ISLE @ISLE_uzh
Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, Cognitive Science & Natural Science joined to unravel the Phylogeny & Ontogeny of Language @UZH_en isle.uzh.ch/en.html Zurich, Switzerland Joined October 2018-
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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: isle.uzh.ch/en/jobs/phd-st…
Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Robert Seyfarth (U.Penn), on "The Social Origins of Language and Thought", Tues 19 Nov 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-E-015
Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Paul Verdu (U. Paris Cité), on "Reconstructing jointly the complex genetic and linguistic histories of a population and it's language: the case of Kriolu-speakers from Cabo Verde", Tues 5 Nov 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-E-015
📢#Position of associate/assistant #professor in #genetics/#epigenetics of #language development at the @UNIGEnews Faculty of Medicine in conjunction with the NCCR Evolving Language. Application deadline: 25/11/2024. Full details available here : jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_portal.…
📣 Job alert! Postdoc with the NCCR Evolving Language @NCCR_Language, focusing on cross-cultural and cross-linguistic diversity in language processing, to collaborate with neuro-imaging experts. Details here: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancies/…
Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from @sabine_stoll, on "First Language Acquisition in the Light of Evolution", Tues 22 Oct 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-E-015
Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from @RossanoFederico , on "Investigating Diverse Intelligences Outside The Lab: Challenges and Opportunities", Tues 8 Oct 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-E-015
📣 PhD position to work with us on language acquisition. Applications are open!!!
This semester's first ISLE Colloquium will be from @SimonJGreenhill , on "Functionally tracing linguistic diversity, disparity, and loss", next Tues 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-E-015
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…
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
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 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…
📣 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
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…
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…
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…
📣 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…
Next week's ISLE Colloquium will be from @err_ring 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.…

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