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Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution

News list

  • barbieri_et_al_2021

    Cultural macroevolution of musical instruments in South America; new paper by Chiara Barbieri, Anna Graff et al.

  • barbieri_et_al_2021

    Seminar series: Exploring methods for analyzing bioacoustic data

  • Marmoset vocalization

    New publication by Judith Burkart

  • Contact-Tracing

    A new language research article on contact-tracing in cultural evolution has been published by Peter Ranacher et al.

    ISLE-members Robert Weibel and Balthasar Bickel are co-authors of the research article on "contact-tracing in cultural evolution: a Bayesian mixture model to detect geographic areas of language contact"

  • barbieri_et_al_2021

    Upcoming events in September 2021

  • Utae Ehara playing the mukkuri. (© Utae Ehara)

    What If Our History Was Written In Our Grammar?

    Kentaro K. Shimizu and Balthasar Bickel published together with other authors an article on "Exploring correlations in genetic and cultural variation across language families in northeast Asia"

  • IASCL Conference

    16 July at IASCL 2021: Poster presentation by ISLE director Sabine Stoll and Jekaterina Mažara

  • Child-directed speech is optimized for syntax-free semantic inference

    Child-directed speech is optimized for syntax-free semantic inference: new paper published by our ISLE-Members

    Guanghao You, Balthasar Bickel, Moritz M. Daum and Sabine Stoll have published a new paper on "Child-directed speech is optimized for syntax-free semantic inference"

  • Paul Widmer

    Congratulations to Paul Widmer

    Congratulations to our ISLE member Paul Widmer, who has been appointed full professor

  • The Power of Emotions

    The power of emotions: Judith Burkhard at SRF Einstein

    The basic human emotions are genetically inherited. They also exist in the animal kingdom. But do they also have empathy like us humans?

     

  • Carmen Saldana and Chiara Barbieri

    Language Beats: SciFilmIt Hackathons

    Carmen Saldana and Chiara Barbieri participated in the SciFilmIt Hackathons and created a movie on language in 72 hours

  • Marketing, money and technology

    Marketing, money and technology: Behind the scenes of the GPT-3

  • NCCRWomen

    NCCRWomen campaign

    NCCRWomen campaign: Nicole Tamer and Jessie Adriaense from the UZH presented their research work

  • Erdmännchen

    Meerkats have clearly defined roles: Marta Manser at SRF news

  • H.J. Glock at Sternstunde

    Hans-Johann Glock is guest at Sternstunde Philosophie and talks about: Understanding animals, but how?

  • When simpler is harder

    When simpler is harder: A study by Sebastian Sauppe

    A study by Sebastian Sauppe examines how fundamental differences in syntax shape the time course of sentence planning and how brain activity during speaking varies between simple and complex grammatical forms.

  • Marmoset monkeys are not only passive observers of third-party interactions, but that they also interpret them. (Image: Judith M. Burkart, UZH)

    Marmoset Monkeys eavesdrop on and understand conversations between other marmosets: new research paper released by J. M. Burkart et al.

    Judith Burkart, member of the ISLE, has published a research article, which gives an inside perspective on how marmoset monkeys perceive and process third-party interactions.