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Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution

News list

  • NCCR "Evolving Language" approved

    The NCCR "Evolving Language" has been approved for funding by the Swiss Parliament. The research network will be directed by Balthasar Bickel. More information can be found here.

  • Chimpanzee with baby on a tree branch

    Review article by Klaus Zuberbühler

    Great apes might be able to analyze causality in the events they observe, a capacity that might have been the basis for the evolution of human language syntax.

  • Marmoset on a tree.

    New publication by Judith Burkart in PLOS ONE

    ISLE member Judith Burkart just published a new open-access study in PLOS ONE.

  • The chestnut-crowned babbler examined in the study lives in the Australian outback. (Image: Niall Stopford)

    New publication by Sabrina Engesser and Simon Townsend

    Sabrina Engesser and Simon Townsend, both members of ISLE and IVS, published an article in PNAS that sheds light on the building blocks of bird vocalisations.