Call combinations in birds and the evolution of compositional syntax

Alarm calls evoke a visual search image of a predator in birds

(2018) Toshitaka N. Suzuki   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Foraging intention affects whether willow tits call to attract members of mixed-species flocks

(2017) Toshitaka N. Suzuki et al.   Royal Society Open Science

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

Communication about predator type by a bird using discrete, graded and combinatorial variation in alarm calls

(2013) Toshitaka N. Suzuki   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Songs to syntax: the linguistics of birdsong

(2011) Robert C. Berwick et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Twitter evolution: converging mechanisms in birdsong and human speech

(2010) Johan J. Bolhuis et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

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