Publications

Seifart, Frank; Strunk, Jan; Danielsen, Swintha; Hartmann, Iren; Pakendorf, Brigitte; Wichmann, Søren; Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena; Himmelmann, Nikolaus P; Bickel, Balthasar (2021). The extent and degree of utterance-final word lengthening in spontaneous speech from 10 languages. Linguistics Vanguard, 7(1):1-14. [ZORA]

Strunk, Jan; Seifart, Frank; Danielsen, Swintha; Hartmann, Irene; Pakendorf, Brigitte; Wichmann, Søren; Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena; Bickel, Balthasar (2020). Determinants of phonetic word duration in ten language documentation corpora: Word frequency, complexity, position, and part of speech. Language Documentation & Conservation, 14:423-461. [ZORA]

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, 280-293. [ZORA]

Seifart, Frank; Strunk, Jan; Danielsen, Swintha; Hartmann, Iren; Pakendorf, Brigitte; Wichmann, Søren; Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena; de Jong, Nivja H; Bickel, Balthasar (2018). Nouns slow down speech across structurally and culturally diverse languages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, (201800708):1-6. [ZORA]

Hardegger, Selma; Mazara, Jekaterina; Küntay, Aylin C.; Hellwig, Birgit; Pfeiler, Barbara; Stoll, Sabine (2024). Verbs or Nouns? A cross-linguistic study examining the effect of morphological complexity and input on children’s early lexical development. In: Samuelson, L. K.; Frank, S. L.; Toneva, M.; Mackey, A.; Hazeltine, E. (eds.). Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2354–2361. [ZORA]

Loukatou, Georgia; Stoll, Sabine; Blasi, Damian; Cristia, Alejandrina (2022). Does morphological complexity affect word segmentation? Evidence from computational modeling. Cognition, 220, 104960. [ZORA]

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. [ZORA]

Herce, Borja (2021). Stem alternations in Kiranti and their implications for the morphology-phonology interface. Journal of Linguistics, 57, 321–363. [ZORA]

Widmer, Manuel; Jenny, Mathias; Behr, Wolfgang; Bickel, Balthasar (2021). Morphological structure can escape reduction effects from mass admixture of second language speakers. Studies in Language, 45:707–752. [ZORA]

Mansfield, John; Stoll, Sabine; Bickel, Balthasar (2020). Category clustering: A probabilistic bias in the morphology of verbal agreement marking. Language. Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, 96(2):255-293. [ZORA]

Widmer, Manuel; Jenny, Mathias; Behr, Wolfgang; Bickel, Balthasar (2020). Morphological structure can escape reduction effects from mass admixture of second language speakers. Studies in Language:Epub ahead of print. [ZORA]

Stoll, Sabine; Mazara, Jekatarina; Bickel, Balthasar (2017). The acquisition of polysynthetic verb forms in Chintang. In: Fortescue, Michael D; Mithun, Marianne; Evans, Nicholas. The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 495 - 514. [ZORA]

Bickel, Balthasar; Zúñiga, Fernando (2017). The ‘word’ in polysynthetic languages: phonological and syntactic challenges. In: Fortescue, Michael D.; Mithun, Marianne; Evans, Nicholas. The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 158 - 185. [ZORA]

Bickel, Balthasar; Gaenszle, Martin (2015). First person objects, antipassives, and the political history of the Southern Kirant. Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, 2(1):63-86. [ZORA]

Samardžić, Tanja; Schikowski, Robert; Stoll, Sabine (2015). Automatic interlinear glossing as two-level sequence classification. In: 9th SIGHUM Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities, Beijing, China, 30 Juli 2015 - 30 Juli 2015, 68-72. [ZORA]

Stoll, Sabine; Bickel, Balthasar; Lieven, Elena; Banjade, Goma; Bhatta, Toya Nath; Gaenszle, Martin; Paudyal, Netra P; Pettigrew, Judith; Rai, Ichchha Purna; Rai, Manoj; Rai, Novel Kishore (2012). Nouns and verbs in Chintang: children's usage and surrounding adult speech. Journal of Child Language, 39(2):284 - 321. [ZORA]

Vorberg, A., B. Bickel, M. Gaenszle, G. Müller, M. Rai, G. Banjade, N. P. Paudyal, T. N. Bhatta, & I. P. Rai (2009). An optimality-theoretic analysis of binomials in Chintang ritual language. Ms. University of Leipzig. [PDF (PDF, 100 KB)]

Bickel, Balthasar; Banjade, Goma; Gaenszle, Martin; Lieven, Elena; Paudyal, Netra P; Rai, Ichchha Purna; Rai, Manoj; Rai, Novel Kishore; Stoll, Sabine (2007). Free prefix ordering in Chintang. Language, 83(1):43-73. [ZORA]

Rai, Novel Kishore; Bickel, Balthasar; Gaenszle, Martin; Lieven, Elena; Paudyal, Netra P; Rai, Ichchha Purna; Rai, Manoj; Stoll, Sabine (2005). Triplication and ideophones in Chintang. In: Yadava, Yogendra P. Current issues in Nepalese linguistics. Kirtipur: Linguistic Society of Nepal, 205-209. [ZORA]

Çabuk-Ballı, Sakine; Küntay, Aylin C.; Widmer, Paul; Stoll, Sabine (2025). The road to negation: A comparative study of five typologically and culturally diverse languages. First Language, 45, 596–621. [ZORA]

Çabuk-Ballı, Sakine; Mazara, Jekaterina; Küntay, Aylin C.; Hellwig, Birgit; Pfeiler, Barbara B.; Widmer, Paul; Stoll, Sabine (2025). Negation in first language acquisition: Universal or language-specific? Cognitive Science, 49, e70044. [ZORA]

Rüst, Olivier; Baroni, Marco; Stoll, Sabine (2023). Getting Creative: A Language Modeling Approach to Predicting Child Utterances in 12 Typologically Diverse Languages. In: Gappmayr, Paris; Kellogg, Jackson (eds.). Proceedings of the 47th annnual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 672–685. [ZORA]

Mazara, Jekaterina; Lieven, Elena; Stoll, Sabine (2022). How Do Children Combine Pointing and Language in the Earliest Stages of Development? A Case Study of Russian and Chintang. In: Culbertson, J.; Perfors, A.; Rabagliati, H.; Ramenzoni, V. (eds.). Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 3696–3702. [ZORA]

Rüst, Olivier; Baroni, Marco; Stoll, Sabine (2022). The acquisition of case systems in typologically diverse languages: Children gradually generalize grammatical rules. In: Gong, Ying; Kpogo, Felix (eds.) Proceedings of the 46th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 672–685. Cascadilla Press. [ZORA]

Mazara, Jekaterina; Stoll, Sabine (2021). Frequency vs. Salience in First Language Acquisition: The Acquisition of Aspect Marking in Chintang. In: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43(43). 840–846. [ZORA]

Schikowski, Robert; Bickel, Balthasar; Paudyal, Netra P (2015). Flexible valency in Chintang. In: Malchukov, Andrej; Comrie, Bernard. Valency Classes in the World's Languages. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter, 669-708. [ZORA]

Stoll, Sabine; Zakharko, Taras; Moran, Steven; Schikowski, Robert; Bickel, Balthasar (2015). Syntactic mixing across generations in an environment of community-wide bilingualism. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:82. [ZORA]

Schikowski, Robert; Bickel, Balthasar; Paudyal, Netra P (2013). Chintang Valency Patterns. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. [ZORA]

Stoll, Sabine; Bickel, Balthasar (2013). The acquisition of ergative case in Chintang. In: Bavin, Edith, Stoll, Sabine. The acquisition of ergativity. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 183-207. [ZORA]

Stoll, Sabine; Bickel, Balthasar (2012). How to measure frequency? Different ways of counting ergatives in Chintang (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal) and their implications. In: Seifart, Frank; Haig, Geoffrey L J; Himmelmann, Nikolaus P; Jung, Dagmar; Margetts, Anna; Trilsbeek, Paul; Wittenburg, Peter (eds.). Potentials of language documentation: methods, analyses, utilization. Manoa: University of Hawai‘i Press, 84-90. [ZORA]

