📣 Save the date 🗓️ to present your exciting statistical learning research at the 6th Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning Conference June 10-12 2026 in San Sebastián 🇪🇸 Keynotes by @jennysaffran.bsky.social @noranewcombe.bsky.social @pyoudeyer.bsky.social More info to follow #IASL26
Sabine Stoll
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Director of the Institute of the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution @UZH Language acquisition and its role in language evolution
Exciting new opening @nccrlanguage.bsky.social with the option of permanent extension. If you work in cutting-edge stats and are interested in joining a highly inter-disciplinary, vibrant community, don't hesitate to apply at tinyurl.com/3fxwjk8e
UZH: Statistician
Within the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Evolving Language and its 46 different research groups from a large variety of disciplines across Switzerland, and the University of Zurich ...
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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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📣 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-...
PhD Position in the Statistical Modeling of Linguistic Evolution
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New paper by our @nccrlanguage.bsky.social team w @franziswegdell.bsky.social, @carolinefryns.bsky.social , J Schick , @zuberbuehler.bsky.social, C v Schaik, S Townsend, and myself. Child-directed communication is a driver of language evolution. shorturl.at/eAfjW
How do children learn to negate with diverse linguistic and cultural background? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The road to negation: A comparative study of five typologically and culturally diverse languages - Sakine Çabuk-Ballı, Aylin C Küntay, Paul Widmer, Sabine Stoll, 2025
The acquisition of negation is a key milestone in early language development that enables children to express rejection, non-existence, and deny propositions. I...
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New paper on the role of peers in language acquisition: direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
Children Learn Best From Their Peers: The Crucial Role of Input From Other Children in Language Development
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