| Meaningful call combinations and compositional processing in the southern pied babbler S Engesser, AR Ridley, SW Townsend Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (21), 5976-5981, 2016 | 138 | 2016 |
| Compositionality in animals and humans SW Townsend, S Engesser, S Stoll, K Zuberbühler, B Bickel PLoS Biology 16 (8), e2006425, 2018 | 99 | 2018 |
| Experimental evidence for phonemic contrasts in a nonhuman vocal system S Engesser, JMS Crane, JL Savage, AF Russell, SW Townsend PLoS Biology 13 (6), e1002171, 2015 | 92 | 2015 |
| Combinatoriality in the vocal systems of nonhuman animals S Engesser, SW Townsend Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science 10 (4), e1493, 2019 | 88 | 2019 |
| Chestnut-crowned babbler calls are composed of meaningless shared building blocks S Engesser, JL Holub, LG O’Neill, AF Russell, SW Townsend Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (9), 19579-19584, 2019 | 36 | 2019 |
| Element repetition rates encode functionally distinct information in pied babbler ‘clucks’ and ‘purrs’ S Engesser, AR Ridley, SW Townsend Animal cognition 20 (5), 953-960, 2017 | 21 | 2017 |
| Collective close calling mediates group cohesion in foraging meerkats via spatially determined differences in call rates S Engesser, M Marta B. Animal Behaviour 185, 73-82, 2022 | 20 | 2022 |
| Internal acoustic structuring in pied babbler recruitment cries specifies the form of recruitment S Engesser, AR Ridley, MB Manser, A Manser, SW Townsend Behavioral Ecology 29 (5), 1021–1030, 2018 | 13 | 2018 |
| Combinatoriality in the vocal systems of nonhuman animals. WIREs Cognitive Science, 10 (4), 1–10 S Engesser, SW Townsend | 7 | 2019 |
| Function of ‘close’calls in a group foraging carnivore, Suricata suricatta S Engesser University of Zurich, 2011 | 7 | 2011 |
| Multi-level combinatoriality in magpie non-song vocalizations SL Walsh, S Engesser, SW Townsend, AR Ridley Journal of the Royal Society Interface 20 (199), 20220679, 2023 | 5 | 2023 |
| Vocal Combinations in the Southern Pied Babbler (Turdoides Bicolor) and the Chestnut-crowned Babbler (Pomatostomus Ruficeps): Implications for the Evolution of Human Language S Engesser University of Zurich, 2017 | 4 | 2017 |
| Babbler Phonology and Combinatorial Systems (in response to R Huybregts Babbling Birds) S Engesser, WT Fitch Inference International Review of Science 6 (2), 2021 | 3 | 2021 |
| Syntax-like Structures in Maternal Contact Calls of Chestnut-Crowned Babblers (Pomatostomus ruficeps) S Spiess, HK Mylne, S Engesser, JG Mine, LG O’Neill, AF Russell, ... International Journal of Primatology 45 (3), 543-562, 2024 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bridging the Gap Between Human Language and Animal Vocal Communication S Engesser, SW Townsend The Routledge International Handbook of Comparative Psychology, 251-262, 2022 | 2 | 2022 |
| Open compositionality in pied babbler call combinations S Engesser, AR Ridley, SK Watson, S Kita, SW Townsend The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference, 2020 | 2 | 2020 |
| Seeds of language-like generativity in bird call combinations S Engesser, AR Ridley, SK Watson, S Kita, SW Townsend Proceedings B 291 (2033), 20240922, 2024 | 1 | 2024 |
| The power of sound: unravelling how acoustic communication shapes group dynamics EF Briefer, B Xie, S Engesser, C Sueur, TM Freeberg, JB Brask Philosophical Transactions B 379 (1905), 20230182, 2024 | 1 | 2024 |
| Data from: internal acoustic structuring in pied babbler recruitment cries specifies the form of recruitment S Engesser, AR Ridley, MB Manser, A Manser, SW Townsend University of Liverpool, 2018 | 1 | 2018 |
| Call combination production is linked to the social environment in Western Australian magpies (Gymnorhina tibicen dorsalis) SL Walsh, SW Townsend, S Engesser, AR Ridley Philosophical Transactions B 379 (1905), 20230198, 2024 | | 2024 |
Simon W TownsendAssociate Professor, University of Warwick & Assistant Professor, University of ZurichVerified email at warwick.ac.uk
