📣 job alert! Postdoc with the NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social, conducting cross-cultural research on language processing and its relationship with other aspects of cognition, with a specific focus on syntax and event cognition. Details here: www.isle.uzh.ch/en/jobs/post...

Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Basil Preisig (University of Zurich), on "The interacting language network: From neural mechanisms to clinical interventions" Tues 26 May 4:15pm UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 www.isle.uzh.ch/en/staff/pre...

Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Asli Özyürek (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics), on "Adaptive and Evolving Multimodal Language in Humans and Machines" Tues 12 May 4:15pm UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121

Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Stephen Levinson (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics), on "Mind tools, language and the evolutionary roots of AI" Tues 5 May 4:15pm UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121

10/ This work was conducted at the Linguistic Research Infrastructure @isle-uzh.bsky.social and was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation @snsf.ch. data.snf.ch/grants/grant...

Check out our new paper! (1/5) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @err-ring.bsky.social @kkshimizu1.bsky.social @markstoneking.bsky.social @balthasarbickel.bsky.social @chiarabarbieri.bsky.social @isle-uzh.bsky.social @nccrlanguage.bsky.social

An inverse correlation between structural linguistic and human genetic diversity | PNAS

Linguistic structures show uneven global distributions, but it remains unknown to what extent such distributions are driven by human population his...

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Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Sandra da Silva Oliveira (University of Zurich), on "When populations meet: genetic perspectives on language replacement and persistence" Tues 28 April 4:15pm UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 www.ieu.uzh.ch/en/staff/mem...

Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Dr Remo Nitschke (University of Zurich), on "A Comparative Study of Primate Communication Systems" Tues 14 April 4:15pm UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 www.isle.uzh.ch/en/staff/nit...

Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Prof. Valérie Dufour (University of Strasbourg), on "The social complexity hypothesis for communicative complexity in corvids" Tues 31 March 4:15pm UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 ethologiecognitiveetsociale.wordpress.com/valerie-dufo...

Valérie Dufour

valerie.dufour(at)cnrs.fr Tel : +33.3.88.10.74.60 Personnal website Link to Research gate Position Scientist, permanent position at the Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique Profile 2004-2…

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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...

What our brain hears beyond words - NCCR Evolving Language

How do we know that a sentence was said by a woman? How do we know that what she told us was a question? Researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR Evolving Language described the complex ...

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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...

Digging into the foundations of science with Sebastian Krapp - NCCR Evolving Language

Sebastian Krapp likes to dig deep into the foundations of science. Now a newly appointed lecturer in the Mathematical Foundations of Language at the University of Zurich, and a member of the NCCR Evol...

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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 !

Alpine Brain Imaging Meeting@abim-ch.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Get ready for the biggest #ABIM yet! 🥳 We're celebrating our 20th anniversary with a special edition you won't want to miss. 🗓️ Registration & abstract submission: www.unige.ch/ABIM/partici... 💰Early bird fee ends November 9th! #ABIM2026 #neuroimaging

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...

Daphne Bavelier

A distinctive feature of the human brain is its capacity to learn and adapt to an ever-changing environment. What are the factors that promote such learning and brain plasticity? Are some parts of our...

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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

Patterns of genetic admixture reveal similar rates of borrowing across diverse scenarios of language contact

Human population contact leads to consistently similar rates of linguistic borrowing, but effects vary across linguistic features.

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🎉 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

Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL 2025)

September 1, 8:30 AM - September 2, 6:00 PM | University of Zurich, AFL building

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📢 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

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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