S. Townsend

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Simon Townsend, Simon William Townsend, Simon W. Townsend, Simon W Townsend, S W Townsend
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83 papers · 3,200 citations · H-index 29

PAPERS

Conspecific alarm calls, but not food-associated calls, elicit affect-based and object-based mental representations in a bonobo (Pan paniscus)
20250 citationsauthor #5
Predictability of next elements in chimpanzee gesture sequences
20240 citationsauthor #12
Seeds of language-like generativity in bird call combinations
20242 citationsauthor #5
Beyond bigrams: call sequencing in the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) vocal system
202413 citationsauthor #5
Call combination production is linked to the social environment in Western Australian magpies (Gymnorhina tibicen dorsalis)
20242 citationsauthor #2
Cross-population variation in usage of a call combination: evidence of signal usage flexibility in wild bonobos
20245 citationsauthor #3
Chimpanzee gestural exchanges share temporal structure with human language.
20249 citationsauthor #13
Vocal-visual combinations in wild chimpanzees
20235 citationsauthor #9
Multi-level combinatoriality in magpie non-song vocalizations
20235 citationsauthor #3
Genetic distance from wolves affects family dogs’ reactions towards howls
20238 citationsauthor #10
Between-group variation in production of pant-grunt vocalizations by wild bonobos (Pan paniscus)
20234 citationsauthor #3
Cognitive constraints on vocal combinatoriality in a social bird
20232 citationsauthor #6
Call combinations and compositional processing in wild chimpanzees
202337 citationsauthor #7
Declarative referential gesturing in a wild chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)
202211 citationsauthor #5
Vocal signals facilitate cooperative hunting in wild chimpanzees
202221 citationsauthor #9
Syntax-like Structures in Maternal Contact Calls of Chestnut-Crowned Babblers (Pomatostomus ruficeps)
20224 citationsauthor #7
The function and evolution of child-directed 1 communication 2
20220 citationsauthor #7
Degraded and computer-generated speech processing in a bonobo
20224 citationsauthor #5
The function and evolution of child-directed communication
202223 citationsauthor #7
Common evolutionary origin of acoustic communication in choanate vertebrates
202237 citationsauthor #2
Chimpanzee vocal communication: what we know from the wild
202210 citationsauthor #4
Call combinations in chimpanzees: a social tool?
202220 citationsauthor #5
Speech segmentation: New dogs, old tricks?
20210 citationsauthor #1
First observation of a chimpanzee with albinism in the wild: Social interactions and subsequent infanticide
202118 citationsauthor #8
Chimpanzee voice prints? Insights from transfer learning experiments from human voices
20217 citationsauthor #4
Reply to comment on “Nonadjacent dependency processing in monkeys, apes, and humans”
20210 citationsauthor #6
From collocations to call-ocations: using linguistic methods to quantify animal call combinations
202112 citationsauthor #6
Dwarf mongoose alarm calls: investigating a complex non-human animal call
202015 citationsauthor #7
Nonadjacent dependency processing in monkeys, apes, and humans
202035 citationsauthor #6
Call combinations in great apes and the evolution of syntax
202024 citationsauthor #2
An exploration of Menzerath's law in wild mountain gorilla vocal sequences
202018 citationsauthor #5
Combinatoriality in the vocal systems of nonhuman animals.
201974 citationsauthor #2
Chestnut-crowned babbler calls are composed of meaningless shared building blocks
201922 citationsauthor #5
Multimodal communication and language origins: integrating gestures and vocalizations
2019101 citationsauthor #3
Infant-directed speech enhances recognizability of individual mothers’ voices
20192 citationsauthor #3
Investigating the potential for call combinations in a lifelong vocal learner
201915 citationsauthor #2
Compositionality in animals and humans
201878 citationsauthor #1
Wolf howls encode both sender- and context-specific information
201817 citationsauthor #2
Internal acoustic structuring in pied babbler recruitment cries specifies the form of recruitment
201811 citationsauthor #5
Meaning-refining acoustic variation within the internal structure of pied babbler recruitment cries
20180 citationsauthor #3
From Animal Communication to Linguistics and Back : Insight from Combinatorial Abilities in Monkeys and Birds
201810 citationsauthor #2
Natural-Alarm-calls
20170 citationsauthor #3
Element repetition rates encode functionally distinct information in pied babbler ‘clucks’ and ‘purrs’
201717 citationsauthor #3
