All Publications (2020ff)
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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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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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The perception of prosocial agents by chimpanzees and humans Royal Society Open Science, 12(11), 250916. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250916
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Generalised power series determined by linear recurrence relations Journal of Algebra, 681:152-189.
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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(23.3), 23–48. https://doi.org/10.6519/TJL.202509_23(3).0002
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Input to the Language Learning Infant: The Impact of Other Children Developmental Science, 28(5):e70045.
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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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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(8), e3003270. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003270
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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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Emergence and evolution of free variation in Central Pame prefixes Diachronica:Epub ahead of print.
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Early Expressive and Receptive Language Development in Preterm vs Full-Term Children: A Meta-Analysis Pediatrics, 156(2):e2024070477.
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Advances in population genetics and language history: How large data sets and ancient DNA changed the picture In: Robbeets, Martine; Hudson, Mark . The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology and Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 193-209.
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The evolution of infant-directed communication: Comparing vocal input across all great apes Science Advances, 11(26), eadt7718. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adt7718
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The road to negation: A comparative study of five typologically and culturally diverse languages First Language:Epub ahead of print.
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How strong is the rhythm of perception? A registered replication of Hickok et al. (2015) Royal Society Open Science, 12(6):220497.
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The Areal Typology of Languages of the Americas (ATLAs) database Scientific Data, 12(1):933.
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Neural correlates of processing case in adults and children Brain and Language, 265:105548.
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VeLeSpa: An inflected verbal lexicon of Peninsular Spanish and a quantitative analysis of paradigmatic predictability Language Resources and Evaluation, 59(2):1705-1718.
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Stephen C. Levinson: A Grammar of Yélî Dnye: The Papuan language of Rossel Island Linguistic Typology, 29(1):221-229.
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Children Learn Causatives Despite Pervasive Ellipsis: Evidence from Turkish Journal of Child Language:1-22.
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Central Pame verbal inflection: Morphological classification across layers Studies in Language, 49(2):412-455.
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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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On feature representations for marmoset vocal communication analysis Bioacoustics, 34(3):355-369.
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Predictive coding and dimension-selective attention enhance the lateralization of spoken language processing Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 172:106111.
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Stimulus type and social context are stronger than individual differences in common marmosets' novelty exploration Animal Behaviour, 223:123183.
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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.
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Corrigenda ad Rig-Veda. Das heilige Wissen. Bd. 2: fünfter Liederkreis archive.org: Internet Archive.
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Extensive compositionality in the vocal system of bonobos Science, 388(6742):104-108.
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Paradigmatic complexity metrics as signals of phylogenetic relatedness Diachronica, 42(1):1-46.
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A Simple Explanation for Harmonic Word Order Cognitive Science, 49(4):e70056.
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Asymmetric Sampling in Time: Evidence and perspectives Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 171:106082.
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Ordered transexponential fields Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, 176(4):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.
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VeLeRo: an inflected verbal lexicon of standard Romanian and a quantitative analysis of morphological predictability Language Resources and Evaluation, 59(1):621-637.
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Bringing psycholinguistics to the field: experiences from Solomon Islands Language Documentation & Conservation, 19:99-119.
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Curating global datasets of structural linguistic features for independence Scientific Data, 12(1):106.
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Bridging Linguistic and Population Histories: Structural Linguistic Diversity in the Light of Contact and Isolation 2025, University of Zurich, Philosophische Fakultät.
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The Impact of Child-Directed and Child-Surrounding Input on Language Ontogeny and Phylogeny 2025, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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Studies in the Atharvaveda: Proceedings of the 3rd Zurich International Conference on Indian Literature and Philosophy Edited by: Leach, Robert; Hellwig, Oliver; Zehnder, Thomas (2025). Boston, Berlin: De Gruyter.
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Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Semantic Role Acquisition and Processing Using Machine Learning Methods 2025, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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Outstanding problems in Persian historical phonology: toward a quantitative solution In: Korangy, Alireza; Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari, Behrooz . The Handbook of Persian Dialects and Dialectology. Singapore: Springer, 149-175.
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Linguistic evolution in time and space: Addressing the methodological challenges In: Raviv, Limor; Boeckx, Cedric . The Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 391-421.
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Between Worlds – Cultural history of lexical contacts in ancient Iran (1000 BC–900 CE) 2025, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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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: Leach, Robert; Hellwig, Oliver; Zehnder, Thomas . Studies in the Atharvaveda : Proceedings of the 3rd Zurich International Conference on Indian Literature and Philosophy. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 57-72.
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The effect of animacy on the agent preference: Self-paced reading evidence from Basque Memory & Cognition:online.
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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: Leach, Robert; Hellwig, Oliver; Zehnder, Thomas . Studies in the Atharvaveda : Proceedings of the 3rd Zurich International Conference on Indian Literature and Philosophy. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 331-348.
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From Linguistics to Animal Communication: Assessing the Structural Dynamics of a Non-Human Primate Call System 2025, University of Zurich, Philosophische Fakultät.
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2024
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The meaning of morphomes: distributional semantics of Spanish stem alternations Linguistics Vanguard, 10(1):115-128.
