This week in our language evolution public lecture series: Language and liberation: How can changing our language change the world? Sally Haslanger, Department of Lingustics and Philosophy, MIT Thursday 14.12 (18:15-19:45 Uhr) UZH Zentrum KO2-F-180

For our first ISLE Colloquium this year, we welcome Erich Round, speaking on "Language's infection point: From cognitive spark to astounding richness" Tomorrow 4:15pm at UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 surrey.ac.uk/people/erich-r…

📣Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop (X-PPL) 2024 Do you work on language processing and learning from a cross-linguistic perspective? Join us in #Zurich Department of Comparative Language Science @NCCR_language on September 2nd and 3rd. More here: comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/events/x-pp…

Our next ISLE colloquium speaker will be Usha Goswami (U. Cambridge), on "Dyslexia, Rhythm, Language and the Developing Brain" Tues 12:15pm via zoom, see link below: comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/colloquium.…

Our next colloquium speaker will be Klaus Oberauer, on "The role of working memory for language". Tues 12 March, 4:15pm at UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 psychologie.uzh.ch/de/bereiche/ne…

Tomorrow's ISLE Colloquium will be from Olga Filatova (Uni South Denmark) on "Cultural macro- and microevolution of killer whale dialects" 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/persons/fil…

Tomorrow's ISLE Colloquium will be from Aixiu An Aixiu An on "Evidence for a communication-based approach to acceptability across 8 languages" 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121

Tomorrow's ISLE Colloquium will be from Carel ten Cate on "The linguistic abilities of birds – a window on language evolution" 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmember…

Next week's ISLE Colloquium will be from Erik J. Ringen and Sabine Stoll (UZH) on "Do we need more participants or more recordings? Sample-size and study design for the analysis of behavioral rates" Tues 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/colloquium.…

📣 JOB ALERT! PhD position on the use and acquisition of Gurung, a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Western Nepal. Situated at UZH, and connected to the NCCR Evolving Language. Details here: comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/jobs/phd-gu…

Tomorrow's ISLE Colloquium will be from Marina Laganaro on "From lexical selection to articulation across the lifespan" U.Geneva room H8-01-D, or DM us for Zoom link. unige.ch/fapse/psycholi…

Tomorrow's ISLE Colloquium will be from Steffen Hage (U.Tübigen) on "Motor control mechanisms in primate vocal behavior", Tues 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/de/das-kliniku…

You can still submit to the Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop (X-PPL) 2024. Join us in on September 2nd and 3rd! #Zurich @NCCR_language comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/events/x-pp…

📣 JOB ALERTS! We have several PhD and Postdoc positions available in First Language Acquisition, Neurolinguistics, some including fieldwork Situated at UZH, and connected to the NCCR Evolving Language. Details here: comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/jobs.html

Tomorrow's ISLE Colloquium will be from Erik Ringen, Reinhard Furrer and Sabine Stoll, on "Do we need more participants or more recordings? Sample-size and study design for the analysis of behavioral rates", Tues 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 liri.uzh.ch/en/aboutus/Eri…

Tomorrow's ISLE Colloquium will be from Annemarie Verkerk, on "Functional vs. diachronic explanations in typology", Tues 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 uni-saarland.de/lehrstuhl/verk…

Tomorrow's ISLE Colloquium will be from Nina Kazanina, on "The know-hows of syntactic structure building in the neural tissue", Tues 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 ninakazanina.com

X-PPL 2024 has successfully kicked off, and you can still join online. See the programme and registration link here: comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/events/x-pp…

This semester's first ISLE Colloquium will be from Simon J Greenhill , on "Functionally tracing linguistic diversity, disparity, and loss", next Tues 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-E-015

📣 PhD position to work with us on language acquisition. Applications are open!!!