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Inst. for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution UZ @isle-uzh.bsky.social · 7d

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

Nick Enfield | Linguistic Anthropologist

nickenfield.org

Inst. for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution UZ @isle-uzh.bsky.social · 13d

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...

Natalia Morozova

www.isle.uzh.ch

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Anna Graff @annagraff.bsky.social · Aug 30

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.

www.science.org

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Inst. for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution UZ @isle-uzh.bsky.social · Jul 3

🎉 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

www.ema.uzh.ch

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Inst. for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution UZ @isle-uzh.bsky.social · Feb 24

📢 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

The LINGUIST List

The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

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Inst. for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution UZ @isle-uzh.bsky.social · May 14

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/...

Prof. Nicholas J. Conard Ph.D.

uni-tuebingen.de

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Pint of Science Switzerland 🇨🇭 @pintofscience.ch · May 13

🗓 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

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NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · May 14

📰 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 👇

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Inst. for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution UZ @isle-uzh.bsky.social · May 8

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/...

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Inst. for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution UZ @isle-uzh.bsky.social · May 8

📣 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

www.isle.uzh.ch

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Inst. for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution UZ @isle-uzh.bsky.social · May 2

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

Home

Evolutionary Biology throughout the lenses of Behavioral, Bioacoustics, Population Genetics, and Macroevolutionary research

jorgewichcohen.com

Inst. for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution UZ @isle-uzh.bsky.social · Apr 28

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...

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Inst. for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution UZ @isle-uzh.bsky.social · Apr 14

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...

Professor Hugues DUFFAU

PUPH

www.chu-montpellier.fr

Inst. for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution UZ @isle-uzh.bsky.social · Apr 2

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...

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Inst. for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution UZ @isle-uzh.bsky.social · Mar 31

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

NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · Mar 25

📣 #Job alert! The Technology Platform LiRI at the University of Zurich is looking for Data Science Consultant specialized in #statistics, in collaboration with the NCCR Evolving Language!

More details here: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

UZH: Data Science Consultant (specialized in statistics)

Within the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Evolving Language, which involves nearly 40 different research groups from a large variety of disciplines across Switzerland, and the Univer...

jobs.uzh.ch

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Inst. for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution UZ @isle-uzh.bsky.social · Mar 26

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...

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Inst. for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution UZ @isle-uzh.bsky.social · Mar 19

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

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Inst. for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution UZ @isle-uzh.bsky.social · Mar 12

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...

NEURO-CONNECT Seminars “Situating language learning and processing in the real-world”

Most studies of language use investigate individuals listening to spoken words, or reading text, grounded in traditional theoretical views of language as abstract and symbolic. Listening to speech or…

neurocenter-unige.ch

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Inst. for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution UZ @isle-uzh.bsky.social · Mar 6

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...

Sotaro Kita

emaylor

warwick.ac.uk

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Inst. for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution UZ @isle-uzh.bsky.social · Feb 25

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/

Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute

center.uoregon.edu

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Inst. for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution UZ @isle-uzh.bsky.social · Feb 24

You also get to experience the beauty of Zurich in summer!
#LanguageDiversity #CognitiveScience #LanguageAcquisition #Neurolinguistics #Psycholinguistics #Typology

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Inst. for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution UZ @isle-uzh.bsky.social · Feb 24

We especially invite work on:
- How cognitive & neurobiological constraints shape grammar
- How linguistic systems influence processing & learning
- Experimental & observational studies on under-researched languages
- Processing-based & learning-based explanations of language change

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Inst. for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution UZ @isle-uzh.bsky.social · Feb 24

📢 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

The LINGUIST List

The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

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Inst. for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution UZ @isle-uzh.bsky.social · Feb 19

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...

Great apes and humans perceive events in a similar way - NCCR Evolving Language

This is an agents’ world. Through a transspecies study, researchers from the University of Neuchâtel and NCCR Evolving Language have discovered that great apes could have a similar perception of event...

evolvinglanguage.ch

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Inst. for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution UZ @isle-uzh.bsky.social · Dec 8

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

Prof. Dr. Aylin Küntay

Prof. Dr. Aylin Küntay's Homepage

aylinkuntay.com

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