Preprints

Stoll, S., C. P. van Schaik, J. M Burkart, K. Ono, N. Phaniraj, Z. Song, & B. Bickel, 2025. From vocal homophily to vocal repertoire flexibility: Unravelling the socioecological drivers of language evolution. EcoEvoRxiv

Cerrito, P. , C. P. van Schaik, C. Boeckx, J. M. Burkart, A.-L. Giraud, D. Bavelier, & B. Bickel, 2025. Pleistocene origins of cultural and linguistic diversification: how Homo sapiens and Neanderthals differed. EcoEvoRxiv 

Graff, A., E. J. Ringen, T. Zakharko, M. Stoneking, K. K. Shimizu, B. Bickel*, & C. Barbieri*, 2024. An inverse correlation between linguistic and genetic diversity. BioRxiv

Graff, A., D. E. Blasi, E. J. Ringen, V. Bajić, D. Bavelier, K. K. Shimizu, B. Pakendorf, C. Barbieri*, & B. Bickel*, 2024. Global patterns of genetic admixture reveal effects of language contact. BioRxiv.

Ivani, J. & B. Bickel. 2023. Databases for comparative syntactic research. To appear in The Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Syntax, ed. Barbiers, S., N. Corver & M. PolinskyArXiv

Ivani, J. & B. Bickel. 2024. Clause combining in Tibeto-Burman. To appera in: The Oxford Guide to Tibeto-Burman Languages, ed. Hildebrandt K. et ak. LingBuzz

Piette, T., C. Cathcart, K. M. Ming, D. Grandjean, B. Bickel, E. Deaux, & A.L. Giraud 2024. Animal acoustic communication maintains a universal optimum rhythm. BioRxiv.

Saldaña, C., C. Cathcart, J. Ivani, B. Bickel, & M. Maldonado, 2025. Cross-linguistic regularities in pronominal number neutralisation are not driven by learning biases: Limits of the Typological Prevalence Hypothesis for morphosyntactic categories. OSF

Meloni, C., C. Cathcart, J. Ivani, T. Zakharko, E. Ringen & B. Bickel, 2025. Linguistic evolution minimizes the amount of syntactic hierarchy in grammar. bioRxiv

Meloni, C., J. Ivani, T. Zakharko, G. You, C. Cathcart & B. Bickel, 2025. Writing does not Impact the Evolution of Syntax. bioRxiv

Meloni, C. C. Cathcart, E. Ringen, J. Ivani & B. Bickel, 2025 A Phylogenetic Perspective on the Syntax-Semantics Interface: A Case Study in Clause Linkage Constructions. bioRxiv