Journal Article

Leroux, Maël, Schel, Anne M., Wilke, Claudia, Chandia, Bosco, Zuberbühler, Klaus, Slocombe, Katie E. and Townsend, Simon W. (2023) Call combinations and compositional processing in wild chimpanzees. Nature Communications, 14 (1). 2225. doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37816-y ISSN 2041-1723.

Lehoczki, Fanni, Andics, Attila, Kershenbaum, Arik, Kubinyi, Enikő, Passilongo, Daniela, Root-Gutteridge, Holly, Range, Friederike, Sánchez, Vicente Palacios, Schmidt, Lori, Townsend, Simon W., Watson, Stuart K. and Faragó, Tamás (2023) Genetic distance from wolves affects family dogs’ reactions towards howls. Communications Biology, 6 (1). 129. doi:10.1038/s42003-023-04450-9 ISSN 2399-3642.

Schamberg, Isaac, Clay, Zanna, Townsend, Simon W. and Surbeck, Martin (2023) Between-group variation in production of pant-grunt vocalizations by wild bonobos (Pan paniscus). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 77 (1). 14. doi:10.1007/s00265-022-03285-4 ISSN 0340-5443.

Lahiff, Nicole J., Slocombe, Katie E., Taglialatela, Jared, Dellwo, Volker and Townsend, Simon W. (2022) Degraded and computer-generated speech processing in a bonobo. Animal Cognition, 25 . pp. 1393-1398. doi:10.1007/s10071-022-01621-9 ISSN 1435-9448.

Wilke, Claudia, Lahiff, Nicole J., Sabbi, Kris H., Watts, David P., Townsend, Simon W. and Slocombe, Katie E. (2022) Declarative referential gesturing in a wild chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119 (47). e2206486119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2206486119 ISSN 0027-8424.

Spiess, Silvan, Mylne, Helen K., Engesser, Sabrina, Mine, Joseph G., O’Neill, Louis G., Russell, Andrew F. and Townsend, Simon W. (2022) Syntax-like structures in maternal contact calls of Chestnut-Crowned Babblers (Pomatostomus ruficeps). International Journal of Primatology . doi:10.1007/s10764-022-00332-9 ISSN 0164-0291. (In Press)

Jorgewich-Cohen, Gabriel, Townsend, Simon W., Padovese, Linilson Rodrigues, Klein, Nicole, Praschag, Peter, Ferrara, Camila R., Ettmar, Stephan, Menezes, Sabrina, Varani, Arthur Pinatti, Serano, Jaren and Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo R. (2022) Common evolutionary origin of acoustic communication in choanate vertebrates. Nature Communications, 13 (1). 6089. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-33741-8 ISSN 2041-1723.

Leroux, Maël, Chandia, Bosco, Bosshard, Alexandra B., Zuberbühler, Klaus and Townsend, Simon W. (2022) Call combinations in chimpanzees : a social tool? Behavioral Ecology, 33 (5). pp. 1036-1043. doi:10.1093/beheco/arac074 ISSN 1465-7279.

Slocombe, Katie E, Lahiff, Nicole J, Wilke, Claudia and Townsend, Simon W. (2022) Chimpanzee vocal communication : what we know from the wild. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 46 . 101171. doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2022.101171 ISSN 23521546.

Bosshard, Alexandra B., Leroux, Maël, Lester, Nicholas A., Bickel, Balthasar, Stoll, Sabine and Townsend, Simon W. (2022) From collocations to call-ocations : using linguistic methods to quantify animal call combinations. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 76 (9). 122. doi:10.1007/s00265-022-03224-3 ISSN 0340-5443.

Mine, J., Slocombe, K. E., Willems, E. P, Gilby, I. C., Yu, M., Emery Thompson, M., Muller, M. N., Wrangham, R. W., Townsend, Simon W. and Machanda, Z. P. (2022) Vocal signals facilitate cooperative hunting in wild chimpanzees. Science Advances, 8 (30). eabo5553. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abo5553 ISSN 2375-2548.

Leroux, Maël, Monday, Gideon, Chandia, Bosco, Akankwasa, John W., Zuberbühler, Klaus, Hobaiter, Catherine, Crockford, Catherine, Townsend, Simon W., Asiimwe, Caroline and Fedurek, Pawel (2022) First observation of a chimpanzee with albinism in the wild : social interactions and subsequent infanticide. American Journal of Primatology, 84 (6). e23305. doi:10.1002/ajp.23305 ISSN 0275-2565.

Schick, Johanna, Fryns, Caroline, Wegdell, Franziska, Laporte, Marion, Zuberbühler, Klaus, van Schaik, Carel P., Townsend, Simon W. and Stoll, Sabine (2022) The function and evolution of child-directed communication. PLoS Biology, 20 (5). e3001630. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3001630 ISSN 1545-7885.

Leroux, Maël, Bosshard, Alexandra B., Chandia, Bosco, Manser, Andri, Zuberbühler, Klaus and Townsend, Simon W. (2021) Chimpanzees combine pant hoots with food calls into larger structures. Animal Behaviour, 179 . pp. 41-50. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.06.026 ISSN 0003-3472.

Watson, Stuart K., Burkart, Judith M., Schapiro, Steven J., Lambeth, Susan P., Mueller, Jutta L. and Townsend, Simon W. (2020) Nonadjacent dependency processing in monkeys, apes and humans. Science Advances, 6 (43). eabb0725. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abb0725 ISSN 2375-2548.