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Some remarks on Apsarases, dogs and gandharvas In: Leach, Robert; Hellwig, Oliver; Zehnder, Thomas . Studies in the Atharvaveda : Proceedings of the 3rd Zurich International Conference on Indian Literature and Philosophy. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 193-229.
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VeLeCa: A verbal lexicon of Catalan with PCFP analysis Isogloss, 10(1):1-17.
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Concurrent processing of the prosodic hierarchy is supported by cortical entrainment and phase-amplitude coupling Cerebral Cortex, 34(12):1-15.
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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(12):241351.
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The Effects of Syntactic Dependencies and Speech Tempo on Macro-Rhythm In: Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Melbourne, Australia, 2 December 2024 - 5 December 2024. ASSTA, 157-161.
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Humans and great apes visually track event roles in similar ways PLoS Biology, 22(11):e3002857.
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Singular-plural verb stem alternation: uncovering global and local drivers of typological variation Linguistic Typology, 29(1):81-125.
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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(1):319-358.
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Beyond bigrams: call sequencing in the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) vocal system Royal Society Open Science, 11(11):218-240.
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Managing expectations: Referential expectedness and uncertainty in a syntactically flexible language Studies in Language:online.
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Vocal-visual combinations in wild chimpanzees Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 78(10):108.
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Areal and phylogenetic dimensions of word order variation in Indo-European languages Linguistics, 62(5):1085-1116.
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Adults Adapt to Child Speech in Causative Semantics Cognitive Science, 48(9):e13495.
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Densify: An R package to reduce empty cells in dataframes of typological linguistic data Journal of Open Source Software, 9(101):7024.
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Measuring acoustic dissimilarity of hierarchical markers in task-oriented dialogue with MFCC-based dynamic time warping In: Interspeech 2024, Kos, Greece, 1 September 2024 - 5 September 2024. ISCA, 4763-4767.
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Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution Physics of life reviews, 50:211-225.
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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 In: Speech Prosody 2024, Leiden, the Netherlands, 2 July 2024 - 5 July 2024. Speech Prosody Special Interest Group (SProSIG), 980-984.
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Exploring the evolutionary dynamics of sound symbolism In: 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam, 24 Juli 2024 - 27 Juli 2024. UC Merced, 1076-1083.
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A universal preference for animate agents in hominids iScience, 27(6):109996.
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VeLePa: Central Pame verbal inflection in a quantitative perspective Morphology, 34:281-319.
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Verbs or Nouns? A cross-linguistic study examining the effect of morphological complexity and input on children's early lexical development In: Annual Meetings of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam, 24 Juli 2024 - 27 Juli 2024. UC Merced, 2354-2361.
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Syntax-like structures in maternal contact calls of Chestnut-crowned Babblers (Pomatostomus ruficeps) International Journal of Primatology, 45(3):543-562.
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Acquisition of gender agreement depends on frequency distributions in specific contexts In: Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam, 24 Juli 2024 - 27 Juli 2024. UC Merced, 2496-2502.
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Deep history of cultural and linguistic evolution among Central African hunter-gatherers Nature Human Behaviour:online.
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Atharvaveda Paippalada Zurich Edition Book 4 (Version 1.0.0) [Data set] www.swissubase.ch: LaRS — Language Repository of Switzerland.
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Finding proportionality in computational approaches to morphological change In: 15th International Conference on Language Evolution (Evolang XV), Madison, WI, 18 May 2024. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistic, 83.
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Surprisal from language models can predict ERPs in processing predicate-argument structures only if enriched by an Agent Preference principle Neurobiology of language, 5(1):167-200.
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A structural and functional comparison of differential A and P indexing Linguistics, 62(2):295-321.
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Das Potenzial der frequenzspezifischen Neuromodulation für die Untersuchung und Verbesserung der Sprachverarbeitung im Gehirn Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie, 35(1):a000386.
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Short vs long stem alternations in Romance verbal inflection: the S-morphome Transactions of the Philological Society, 122(1):49-78.
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Speech intelligibility and its relation to auditory temporal processing in Czech and Swiss German subjects with and without tinnitus European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, 281(3):1589-1595.
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Embedding the prime model of real exponentiation into o‐minimal exponential fields Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 56(3):907-913.
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Portuguese and German Intonation Contours in a Two-Way Immersion School Languages, 9(2):54.
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Incremental sentence processing is guided by a preference for agents: EEG evidence from Basque Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 39(1):76-97.
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Supplementary Information to Scarlata & Widmer, Daten und Zahlen zur Struktur rigvedischer Metren : LaRS — Language Repository of Switzerland.
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Diverging neural dynamics for syntactic structure building in naturalistic speaking and listening Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(11):e2310766121.
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Neurofeedback In: Schlee, Winfried; Langguth, Berthold; de Ridder, Dick; Vanneste, S; Kleinjung, Tobias; Moller, Aage R . Textbook of Tinnitus (Second Edition). Cham: Springer, 653-666.
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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Voice Recognition 2024, University of Zurich, Philosophische Fakultät.
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Speech Patterns in Child Speech and Their Origins 2024, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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Negation in First Language Acquisition: Evidence from Typologically Diverse Languages 2024, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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The Neural Dynamics of Speech Perception 2024, University of Zurich, Philosophische Fakultät.
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Acoustic, phonetic, and phonological features of Drehu vowels Journal of the Acoustical Society of America:2612-2626.
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