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  • New paper by Johanna Schick, Sabine Stoll and other colleagues on the evolution of infant-directed communication

  • New York Times covers new study by Wegdell, Fryns, Schick et al. on infant-directed communication

  • Workshop paper by Stefan Dedio at the Welsh Linguistics Seminar in Bangor

  • Balthasar Bickel to give keynote lecture at MEDAL conference in Tartu, Estonia

  • Publication in Nature Scientific Data: the Areal Typology of Languages of the Americas (ATLAs) database

  • New paper by Sebastian Sauppe, Martin Meyer, Chantal Oderbolz and other colleagues on the role of rhythm in perception

  • Chundra Cathcart and Balthasar Bickel publish chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution

  • Mansfield, Cathcart present at C-LESTE Workshop, Frankfurt

  • Borja Herce to present at SLE 2025 in Bordeaux

  • How isolation and contact shape structural linguistic distributions: insights from population genetics" – talk by Anna Graff and colleagues at ICHL27

  • Talk by Tai Hong and Stefan Schnell at the 13th Conference on Oceanic Linguistics at ANU

  • Borja Herce to present at the MMM 2025

  • Papers at the joint workshop "New Advances in Phylolinguistics", Leipzig 11-12 June

  • Poster presentation at LingCologne by Natalia Morozova on Language-invariant patterns of using coordination markers for joint action navigation

  • Talk by Guido Linders and Stefan Schnell at data workshop at Uni Bern

  • The Turn Takers took on the SOLA 2025

  • Spontaneous Encoding of Event Roles in Hominids: New publication in Open Mind

  • New paper by Johanna Schick and Sabine Stoll on the role of peers in first language acquisition

  • John Mansfield receives SNSF grant to study the transmission of conceptual structure in cultural areas

  • Conference paper of Jocelyn Aznar introducing Bazabaza:Lex and its functionalities for bridging the lexicography of a language to its resources

  • Ethical issues in oral-language lexicography and how Bazabaza:Lex addresses them

  • Jocelyn Aznar publishes on narrative practices in Vanuatu

  • A new explanation for a fundamental observation

  • John Mansfield invited to speak at colloquium in Freiburg

  • ISLE Institute researchers prove the effect of animacy on the agent preference through self-paced reading evidence from Basque

  • Guest lecture by Stefan Dedio on tracing language contact in parallel corpora at HU Berlin

  • UZH's semester prize awarded to Adriana Huber Azevedo for her MA Thesis 'A grammatical description of Suruwahá (Arawá)'

  • Papers and Workshops at SLE 2025

  • Paper on Building a Cross-Linguistic Typology of Sentence Planning from Case Alignment at HSP 38

  • Martin Meyer speaks on the relationship between age-related hearing loss and neurodegenerative diseases at the 17th EFAS Congress in Vienna

  • Guido Linders gives online webinar on the computational linguistic tool Lingualyzer, hosted by Minhaj University Lahore

  • ISLE institute workshop "Bridging the Gap: Unifying approaches to linguistic evolution"

  • Buchvorstellung von Stefan Schnell am 30. März 2025 in Köln

  • Bald verstummt? Infografik von Stefan Schnell in Die Zeit

  • Institute Members introduce the Gurung Language Research Program on Nepalese television

  • NCCR Winter School in Champéry with members of the department

  • Atlas der vom Aussterben bedrohten Sprachen

  • "Sprache und Gehirn" – Talks by NCCR members at the BrainFair 2025, 10-15 March 2025

  • New paper by Oderbolz, Poeppel and Meyer on functional lateralization and structural asymmetry of speech-related cortical regions

  • New paper by Sakine Çabuk-Ballı, Sabine Stoll, Paul Widmer et al. on Negation in First Language Acquisition

  • Courses by Balthasar Bickel and Sabine Stoll at the 2025 LSA Summer Institute

  • Balthasar Bickel named Sapir Professor of LSA 2025 Summer Institute