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ArticleScience advances2019

Titi monkeys combine alarm calls to create probabilistic meaning.

Mélissa Berthet, Geoffrey Mesbahi, Aude Pajot, Cristiane Cäsar, Christof Neumann, Klaus Zuberbühler

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Article in Science advances, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Utterance evolution: the road to generative, combinatorial communicators.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026
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  2. The As and Bs of titi monkey linguistics: why emotional communication is not the enemy.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026
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  10. Animal linguistics: a primer.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2023
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  12. Transition to language: From agent perception to event representation.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science · 2022
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  14. Event parsing and the origins of grammar.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science · 2022
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  18. Syntax and compositionality in animal communication.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Mélissa BerthetInstitute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-3170-1315
Geoffrey MesbahiInstitute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-0276-3901
Aude PajotInstitute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Cristiane CäsarSchool of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.
Christof NeumannInstitute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-0236-1219
Klaus ZuberbühlerInstitute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-8378-088X

Funding

European Research Council 283871
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Previous work suggested that titi monkeys

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Vocalization, AnimalAnimalsBayes TheoremFemaleMalePitheciidaeProbabilitySoftwareVideo Recording

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PMID31123704
PMCPMC6527438

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