2025
News list
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Balthasar Bickel gives invited talk at the Geoscience Diversity & Equality Switzerland (GEODES)
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Natalia Morozova and Dagmar Jung conduct Workshop on Experimental Psycholinguistic Methods for Underdescribed Languages in Peru
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New paper by Natalia Morozova, Sabine Stoll, and Adrian Bangerter on the cross-linguistic convergence of coordination markers in joint tasks
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Talk by Stefan Schnell and Guido Linders at the 10th Syntax of the World's Languages conference
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Talk on "Bactrian and Sogdian Influence Spheres" by Julian Kreidl at Deutscher Orientalistentag
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New paper by Anna Graff, Daphné Bavelier, Kentaro Shimizu, Chiara Barbieri, Balthasar Bickel and colleagues, combining linguistic with genetic data
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Ebert, Cathcart, Bickel and Widmer publish on a new corpus-based approach for studying word order change and reconstruction with Bayesion computational phylogenetic methods
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Word-prosodic typology of Central Pame: Acoustic evidence for stress and tone by Catalina Torres and Borja Herce
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Catalina Torres gave the talk "Separate in time but united by structure: The case of cross-serial and nested dependencies" at SLE 2025
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Stefan Schnell und der Atlas der vom Aussterben bedrohten Sprachen im Tages-Anzeiger
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New paper by Joseph Mine, Laura Dees, Sabine Stoll, Simon Townsend and colleagues on maternal influence on vocal–visual communicative behavior
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New paper by Borja Herce on the origin and progress of a curious case of inflectional free variation in the Mexican language Pame
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New paper on the acquisition of negation in typologically maximally diverse languages by Cabuk-Ballı, Küntay, Widmer & Stoll
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Natalia Morozova gave a talk on language-invariant developmental trajectories of joint action coordination in children at JAM X
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Publication of: "Direct speech, silent pauses, speech verbs, and basic word order: a comparative corpus study of 12 languages", with Jocelyn Aznar and Frank Seifart
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New paper by Johanna Schick, Sabine Stoll and other colleagues on the evolution of infant-directed communication
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New York Times covers new study by Wegdell, Fryns, Schick et al. on infant-directed communication
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Publication in Nature Scientific Data: the Areal Typology of Languages of the Americas (ATLAs) database
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New paper by Sebastian Sauppe, Martin Meyer, Chantal Oderbolz and other colleagues on the role of rhythm in perception
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Chundra Cathcart and Balthasar Bickel publish chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution
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How isolation and contact shape structural linguistic distributions: insights from population genetics" – talk by Anna Graff and colleagues at ICHL27
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Talk by Tai Hong and Stefan Schnell at the 13th Conference on Oceanic Linguistics at ANU
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Papers at the joint workshop "New Advances in Phylolinguistics", Leipzig 11-12 June
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Poster presentation at LingCologne by Natalia Morozova on Language-invariant patterns of using coordination markers for joint action navigation
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New paper by Johanna Schick and Sabine Stoll on the role of peers in first language acquisition
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John Mansfield receives SNSF grant to study the transmission of conceptual structure in cultural areas
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Conference paper of Jocelyn Aznar introducing Bazabaza:Lex and its functionalities for bridging the lexicography of a language to its resources
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ISLE Institute researchers prove the effect of animacy on the agent preference through self-paced reading evidence from Basque
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Guest lecture by Stefan Dedio on tracing language contact in parallel corpora at HU Berlin
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UZH's semester prize awarded to Adriana Huber Azevedo for her MA Thesis 'A grammatical description of Suruwahá (Arawá)'
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Paper on Building a Cross-Linguistic Typology of Sentence Planning from Case Alignment at HSP 38
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Martin Meyer speaks on the relationship between age-related hearing loss and neurodegenerative diseases at the 17th EFAS Congress in Vienna
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Guido Linders gives online webinar on the computational linguistic tool Lingualyzer, hosted by Minhaj University Lahore
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ISLE institute workshop "Bridging the Gap: Unifying approaches to linguistic evolution"
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Institute Members introduce the Gurung Language Research Program on Nepalese television
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"Sprache und Gehirn" – Talks by NCCR members at the BrainFair 2025, 10-15 March 2025
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New paper by Oderbolz, Poeppel and Meyer on functional lateralization and structural asymmetry of speech-related cortical regions
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New paper by Sakine Çabuk-Ballı, Sabine Stoll, Paul Widmer et al. on Negation in First Language Acquisition
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