Collier, Katie, Radford, Andrew N., Stoll, Sabine, Watson, Stuart K., Manser, Marta B., Bickel, Balthasar and Townsend, Simon W. (2020) Dwarf mongoose alarm calls : investigating a complex non-human animal call. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287 (1935). 20192514. doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.2514 ISSN 0962-8452.

Fröhlich, Marlen, Sievers, Christine, Townsend, Simon W., Gruber, Thibaud and van Schaik, Carel P. (2019) Multimodal communication and language origins : integrating gestures and vocalizations. Biological Reviews, 94 (5). pp. 1809-1829. doi:10.1111/brv.12535 ISSN 1464-7931.

Engesser, Sabrina, Holub, Jennifer L., O’Neill, Louis G., Russell, Andrew F. and Townsend, Simon W. (2019) Chestnut-crowned babbler calls are composed of meaningless shared building blocks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116 (39). pp. 19579-19584. doi:10.1073/pnas.1819513116 ISSN 0027-8424.

Engesser, Sabrina and Townsend, Simon W. (2019) Combinatoriality in the vocal systems of nonhuman animals. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 10 (4). e1493. doi:10.1002/wcs.1493 ISSN 1939-5078.

Walsh, Sarah, Townsend, Simon W., Morgan, Kate and Reilly, Amanda R. (2019) Investigating the potential for call combinations in a lifelong vocal learner. Ethology, 125 (6). pp. 362-368. doi:10.1111/eth.12860 ISSN 0179-1613.

Watson, Stuart K., Townsend, Simon W. and Range, Friederike (2018) Wolf howls encode both sender- and context-specific information. Animal Behaviour, 145 . pp. 59-66. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.09.005 ISSN 0003-3472.

Engesser, Sabrina, Ridley, Amanda R., Manser, Marta B., Manser, Andri and Townsend, Simon W. (2018) Internal acoustic structuring in pied babbler recruitment cries specifies the form of recruitment. Behavioral Ecology, 29 (5). pp. 1021-1030. doi:10.1093/beheco/ary088 ISSN 1045-2249.

Townsend, Simon W., Engesser, Sabrina, Stoll, Sabine, Zuberbühler, Klaus and Bickel, Balthasar (2018) Compositionality in animals and humans. PLoS Biology, 16 (8). e2006425. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.2006425 ISSN 1545-7885.

Collier, Katie, Townsend, Simon W. and Manser, Marta B. (2017) Call concatenation in wild meerkats. Animal Behaviour, 134 . pp. 257-269. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.12.014 ISSN 0003-3472.

Collier, Katie, Radford, Andrew N., Townsend, Simon W. and Manser, Marta B. (2017) Wild dwarf mongooses produce general alert and predator-specific alarm calls. Behavioural Ecology, 28 (5). pp. 1293-1301. ISSN 1045-2249.

Engesser, Sabrina, Ridley, Amanda R. and Townsend, Simon W. (2017) Element repetition rates encode functionally distinct information in pied babbler ‘clucks’ and ‘purrs’. Animal Cognition, 20 (5). pp. 953-960. doi:10.1007/s10071-017-1114-6 ISSN 1435-9448.

Russell, Andrew F. and Townsend, Simon W. (2017) Communication : animal steps on the road to syntax? Current Biology, 27 (15). R753-R755. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.066 ISSN 0960-9822.

(2017) Exorcising Grice’s ghost : an empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals. Biological Reviews, 92 (3). pp. 1427-1433. doi:10.1111/brv.12289 ISSN 1464-7931.

Engesser, Sabrina, Ridley, Amanda R. and Townsend, Simon W. (2016) 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 (21). pp. 5976-5981. doi:10.1073/pnas.1600970113 ISSN 0027-8424.

Watson, Stuart K., Townsend, Simon W., Schel, Anne M., Wilke, Claudia, Wallace, Emma K., Cheng, Leveda, West, Victoria and Slocombe, Katie E. (2015) Reply to Fischer et al. Current Biology, 25 (21). R1030-R1031. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.09.024 ISSN 0960-9822.

Engesser, Sabrina, Crane, Jodie M. S., Savage, James L., Russell, Andrew F. and Townsend, Simon W. (2015) Experimental evidence for phonemic contrasts in a nonhuman vocal system. PLoS Biology, 13 (6). e1002171. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002171 ISSN 1545-7885.

Watson, Stuart K., Townsend, Simon W., Schel, Anne M., Wilke, Claudia, Wallace, Emma K., Cheng, Leveda, West, Victoria and Slocombe, Katie E. (2015) Vocal learning in the functionally referential food grunts of chimpanzees. Current Biology, 25 (4). pp. 495-499. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.12.032 ISSN 0960-9822.

Book Item

Townsend, Simon W. (2017) From animal communication to linguistics and back : insight from combinatorial abilities in monkeys and birds. In: Origins of Human Language : Continuities and Discontinuities with Nonhuman Primates. Speech Production and Perception . Frankfurt am Main, pp. 196-242. ISBN 9783631737262

Journal Item

Townsend, Simon W. and Hervais-Adelman, Alexis (2021) Speech segmentation : new dogs, old tricks? Current biology : CB, 31 (24). R1580-R1582. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2021.10.042