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...
picture of Olivier Rüst, smiling cheerfully.
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
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!
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/
