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From collocations to call-ocations : using linguistic methods to quantify animal call combinations
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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.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-022-03224-3
Abstract
Emerging data in a range of non-human animal species have highlighted a latent ability to combine certain pre-existing calls together into larger structures. Currently, however, the quantification of context-specific call combinations has received less attention. This is problematic because animal calls can co-occur with one another simply through chance alone. One common approach applied in language sciences to identify recurrent word combinations is collocation analysis. Through comparing the co-occurrence of two words with how each word combines with other words within a corpus, collocation analysis can highlight above chance, two-word combinations. Here, we demonstrate how this approach can also be applied to non-human animal signal sequences by implementing it on artificially generated data sets of call combinations. We argue collocation analysis represents a promising tool for identifying non-random, communicatively relevant call combinations and, more generally, signal sequences, in animals.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | ||||||
Publisher: | Springer | ||||||
ISSN: | 0340-5443 | ||||||
Official Date: | August 2022 | ||||||
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Volume: | 76 | ||||||
Number: | 9 | ||||||
Article Number: | 122 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s00265-022-03224-3 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 September 2022 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 September 2022 |
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