All Publications (2009ff)
The following is a chronological list of all types of publications by members of the Department for Comparative Language Sciences.
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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:Epub ahead of print.
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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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Stephen C. Levinson: A Grammar of Yélî Dnye: The Papuan language of Rossel Island. Linguistic Typology:Epub ahead of print.
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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: Frank, Michael C; Majid, Asifa. Open Encyclopaedia of Cognitive Science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, online.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Multiple evolutionary pressures shape identical consonant avoidance in the world’s languages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(27):e2316677121.
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Review of Frederik Hartmann: Germanic phylogeny. Folia Linguistica Historica, 45(1):325-330.
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Vowel predictability and omission in Anindilyakwa. In: Kim, Ji Yea; Miatto, Veronica; Petrovic, Andrija; Repetti, Lori. Epenthesis and beyond: Recent approaches to insertion in phonology and its interfaces. Berlin: Language Science Press, 57-84.
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Sprachliche Vorgeschichte. In: Glaser, Elvira; Kabatek, Johannes; Sonnenhauser, Barbara. Sprachräume der Schweiz: Band 1: Sprachen. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, 1-20.
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Word Order Variation and Change in Indo-European: Insights from a Parallel Corpus. 2024, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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The Social Cognition Parallax Interview Corpus (SCOPIC) Project Guidelines. Language Documentation & Conservation, 12:163-237.
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VeLeSpa: An inflected verbal lexicon of Peninsular Spanish and a quantitative analysis of paradigmatic predictability. Language Resources and Evaluation:Epub ahead of print.
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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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Negation in First Language Acquisition: Evidence from Typologically Diverse Languages. 2024, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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The Agent Preference in Sentence Production and Comprehension: Experimental Evidence from Basque. 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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Daten und Zahlen zur Struktur rigvedischer Metren. Zeitschrift der deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 174(1):191-217.
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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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Atharvaveda Paippalada Zurich Edition Book 1 (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. : LaRS — Language Repository of Switzerland.
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Adversative Connectives from a Historical, Experimental and Computation Perspective. 2024, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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Intraspeaker Speech Variability in Interaction. 2024, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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