Press

• Die Profis (live radio interview), radioeins, January 18, 2025.

• Rrrrrrrrrrrr: Warum wir weltweit dasselbe bei diesem Laut fühlen (interview), Tagesspiegel, January 9, 2025.

• Eight Fascinating Things We Learned about Language in 2024, Scientific American, December 18, 2024.

• Ouch! Linguists Find Universal Language for Pain (interview), Scientific American, November 27, 2024.

• Why Are Letters Shaped the Way They Are? (interview), Vice, February 11, 2022.

• What Is the Shape of This Word? (podcast interview), Scientific American, February 2, 2022.

• How shapes sound and how sounds shove (interview), Chemical & Engineering News, January 12, 2022.

• What is the Bouba/Kiki effect and what does it mean for the origins of language? (interview), Euronews Culture, November 28, 2021.

• Sterke connectie tussen ‘nonsenswoorden’ en mentale beelden bestaat in alle talen en geschriften (interview), EOS Wetenschap, November 23, 2021.

• BBC Inside Science, radio interview, November 25, 2021.

• L’effet « bouba/kiki » confirmé dans plus de 20 langues (interview with a French press agency AFP), Radio Canada, November 18, 2021.

• Nonsense words make people around the world think of the same shapes (interview), Science Magazine, November 11, 2021.

• Made-Up Sounds Convey Meaning across Cultures (interview), Scientific American online, September 2021. (in print under the title: Sounds about Right, Scientific American 325, 3, 19)

• Radio interview, Imperial College Radio, August 20, 2021.

• Berliner Forscher: Sprache ist auch aus Lautmalereien entstanden (interview), Berliner Zeitung, Juni 15, 2021. (in print under the title: Am Anfang war die Lautmalerei)

• Prägten Lautmalereien die Sprachevolution? wissenschaft.de, May 17, 2021.

• No shared language? No problem! People across cultures understand clues from ‘vocal charades’ (interview), Science Magazine, May 14, 2021.

• Iconic vocalizations may have been precursor to language, ScientificInquirer, May 13, 2021.

• Sprachforschung: Universelle Geräusche sagen mehr als Worte – Interview (radio interview), Deutschlandfunk, May 12, 2021.

• Verstehen ohne Worte: Der Ursprung der Sprache (radio interview), MDR Kultur, May 12, 2021.

• Lautmalereien werden überall verstanden, science ORF.at, May 12, 2021.

• ‘Iconic’ Sounds May Be Missing Link to Language, Language Magazine, May 12, 2021.

• Interview mit unserer Doktorandin Aleksandra Ćwiek, In: Bericht über das Forschungsjahr 2019: ZAS, 2020, p. 79-80, Berlin: ZAS.

• Das FlicFlac Problem (radio interview), Radio NRW, August 23, 2019.