@isle-uzh.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Zurich https://www.isle.uzh.ch/de.html
🎉 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 👇
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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
Anna Graff portrait photo
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!
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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/
Zurich old town centre
You also get to experience the beauty of Zurich in summer!
#LanguageDiversity #CognitiveScience #LanguageAcquisition #Neurolinguistics #Psycholinguistics #Typology
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
📢 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...
