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Inst. for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution UZ
@isle-uzh.bsky.social
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Interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Zurich
https://www.isle.uzh.ch/de.html
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Last days for early registration to #ABIM 2026 !
abim-ch.bsky.social Alpine Brain Imaging Meeting @abim-ch.bsky.social · Oct 14
Get ready for the biggest #ABIM yet! 🥳 We're celebrating our 20th anniversary with a special edition you won't want to miss.
🗓️ Registration & abstract submission: www.unige.ch/ABIM/partici...
💰Early bird fee ends November 9th!
#ABIM2026 #neuroimaging
The names of the speakers: Melanie Boly Ray Dolan Davide Folloni Laura Gwilliams Charles Hillman Hilleke Hulshoff Pol Jean-Rémi King Daniel Margulies Lucia Melloni
November 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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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...
November 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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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
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Tecumseh Fitch
Tecumseh Fitch
becogbio.univie.ac.at
October 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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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
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Daphne Bavelier
A distinctive feature of the human brain is its capacity to learn and adapt to an ever-changing environment. What are the factors that promote such learning and brain plasticity? Are some parts of our...
neurocenter-unige.ch
October 12, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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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
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Nick Enfield | Linguistic Anthropologist
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October 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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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...
Natalia Morozova
www.isle.uzh.ch
September 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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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
Patterns of genetic admixture reveal similar rates of borrowing across diverse scenarios of language contact
Human population contact leads to consistently similar rates of linguistic borrowing, but effects vary across linguistic features.
www.science.org
August 30, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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🎉 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
Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL 2025)
September 1, 8:30 AM - September 2, 6:00 PM | University of Zurich, AFL building
www.ema.uzh.ch
July 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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📢 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
The LINGUIST List
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
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February 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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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/...
Prof. Nicholas J. Conard Ph.D.
uni-tuebingen.de
May 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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🗓 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
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May 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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📰 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 👇
May 14, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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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/...
May 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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📣 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-...
PhD Position in the Statistical Modeling of Linguistic Evolution
www.isle.uzh.ch
May 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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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
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Evolutionary Biology throughout the lenses of Behavioral, Bioacoustics, Population Genetics, and Macroevolutionary research
jorgewichcohen.com
May 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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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...
Anna Graff portrait photo
April 28, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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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...
Professor Hugues DUFFAU
PUPH
www.chu-montpellier.fr
April 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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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...
April 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Data science job for someone with strong stats, who would like to help us unravel the evolution of language!
March 31, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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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...
March 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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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
March 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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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...
NEURO-CONNECT Seminars “Situating language learning and processing in the real-world”
Most studies of language use investigate individuals listening to spoken words, or reading text, grounded in traditional theoretical views of language as abstract and symbolic. Listening to speech or…
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March 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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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...
Sotaro Kita
emaylor
warwick.ac.uk
March 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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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/
Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute
Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute
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February 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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📢 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
The LINGUIST List
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
tinyurl.com
February 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM