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Department of Comparative Language Science

2023

News list

  • Paper on split head marking in bivalent predicates by Erika Just

  • New Publication by Sabine Stoll

  • Interview with "What the Duck?!" podcast about chimpanzee drumming

  • GRC Short Grant awarded to Jessica K. Ivani

  • Out of Asia project publication on multi-variate coding for possession

  • Sabine Stoll on child language acquisition at Volkshochschule Zürich

  • Launching a new SNSF research project on deficient spoken language comprehension in chronic subjective tinnitus

  • New book chapter by Jessica K. Ivani and Balthasar Bickel on the design principles of syntactic databases

  • New paper published by IVS members Borja Herce and Chundra Cathcart

  • Out of Asia project publication on Morphological and Genetic Analysis of Roth's 'Human Fossil' from Baradero, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

  • Inauguration of Chana Research Station in Pucallpa, Peru

  • Guest lecture by Caroline Andrews on "Optionality and Commitment: Sentence Planning in an Ergative Language"

  • The Department of Comparative Language Science (UZH) hosted the Workshop «Topics in Vietnamese Linguistics»

  • Elisabeth Stark, Simone Pfenninger und Martin Meyer: «Sprachenlernen im Erwachsenenalter» (Senior:innen-Universität Zürich)

  • New paper on the Agent Preference and Surprisal published by IVS members Huber, Sauppe, Isasi-Isasmendi and Bickel

  • New paper on longitudinal computer-based naturalistic speechtraining published

  • Jing, Bickel and Widmer provide corpus-based evidence that word order evolves at similar rates in main and subordinate clauses

  • Department is awarded UZH Global Strategy grant with Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  • Talk on "Linguistic diversity in North-East India" by Jessica K. Ivani & Taras Zakharko at HLS26

  • Talk on "Reciprocals in Suansu: a first assessment" by Grégoire Hansen and Jessica K. Ivani at HLS26

  • Talk on “Anti-iconic” feminine plurals in northern Gallo-Italic varieties by Jessica K Ivani at CIDSM17

  • Presentation at the 6th International Conference on Kurdish Linguistics

  • Kellen Parker Van Dam gives invited talk at Nagaland University

  • Outreach: Workshop on Future-Ready Dictionary Development

  • Presentation at the 26th Himalayan Languages Symposium

  • Borja Herce and Francesco Gardani present at the CIDSM 17

  • Borja Herce presents the history of wa-/wu and mba-/mbu-prefixal allomorphy in Central Pame at ISMO 2023, Nancy

  • Invited talk by Carmen Saldana at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz

  • Talk by Carmen Saldana at CogSci 2023

  • Invited talk by Carmen Saldana at the Special Interest Group on Computational Morphology and Phonology within ACL 2023

  • Presentations at ICHL 26, Heidelberg

  • Presentations at AMLAP 2023

  • Presentations at SLE 2023, Athens

  • Eva Huber presents initial findings on child-directed speech in Batangas Tagalog at the 15th Philippine Linguistic Congress in Metro Manila

  • Presentations at the International Primatological Society (IPS), Kuching, Malaysia, 19-25 August, 2023

  • Ringvorlesung «Das Erste Wort»

  • Poster presentation by Catalina Torres "Stop voicing in Drehu: Effects of place of articulation, speaker sex, and language attitudes" at ICPhS 2023

  • Poster presentation by Catalina Torres and Borja Herce "Measuring variation in Central Pame vowels" at ICPhS 2023

  • Paper by Olivier Rüst on development of linguistic patterns in child and child directed speech

  • Erika Just publishes chapter on reflexive constructions in Luganda

  • John Mansfield appointed Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Anthropological Linguistics

  • Handbook chapter on experimental research in cross-linguistic psycholinguistics

  • Talk by Stefan Schnell at the workshop on "Efficiency in grammar" in Freiburg

  • PhD defence by Elia Ackermann

  • Paper out on neuroanatomical changes in hippocampal structures in the tinnitus brain

  • New paper in iScience by Stuart K Watson, Joseph Mine & Simon Townsend exploring combinatorial processing in wild birds

  • Talk on "Reference production and grammatical relations" by Stefan Schnell and colleagues at GRelSpoC 2023

  • Piera Filippi and Stuart Watson receive silver SAGW award

  • Talk on "Verbal complexity in Dene Suline across age bands" by Dagmar Jung and colleagues at CLA 2023

  • Course taught by Stefan Schnell on the "Languages of the world" at VHS Zürich

  • Talk at conference on Naturally occurring data in and beyond linguistic typology, Bologna

  • Invited plenary by Balthasar Bickel on “The Agent Preference in Comprehension and Production” at the XVI International Symposium of Psycholinguistics

  • Workshop talk by Balthasar Bickel on “Approaching the language faculty with phylogenetic methods”

  • Book chapter "Chaha group" co-authored by Sascha Völlmin in new publication "The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages"

  • Chiara Barbieri keynote talk at Haploid Markers

  • David Inman will give a talk at University of Turku on linguistic contact and how language data can be used to uncover population contact events

  • UZH Mentoring Award 2023 for Simon Townsend

  • New paper by Borja Herce assesses the applicability of morphomic templates in Romance to novel patterns of stem alternation

  • New open-access book by Borja Herce looks at the properties of morphomes cross-linguistically

  • Chiara Barbieri co-authors paper on the multifaceted genomic history of Ashaninka

  • New paper of the ENL group about neuroanatomical correlates of supra-threshold auditory tasks in older individuals with hearing impairment

  • Nature is calling: Will your dog answer?

  • Paper by Erika Just and Judith Voß explores variable placement of bound person marking in Gutob (Austroasiatic)

  • Presentation by Martin Meyer at Seniorenuni Schaffhausen: «Wie der Mensch zur Sprache kam»

  • Presentation by Martin Meyer at Tinnitus Research Academy: «Take back control - The pros and cons of EEG-based neurofeedback as a treatment for chronic subjective tinnitus.»