Syntax and compositionality in animal communication

Evolutionary roads to syntax

(2019) Klaus Zuberbühler   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Titi monkeys combine alarm calls to create probabilistic meaning

(2019) Mélissa Berthet et al.   Science Advances

Meaningful syntactic structure in songbird vocalizations?

(2018) Johan J. Bolhuis et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Compositionality in animals and humans

(2018) Simon W. Townsend et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

What do animals learn in artificial grammar studies?

(2017) Gabriël J.L. Beckers et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Song hybridization events during revolutionary song change provide insights into cultural transmission in humpback whales

(2017) Ellen C. Garland et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Listeners can extract meaning from non-linguistic infant vocalisations cross-culturally

(2017) Verena Kersken et al.   Scientific Reports

Meaningful call combinations and compositional processing in the southern pied babbler

(2016) Sabrina Engesser et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

What Do Monkey Calls Mean?

(2016) Philippe Schlenker et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls

(2016) Toshitaka N. Suzuki et al.   Nature Communications

Sequential information in a great ape utterance

(2016) Pawel Fedurek et al.   Scientific Reports

Monkey vocal tracts are speech-ready

(2016) W. T. Fitch et al.   Science Advances

Suffixation influences receivers' behaviour in non-human primates

(2015) C. Coye et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Experimental Evidence for Phonemic Contrasts in a Nonhuman Vocal System

(2015) Sabrina Engesser et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Functional flexibility in wild bonobo vocal behaviour

(2015) Zanna Clay et al.   PeerJ

How Could Language Have Evolved?

(2014) Johan J. Bolhuis et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Titi monkey call sequences vary with predator location and type

(2013) C. Casar et al.   Biology Letters

Primate feedstock for the evolution of consonants

(2013) Adriano R. Lameira et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Evidence for semantic communication in titi monkey alarm calls

(2012) Cristiane Cäsar et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The alarm call system of wild black-fronted titi monkeys, Callicebus nigrifrons

(2012) Cristiane Cäsar et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Generation times in wild chimpanzees and gorillas suggest earlier divergence times in great ape and human evolution

(2012) K. E. Langergraber et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Context-related call combinations in female Diana monkeys

(2011) Agnès Candiotti et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Call combinations in monkeys: Compositional or idiomatic expressions?

(2011) Kate Arnold et al.   BRAIN AND LANGUAGE

Gorilla and Orangutan Brains Conform to the Primate Cellular Scaling Rules: Implications for Human Evolution

(2011) Suzana Herculano-Houzel et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Songbirds possess the spontaneous ability to discriminate syntactic rules

(2011) Kentaro Abe et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Bonobos Extract Meaning from Call Sequences

(2011) Zanna Clay et al.   PLoS One

Food-associated calling sequences in bonobos

(2009) Zanna Clay et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Evolution by leaps: gene duplication in bacteria

(2009) Margrethe H Serres et al.   Biology Direct

Campbell's Monkeys Use Affixation to Alter Call Meaning

(2009) Karim Ouattara et al.   PLoS One

Campbell's monkeys concatenate vocalizations into context-specific call sequences

(2009) K. Ouattara et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Meaningful call combinations in a non-human primate

(2008) Kate Arnold et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY