About the Authors

Sebastian Sauppe

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sebastian.sauppe@uzh.ch

Affiliations Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (ISLE), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Kamal K. Choudhary

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar, India

Nathalie Giroud

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Damián E. Blasi

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Human Evolutionary Biology Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, Linguistic Convergence Laboratory, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, Human Relations Area Files, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Elisabeth Norcliffe

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of York, York, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Shikha Bhattamishra

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar, India

Mahima Gulati

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar, India

Aitor Egurtzegi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (ISLE), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Research Hub, University of South Australia

Martin Meyer

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (ISLE), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Division of Neuropsychology, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Cognitive Psychology Unit, Psychological Institute, University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria

Balthasar Bickel

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (ISLE), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.