquisition of gender agreement depends on frequency distributions in specific contexts Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2496–2502. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/16b5s7hq
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Deep history of cultural and linguistic evolution among Central African hunter-gatherers Nature Human Behaviour, online. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01891-y
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Atharvaveda Paippalada Zurich Edition Book 4 (Version 1.0.0) [Data set] https://doi.org/10.48656/2s4s-tp54
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Finding proportionality in computational approaches to morphological change Proceedings of the International Conference on the Evolution of Language, 83. https://doi.org/10.17617/2.3587960
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