Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Prof. Gemma Boleda (University Pompeu Fabra), on "LLMs as a synthesis between symbolic and distributed approaches to language?" Tues 9 March 4:15pm UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 gboleda.github.io

How do we know that a sentence was a question? Researchers from the UZH and our NCCR described the complex processes happening in our brain, that allow us to understand the information contained in pitch. @fcbg-neuro.bsky.social @isle-uzh.bsky.social evolvinglanguage.ch/what-our-bra...

Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Prof. Quentin Atkinson (University of Auckland), on "“What a genealogy of all the world’s languages can teach us about the past, present and future of human cultural diversity" Tues 3 March 4:15pm UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 www.quentinatkinson.com

📰 What does fundamental mathematics bring to the study of language evolution? Sebastian Krapp, lecturer in the Mathematical Foundations of Language at @isle-uzh.bsky.social and a member of the NCCR Evolving Language, throws light on the matter. evolvinglanguage.ch/digging-into...

Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Olivier Rüst (Universität Zürich), on "Speech Patterns in Child Speech and their Origins" Tues 9 Dec 4:15pm UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 www.isle.uzh.ch/en/staff/rue...

Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Sabine Stoll and Carel van Schaik (Universität Zürich), on "The emergence of human language: the role of vocal production learning and cooperation" Tues 2 Dec 4:15pm UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 www.linguistik.uzh.ch/de/about/Dis...

Last days for early registration to #ABIM 2026 !

Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Laura Giglio (Uni. Vienna), on "Two sides of the same coin? The neural infrastructure for sentence production and comprehension" Tues 11 Nov 4:15pm UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 www.isle.uzh.ch/en/staff/gig...

Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Tecumseh Fitch (Uni. Vienna), on "Protolanguages Revisited" Tues 21 Oct 4:15pm UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 becogbio.univie.ac.at/people/scien...

Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Daphné Bavelier (Université de Genève), on "How to enhance brain plasticity and learning?" Tues 14 Oct 4:15pm UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 neurocenter-unige.ch/research-gro...

Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Nick Enfield (Uni Sydney), on "The Enchronic Envelope" Tues 7 Oct 4:15pm UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 nickenfield.org

Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Natalia Morozova (Universität Zürich), on "Cross-Linguistic Insights into the Evolutionary Convergence of Coordination Markers" Tues 30 Sept 4:15pm UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 www.isle.uzh.ch/en/staff/mor...

Our paper is out! We linked genetic and linguistic data to study how contact changes language and found consistent patterns of borrowing across contact situations @balthasarbickel.bsky.social @chiarabarbieri.bsky.social @nccrlanguage.bsky.social @isle-uzh.bsky.social doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adv7521

🎉 Registration is open for the Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing & Learning Workshop 2025! Join us in Zurich (01–02.09.) for keynotes by Sudha Arunachalam & Lars Meyer, plus other exciting talks & posters. Register: www.ema.uzh.ch/R7EPE #XPPL2025 #LanguageDiversity #CogSci #UZH

📢 Join us at the Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop 2025 (Sept 1–2, University of #Zurich) to explore how language structure, processing, and learning interact across languages! Learn more: tinyurl.com/bdf5jhnb Deadline: May 31 @nccrlanguage.bsky.social

Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Nicholas Conard (Uni Tübingen), on "How Paleolithic material culture informs our views on the symbolic evolution of our genus" Tues 20 May 4:15pm UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

🗓 Monday, May 19 – 19h 🇬🇧 📍 Café du Cerf - 4 Rue Ancien-Hôtel-de-Ville, Neuchâtel 🧠 Emotion, 🗣️ speech, 👂 listening & 🌍 culture: Once upon a talk: why we tell each other stories Program: pintofscience.ch/event/once-u... @pintsworld.bsky.social #PintCH #Pint25 @nccrlanguage.bsky.social

📰 In the current issue of Open Mind @mitpress.bsky.social, you can find two #articles from NCCR members on #hominin #cognition and perception of events, and #language #acquisition in children 👇

Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from @sebastiansauppe.bsky.social (Uni Zurich), on "Dependency structures in language processing and development" Tues 13 May 4:15pm UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 www.psychologie.uzh.ch/de/bereiche/...

📣 PhD position in Statistical Modelling of Language Evolution at our institute, to work with Prof Balthasar Bickel on modelling language diversification, see details here: www.isle.uzh.ch/en/jobs/phd-...

Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Gabriel Jorgewich-Cohen (Uni Zurich), on "What can reptiles say about the evolution of language? The importance of non-model species on broad evolutionary studies" Tues 6 May 4:15pm, via zoom (meeting-ID: 637 0876 1858, code: 319842) jorgewichcohen.com

Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Anna Graff (Uni Zurich), on "What population genetics can tell us about the impact of contact and isolation on structural linguistic diversity" Tues 29 April 4:15pm UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 www.isle.uzh.ch/en/staff/gra...

Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Hugues Duffau (Uni Hospital Montpellier), on "The neural bases of conation, language, cognition, and behavior revisited by awake brain surgery", Tues 15 April 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 www.chu-montpellier.fr/en/care-offe...

Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Johanna Schick (Uni Zurich), on "Infant-directed and infant-surrounding input in language ontogeny and phylogeny", Tues 8 April 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/staff/sch...

Data science job for someone with strong stats, who would like to help us unravel the evolution of language!

Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Redouan Bshary (Université de Neuchâtel), on "The cognition underlying partner choice decisions in marine cleaning mutualism", Tues 1 April 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 www.unine.ch/biographie/r...

Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Marina Kalashnikova (Basque Center On Cognition, Brain and Language @bcbl.bsky.social), on "Infant-Directed Speech: An Optimal Signal for Early Speech Processing", Tues 25 March 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121

Next week we have a joint ISLE-NCCR-Neuro-Connect Colloquium from @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social (UCL), on "Situating language learning and processing in the real-world" - Tues 18 March 12:15pm, Geneva: Campus Biotech, H4-02-A ... or zoom in link neurocenter-unige.ch/agenda/neuro...

Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from @sotarokita.bsky.social (University of Warwick), on "Four psychological foundations of human language", Tues 11 March 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/psyc...

ISLE professors @sabinestoll.bsky.social and @balthasarbickel.bsky.social will both be teaching at the LSA Summer Institute, to be held at U.Oregon this July. We are also honoured to have Prof Bickel named as this year's Sapir Professor! center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/

📢 Join us at the Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop 2025 (Sept 1–2, University of #Zurich) to explore how language structure, processing, and learning interact across languages! Learn more: tinyurl.com/bdf5jhnb Deadline: May 31 @nccrlanguage.bsky.social

Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Sarah Brocard (Université de Neuchâtel), on "The evolutionary origins of event cognition in hominids", Tues 25 Feb 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 evolvinglanguage.ch/great-apes-a...

Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Aylin Küntay (Koç University), on "Putting interaction back into communication of infants and preschoolers", Tues 10 Dec 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-E-015 aylinkuntay.com

Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Attila Andics (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest), on "The neural bases of speech perception in dogs", Tues 3 Dec 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-E-015 ttk.elte.hu/en/staff/att...

Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Paola Cerrito (UZH), on "The evolution of the social and neural context in which language emerged", Tues 26 Nov 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-E-015 www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/colloquiu...

📰🐒Marmoset monkeys can combine their calls into sequences, with hierarchical rules! Learn more in the new #article on our website, based on the recently published research of A. Bosshard, S. Townsend & B. Bickel @isle-uzh.bsky.social ! In EN, FR and DE. evolvinglanguage.ch/decoding-the...

Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Robert Seyfarth (U.Penn), on "The Social Origins of Language and Thought", Tues 19 Nov 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-E-015 psychology.sas.upenn.edu/people/rober...

📣 Job alert! Postdoc with the NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social , focusing on cross-cultural and cross-linguistic diversity in language processing, to collaborate with neuro-imaging experts. Details here: www.ivs.uzh.ch/en/jobs/post...

Tomorrow's ISLE Colloquium will be from Nina Kazanina, on "The know-hows of syntactic structure building in the neural tissue", Tues 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 www.ninakazanina.com

Tomorrow's ISLE Colloquium will be from Annemarie Verkerk, on "Functional vs. diachronic explanations in typology", Tues 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 www.uni-saarland.de/lehrstuhl/ve...

Tomorrow's ISLE Colloquium will be from Erik Ringen, Reinhard Furrer and Sabine Stoll, on "Do we need more participants or more recordings? Sample-size and study design for the analysis of behavioral rates", Tues 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 www.liri.uzh.ch/en/aboutus/E...

📣 JOB ALERTS! We have several PhD and Postdoc positions available in First Language Acquisition, Neurolinguistics, some including fieldwork Situated at UZH, and connected to the NCCR Evolving Language. Details here: www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/jobs.html

You can still submit to the Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop (X-PPL) 2024. Join us in on September 2nd and 3rd! #Zurich @nccrlanguage.bsky.social www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/events/x-...

Tomorrow's ISLE Colloquium will be from Steffen Hage (U.Tübigen) on "Motor control mechanisms in primate vocal behavior", Tues 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 www.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/de/das-klini...

Tomorrow's ISLE Colloquium will be from Marina Laganaro on "From lexical selection to articulation across the lifespan" U.Geneva room H8-01-D, or DM us for Zoom link. www.unige.ch/fapse/psycho...

📣 JOB ALERT! PhD position on the use and acquisition of Gurung, a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Western Nepal. Situated at UZH, and connected to the NCCR Evolving Language. Details here: www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/jobs/phd-...

Next week's ISLE Colloquium will be from Erik Ringen and Sabine Stoll (UZH) on "Do we need more participants or more recordings? Sample-size and study design for the analysis of behavioral rates" Tues 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 www.liri.uzh.ch/en/aboutus/E...

Tomorrow's ISLE Colloquium will be from Aixiu An on "Evidence for a communication-based approach to acceptability across 8 languages" 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121

Ever so proud of our team! Thanks Marion, @licataae.bsky.social, Sarah, Lina and Tatiana for pursuing science dissemination with the same love and energy you put in the actual science!

Tomorrow's ISLE Colloquium will be from Olga Filatova (Uni South Denmark) on "Cultural macro- and microevolution of killer whale dialects" 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/persons/f...