Sabrina Engesser

University of Copenhagen — Denmark

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

8h-index545citations18works4.32yr avg
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Research Topics

Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior(16), Language and cultural evolution(12), Animal Behavior and Reproduction(6), Marine animal studies overview(4), Linguistic Variation and Morphology(3)

Publications18 total

Seeds of language-like generativity in bird call combinations
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
The power of sound: unravelling how acoustic communication shapes group dynamics
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
Call combination production is linked to the social environment in Western Australian magpies ( <i>Gymnorhina tibicen dorsalis</i> )
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Multi-level combinatoriality in magpie non-song vocalizations
Journal of The Royal Society Interface·2023· 8 citedOpen Access
Syntax-like Structures in Maternal Contact Calls of Chestnut-Crowned Babblers (Pomatostomus ruficeps)
International Journal of Primatology·2022· 6 citedOpen Access
Bridging the Gap Between Human Language and Animal Vocal Communication
2022· 1 cited
Collective close calling mediates group cohesion in foraging meerkats via spatially determined differences in call rates
Animal Behaviour·2022· 21 citedOpen Access
Babbler Phonology and Combinatorial Systems
Inference International Review of Science·2021· 2 cited
An information and coding theoretical approach to combinatorial communication
eScholarship (California Digital Library)·2021Open Access
Chestnut-crowned babbler calls are composed of meaningless shared building blocks
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2019· 37 citedOpen Access
Combinatoriality in the vocal systems of nonhuman animals
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science·2019· 86 citedOpen Access
Compositionality in animals and humans
PLoS Biology·2018· 104 citedOpen Access
Internal acoustic structuring in pied babbler recruitment cries specifies the form of recruitment
Behavioral Ecology·2018· 11 citedOpen Access
Meaning-refining acoustic variation within the internal structure of pied babbler recruitment cries
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang12)·2018Open Access
Element repetition rates encode functionally distinct information in pied babbler ‘clucks’ and ‘purrs’
Animal Cognition·2017· 19 cited
Vocal Combinations in the Southern Pied Babbler (Turdoides bicolor) and the Chestnut-Crowned Babbler (Pomatostomus ruficeps): Implications for the Evolution of Human Language
Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)·2017Open Access
Meaningful call combinations and compositional processing in the southern pied babbler
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2016· 165 citedOpen Access
Experimental Evidence for Phonemic Contrasts in a Nonhuman Vocal System
PLoS Biology·2015· 72 citedOpen Access

Frequent Co-authors

Simon W. Townsend(13), Amanda R. Ridley(7), Andrew F. Russell(3), Marta B. Manser(3), Louis G. O’Neill(2), Sarah L. Walsh(2), Sabine Stoll(1), Klaus Zuberbühler(1), Balthasar Bickel(1), Jodie M. S. Crane(1), James L. Savage(1), Jennifer L. Holub(1), Andri Manser(1), Elodie F. Briefer(1), Bing Xie(1), Cédric Sueur(1), Todd M. Freeberg(1), Josefine Bohr Brask(1), S. Spiess(1), Helen K. Mylne(1)