Simon Townsend - Publications

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Universität Zürich, Zürich, ZH, Switzerland 

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2025 Wegdell F, Fryns C, Schick J, Nellissen L, Laporte M, Surbeck M, van Noordwijk MA, Masi S, Hellwig B, Willems EP, Zuberbühler K, van Schaik CP, Stoll S, Townsend SW. The evolution of infant-directed communication: Comparing vocal input across all great apes. Science Advances. 11: eadt7718. PMID 40561040 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adt7718  0.374
2025 Leroux M, Lahiff NJ, Zulberti C, Epping A, Uerling C, Taglialatela JP, Mueller JL, Watson SK, Townsend SW. Non-adjacent dependency processing (or lack thereof) in bonobos: an artificial grammar experiment. Royal Society Open Science. 12: 242173. PMID 40271138 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.242173  0.356
2025 Hervais-Adelman A, Townsend SW. How did vocal communication come to dominate human language? A view from the womb. Plos Biology. 23: e3003141. PMID 40233095 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3003141  0.423
2024 Bosshard AB, Burkart JM, Merlo P, Cathcart C, Townsend SW, Bickel B. Beyond bigrams: call sequencing in the common marmoset () vocal system. Royal Society Open Science. 11: 240218. PMID 39507993 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.240218  0.724
2024 Engesser S, Ridley AR, Watson SK, Kita S, Townsend SW. Seeds of language-like generativity in bird call combinations. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 291: 20240922. PMID 39412245 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.0922  0.469
2024 Schamberg I, Surbeck M, Townsend SW. Cross-population variation in usage of a call combination: evidence of signal usage flexibility in wild bonobos. Animal Cognition. 27: 58. PMID 39212694 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-024-01884-4  0.745
2024 Badihi G, Graham KE, Grund C, Safryghin A, Soldati A, Donnellan E, Hashimoto C, Mine JG, Piel AK, Stewart F, Slocombe KE, Wilke C, Townsend SW, Zuberbühler K, Zulberti C, et al. Chimpanzee gestural exchanges share temporal structure with human language. Current Biology : Cb. 34: R673-R674. PMID 39043136 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.06.009  0.775
2024 Walsh SL, Townsend SW, Engesser S, Ridley AR. Call combination production is linked to the social environment in Western Australian magpies (). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 379: 20230198. PMID 38768205 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0198  0.372
2023 Watson SK, Mine JG, O'Neill LG, Mueller JL, Russell AF, Townsend SW. Cognitive constraints on vocal combinatoriality in a social bird. Iscience. 26: 106977. PMID 37332672 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106977  0.761
2023 Leroux M, Schel AM, Wilke C, Chandia B, Zuberbühler K, Slocombe KE, Townsend SW. Call combinations and compositional processing in wild chimpanzees. Nature Communications. 14: 2225. PMID 37142584 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37816-y  0.659
2023 Walsh SL, Engesser S, Townsend SW, Ridley AR. Multi-level combinatoriality in magpie non-song vocalizations. Journal of the Royal Society, Interface. 20: 20220679. PMID 36722171 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2022.0679  0.402
2022 Spiess S, Mylne HK, Engesser S, Mine JG, O'Neill LG, Russell AF, Townsend SW. Syntax-like Structures in Maternal Contact Calls of Chestnut-Crowned Babblers (). International Journal of Primatology. 45: 543-562. PMID 38948101 DOI: 10.1007/s10764-022-00332-9  0.781
2022 Jorgewich-Cohen G, Townsend SW, Padovese LR, Klein N, Praschag P, Ferrara CR, Ettmar S, Menezes S, Varani AP, Serano J, Sánchez-Villagra MR. Common evolutionary origin of acoustic communication in choanate vertebrates. Nature Communications. 13: 6089. PMID 36284092 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33741-8  0.343
2022 Bosshard AB, Leroux M, Lester NA, Bickel B, Stoll S, Townsend SW. From collocations to call-ocations: using linguistic methods to quantify animal call combinations. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 76: 122. PMID 36034316 DOI: 10.1007/s00265-022-03224-3  0.738
2022 Mine JG, Slocombe KE, Willems EP, Gilby IC, Yu M, Thompson ME, Muller MN, Wrangham RW, Townsend SW, Machanda ZP. Vocal signals facilitate cooperative hunting in wild chimpanzees. Science Advances. 8: eabo5553. PMID 35905190 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abo5553  0.77
2022 Lahiff NJ, Slocombe KE, Taglialatela J, Dellwo V, Townsend SW. Degraded and computer-generated speech processing in a bonobo. Animal Cognition. PMID 35595881 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-022-01621-9  0.379