Bickel, Balthasar; Rai, Manoj; Paudyal, Netra P; Banjade, Goma; Bhatta, Toya Nath; Gaenszle, Martin; Lieven, Elena; Rai, Ichchha Purna; Rai, Novel Kishore; Stoll, Sabine (2010). The syntax of three-argument verbs in Chintang and Belhare (Southeastern Kiranti). In: Malchukov, Andrej; Haspelmath, Martin; Comrie, Bernard (eds.). Studies in ditransitive constructions: a comparative handbook. Berlin: De Gruyter, 382-408. [ZORA]

Paudyal, Netra P; Bickel, Balthasar; Schikowski, Robert; Stoll, Sabine; Lieven, Elena; Banjade, Goma; Rai, Ichchha Purna; Rai, Manoj; Gaenszle, Martin; Rai, Novel Kishore; Bhatta, Toya Nath (2010). Non-finite adverbial subordination in Chintang. Nepalese Linguistics, 25:121-132. [ZORA]

Bickel, Balthasar (2011). Multivariate typology and field linguistics: a case study on detransitivization in Kiranti (Sino-Tibetan). In: Austin, Peter K; Bond, Oliver; Nathan, David; Marten, Lutz (eds.). Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 3. London: SOAS, 3-13. [ZORA]

Bickel, B. (2008). Grammatical relations in Chintang. Work In Progress Presentation, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, October 7, 2008. [PDF (PDF, 127 KB)]

Hotz, Rolf; Schikowski, Robert; Purna, Ichchha; Rai, Anita; Kumari, Chandra; Rai, Dayaram; Bahadur, Durga; Kumari, Durga; Rai, Ganesh; Kumari, Janak; Kumari, Lash; Rai, Manoj; Kumar, Rabindra; Maya, Rikhi; Maya, Shanti; Banjade, Goma; Bhatta, Toya Nath; Jung, Dagmar; Paudyal, Netra Prasad; Pettigrew, Judith; Sauppe, Sebastian; Zakharko, Taras; Gaenszle, Martin; Kishor, Novel; Lieven, Elena; Stoll, Sabine; Bickel, Balthasar. 2026. Chintang dictionary. Dictionaria 17. 1-10822 (Available online at https://dictionaria.clld.org/contributions/chintang, Accessed on 2026-07-03.)

Bender, Emily M; Schikowski, Robert; Bickel, Balthasar (2012). Deriving a lexicon for a precision grammar from language documentation resources: a case study of Chintang. In: Kay, M; Boitet, C. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). Mumbai: Association for Computational Linguistics, 247-262. [ZORA]

राई, नोवल किशोर; राई, मनोज; पौड्याल, नेत्र प्रसाद; Schikowski, Robert; Bickel, Balthasar; Stoll, Sabine; Gaenszle, Martin; बन्जादे, गोमा; राई, इच्छा पूर्णा; भट्ट, तोया नाथ; Sauppe, Sebastian; राई, रिखी माया; राई, जनक कुमारी; राई, लास कुमारी; राई, दुर्ग बहादुर; राई, गणेश; राई, दयाराम; राई, दुर्ग कुमारी; राई, अनिता; राई, चन्द्र कुमारी; राई, शन्ति माया; राई, रविन्द्र कुमार; Pettygrew, Judith; Dirksmeyer, Tyko (2011). छिन्ताङ-नेपाली-अँग्रेजी शब्दकोश तथा व्याकरण. Kathmandu: MPI. [ZORA]

Rai, N. K., M. Rai, N. P. Paudyal, R. Schikowski, B. Bickel, S. Stoll, M. Gaenszle, J. Pettigrew, T. Dirksmeyer, G. Banjade, I. P. Rai, T. N. Bhatta, S. Sauppe, R. M. Rai, J. K. Rai, L. K. Rai, D. B. Rai, G. Rai, D. Rai, A. Rai, C. K. Rai, S. M. Rai, & R. K. Rai, 2011. Chintaṅ śabdakoś tatha vyakaran. [Chintang dictionary and grammar]. Kathmandu: Chintang Language Research Programme. [PDF (PDF, 990 KB)]