Alarm-calls-predator-presentations
20170 citationsauthor #3
Communication: Animal Steps on the Road to Syntax?
201715 citationsauthor #2
Element repetition rates encode functionally distinct information in pied babbler ‘clucks’ and ‘purrs’
20170 citationsauthor #3
All clear ? Meerkats attend to contextual information in close calls to coordinate 1 vigilance 2 3
20170 citationsauthor #1
Exorcising Grice's ghost: an empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals
2017183 citationsauthor #1
Reactions-natural-alarm-calls
20170 citationsauthor #3
Wild dwarf mongooses produce general alert and predator-specific alarm calls
201723 citationsauthor #3
Meaningful call combinations and compositional processing in the southern pied babbler
2016122 citationsauthor #3
Age/sex differences in third-party rank relationship knowledge in wild vervet monkeys, Chlorocebus aethiops pygerythrus
201514 citationsauthor #4
Experimental Evidence for Phonemic Contrasts in a Nonhuman Vocal System
201567 citationsauthor #5
Vocal learning in the functionally referential food grunts of chimpanzees.
2015190 citationsauthor #2
A survey of the context and structure of high- and low-amplitude calls in mammals
201531 citationsauthor #2
Reply to Fischer et al.
201518 citationsauthor #2
CHIMPANZEE FOOD GRUNTS ARE DIRECTED AT SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALS: PRECURSORS FOR TRIADIC COMMUNICATION?
20140 citationsauthor #2
Language evolution: syntax before phonology?
2014104 citationsauthor #5
INTENTIONALITY IN THE PRODUCTION OF CHIMPANZEE ALARM CALLS
20140 citationsauthor #2
The Information Content of Wolf (and Dog) Social Communication
201432 citationsauthor #2
Nonlinearities in Meerkat Alarm Calls Prevent Receivers from Habituating
201459 citationsauthor #4
Why Did the Meerkat Cross the Road? Flexible Adaptation of Phylogenetically-Old Behavioural Strategies to Modern-Day Threats
201310 citationsauthor #2
Social monitoring via close calls in meerkats
201337 citationsauthor #2
Wolf Howling Is Mediated by Relationship Quality Rather Than Underlying Emotional Stress
201329 citationsauthor #2
Criteria used for identifying intentional production of communicative signals, as outlined in the study of great ape gestures [19]–[36].
20131 citationsauthor #2
Chimpanzee food calls are directed at specific individuals
2013132 citationsauthor #3
Functionally Referential Communication in Mammals: The Past, Present and the Future
2013223 citationsauthor #1
Chimpanzee Alarm Call Production Meets Key Criteria for Intentionality
2013273 citationsauthor #2
Flexible alarm calling in meerkats: the role of the social environment and predation urgency
201249 citationsauthor #1
A simple test of vocal individual recognition in wild meerkats
201263 citationsauthor #1
All clear? Meerkats attend to contextual information in close calls to coordinate vigilance
201168 citationsauthor #1
The function of non-linear phenomena in meerkat alarm calls
201149 citationsauthor #1
Copulation Calls in Female Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) Convey Identity but Do Not Accurately Reflect Fertility
201124 citationsauthor #1
The function of nonlinear phenomena in meerkat alarm calls
201196 citationsauthor #1
Meerkat close calls encode group-specific signatures, but receivers fail to discriminate
201075 citationsauthor #1
Production of food-associated calls in wild male chimpanzees is dependent on the composition of the audience
2010113 citationsauthor #4
Intra-sexual competition and vocal counter-strategies in wild female chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)
20092 citationsauthor #1
Audience effects in chimpanzee copulation calls
200950 citationsauthor #1
Wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) distinguish between different scream types: evidence from a playback study
200992 citationsauthor #2
Female Chimpanzees Use Copulation Calls Flexibly to Prevent Social Competition
2008119 citationsauthor #1
Female-led infanticide in wild chimpanzees.
2007142 citationsauthor #1
NCCR Evolving Language Report Year 1-3
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Experimental Evidence for Phonemic-like Contrasts in a Nonhuman Vocal System
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TIMELINE

2007 142 citations

2008 119 citations

2009 144 citations

2010 188 citations

2011 237 citations

2012 112 citations

2013 705 citations

2014 195 citations

2015 320 citations

2016 122 citations

2017 238 citations

2018 116 citations

2019 214 citations

2020 92 citations

2021 37 citations

2022 130 citations

2023 61 citations

2024 31 citations

2025 0 citations

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