2022 Schick J, Fryns C, Wegdell F, Laporte M, Zuberbühler K, van Schaik CP, Townsend SW, Stoll S. The function and evolution of child-directed communication. Plos Biology. 20: e3001630. PMID 35522717 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001630  0.742
2021 Leroux M, Monday G, Chandia B, Akankwasa JW, Zuberbühler K, Hobaiter C, Crockford C, Townsend SW, Asiimwe C, Fedurek P. First observation of a chimpanzee with albinism in the wild: Social interactions and subsequent infanticide. American Journal of Primatology. e23305. PMID 34270104 DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23305  0.527
2020 Collier K, Radford AN, Stoll S, Watson SK, Manser MB, Bickel B, Townsend SW. Dwarf mongoose alarm calls: investigating a complex non-human animal call. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 287: 20192514. PMID 32962548 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2514  0.777
2019 Engesser S, Holub JL, O'Neill LG, Russell AF, Townsend SW. Chestnut-crowned babbler calls are composed of meaningless shared building blocks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 31501336 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1819513116  0.463
2019 Fröhlich M, Sievers C, Townsend SW, Gruber T, van Schaik CP. Multimodal communication and language origins: integrating gestures and vocalizations. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. PMID 31250542 DOI: 10.1111/brv.12535  0.685
2019 Engesser S, Townsend SW. Combinatoriality in the vocal systems of nonhuman animals. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Cognitive Science. 10: e1493. PMID 30724476 DOI: 10.1002/wcs.1493  0.457
2018 Townsend SW, Engesser S, Stoll S, Zuberbühler K, Bickel B. Compositionality in animals and humans. Plos Biology. 16: e2006425. PMID 30110319 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pbio.2006425  0.806
2017 Russell AF, Townsend SW. Communication: Animal Steps on the Road to Syntax? Current Biology : Cb. 27: R753-R755. PMID 28787604 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.066  0.471
2017 Engesser S, Ridley AR, Townsend SW. Element repetition rates encode functionally distinct information in pied babbler 'clucks' and 'purrs'. Animal Cognition. 20: 953-960. PMID 28730513 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-017-1114-6  0.403
2016 Townsend SW, Koski SE, Byrne RW, Slocombe KE, Bickel B, Boeckle M, Braga Goncalves I, Burkart JM, Flower T, Gaunet F, Glock HJ, Gruber T, Jansen DA, Liebal K, Linke A, et al. Exorcising Grice's ghost: an empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. PMID 27480784 DOI: 10.1111/Brv.12289  0.813
2016 Engesser S, Ridley AR, Townsend SW. Meaningful call combinations and compositional processing in the southern pied babbler. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 113: 5976-81. PMID 27155011 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1600970113  0.47
2015 Engesser S, Crane JM, Savage JL, Russell AF, Townsend SW. Experimental Evidence for Phonemic Contrasts in a Nonhuman Vocal System. Plos Biology. 13: e1002171. PMID 26121619 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002171  0.441
2015 Watson SK, Townsend SW, Schel AM, Wilke C, Wallace EK, Cheng L, West V, Slocombe KE. Vocal learning in the functionally referential food grunts of chimpanzees. Current Biology : Cb. 25: 495-9. PMID 25660548 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.12.032  0.362
2014 Collier K, Bickel B, van Schaik CP, Manser MB, Townsend SW. Language evolution: syntax before phonology? Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 281: 20140263. PMID 24943364 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2014.0263  0.734
2013 Schel AM, Townsend SW, Machanda Z, Zuberbühler K, Slocombe KE. Chimpanzee alarm call production meets key criteria for intentionality. Plos One. 8: e76674. PMID 24146908 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0076674  0.676
2009 Townsend S, Zuberbuhler K. Audience effects in chimpanzee copulation calls. Communicative & Integrative Biology. 2: 282-4. PMID 19641752 DOI: 10.4161/Cib.2.3.6796  0.533
2009 Slocombe KE, Townsend SW, Zuberbühler K. Wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) distinguish between different scream types: evidence from a playback study. Animal Cognition. 12: 441-9. PMID 19112583 DOI: 10.1007/S10071-008-0204-X  0.516
2008 Townsend SW, Deschner T, Zuberbühler K. Female chimpanzees use copulation calls flexibly to prevent social competition. Plos One. 3: e2431. PMID 22423311 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0002431  0.427
2007 Townsend SW, Slocombe KE, Emery Thompson M, Zuberbühler K. Female-led infanticide in wild chimpanzees. Current Biology : Cb. 17: R355-6. PMID 17502085 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2007.03.020  0.437
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