Steven Moran

ZORA Publication List

Publications

• 2025

  • Ekström, A. G., Karakostis, Dr. F. A., Snyder, W. D., & Moran, S. (2025). Rethinking Hominin Air Sac Loss in Light of Phylogenetically Meaningful Evidence Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 34(3), e70019. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.70019
  • Ekström, A. G., Tennie, C., Moran, S., & Everett, C. (2025). The Phoneme as a Cognitive Tool Topics in Cognitive Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.70021
  • Friedrichs, D., Ekström, A. G., Nolan, F., Moran, S., & Rosen, S. (2025). Static spectral cues serve as perceptual anchors in vowel recognition across a broad range of fundamental frequencies Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 158(2), 1560–1572. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0039058
  • Sæbø, L. M., Grossman, E., & Moran, S. (2025). Tonogenesis Diachronica, 42(3–4), 451–478. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.24022.sae
  • Gallot, Q., Tillé, Y., Depriester, C., Moran, S., & Zuberbühler, K. (2025). A primate grammar enabling incremental processing IScience, 28(4), 112229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.112229
  • Ekström, A. G., Gärdenfors, P., Snyder, W. D., Friedrichs, D., McCarthy, R. C., Tsapos, M., Tennie, C., Strait, D. S., Edlund, J., & Moran, S. (2025). Correlates of Vocal Tract Evolution in Late Pliocene and Pleistocene Hominins Human Nature, 36(1), 22–69. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-025-09487-9
  • Silva, C., & Moran, S. (2025). Consonant stability in Portuguese-based creoles Diachronica, 42(1), 82–117. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.23006.sil

• 2024

  • Moran, S., Eisen, E., Nikolaev, D., & Grossman, E. (2024). Operationalizing Borrowability: Phonological Segments as a Case Study Language. Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, 100(4), 671–698. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2024.a947038
  • Gallot, Q., Depriester, C., Moran, S., Zuberbühler, K., & Test, T. T. (2024). A non-human primate combinatorial system for long-distance communication IScience, 27(11), 111172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.111172
  • Ekström, A. G., Gannon, C., Edlund, J., Moran, S., & Lameira, A. R. (2024). Chimpanzee utterances refute purported missing links for novel vocalizations and syllabic speech Scientific Reports, 14(1), 17135. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-67005-w
  • Chodroff, Eleanor; Pažon, Blaž; Baker, Annie; Moran, Steven (2024). Phonetic Segmentation of the UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive In: Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), Torino, Italy, May 2024. ELRA and ICCL, 12724-12733.
  • Benítez-Burraco, A., & Moran, S. (2024). Editorial: The adaptive value of languages: non-linguistic causes of language diversity, volume II Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1387290. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1387290

• 2022

  • Lester, Nicholas A; Moran, Steven; Küntay, Aylin C; Allen, Shanley E M; Pfeiler, Barbara; Stoll, Sabine (2022). Detecting structured repetition in child-surrounding speech: Evidence from maximally diverse languages Cognition, 221:104986.

• 2020

  • Moran, Steven; Chiarcos, Christian (2020). Linguistic linked open data and under-resource languages: from collection to application In: Pareja-Lora, Antonio; Blume, Mara; Lust, Barbara . Development of Linguistic Linked Open Data Resources for Collaborative Data-Intensive Research in the Language Sciences. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 39-70.
  • Moran, Steven; Bickel, Balthasar (2020). Rejoinder to Huijbregts’s: Biting into evolution of language Journal of Language Evolution, 5(2):184-187.

• 2019

  • Lester, Nicholas; Bickel, Balthasar; Moran, Steven; Stoll, Sabine (2019). Speech Rates Differentiate Nouns and Verbs in Child-Surrounding and Child-Produced Speech: Evidence from Chintang In: Proceedings of the 44th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, 7 November 2019 - 10 November 2019. Cascadilla Press, 280-293.
  • Moran, Steven (2019). Phonological inventories In: Aronoff, Mark . Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. linguistics.oxfordre.com/: Oxford University Press, online.
  • Blasi, D E; Moran, Steven; Moisik, S R; Widmer, P; Dediu, D; Bickel, B (2019). Human sound systems are shaped by post-Neolithic changes in bite configuration Science, 363(6432):eaav3218.

• 2018

  • Moran, Steven; Pajović, Danica; Stoll, Sabine (2018). Cross-linguistically Small World Networks are Ubiquitous in Child-directed Speech In: Calzolari, Nicoletta . Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018). Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 4100-4105.
  • McNew, Garland; Derungs, Curdin; Moran, Steven (2018). Towards faithfully visualizing global linguistic diversity In: Calzolari, Nicoletta . Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018). Paris, France: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 805-809.

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