2026
News list
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New phylogenetic study by Hong, Witzlack-Makarevich and Bickel confirms the agent preference in language change
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Talk at ALT by Borja Herce presenting work on "Quantitative (micro)typology from dialectal atlases"
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Talk by Borja Herce at IMM22 on 'Predicting person-number syncretism in Romance: Source vs functional constraints'
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Multiple ISLE members to present at Quantitative Cross-Linguistic Explorations of Space, Time, and Evolution (QC-LESTE) workshop, Paris, 10-11 June
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Borja Herce and Clayton Marr publish in Language about 'The effects of sound change vs. analogy on paradigm complexity'
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Exploring Amazonian Cognitive Diversity at Chana Research Station: Article by Bickel, Morozova, Schick, Stoll
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Talk on HearHere - a Participatory Noise Mapping approach by Zino Wellauer at the International Max Planck Research School (LIFE) in Virginia
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Talk at SLE by Miri Mertner, presenting joint work with John Mansfield on the areal semantics of Wallacea
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Paper by Huber, Bickel & Stoll showing that child-directed speech facilitates semantic role learning
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Short talk by Jannik Kochert at Math in May 2026: Showcasing syntactic trees as linguistically motivated mathematical structure
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Talk on grammaticalization pathways from clefts in Cushitic by Håvard Weiberg-Johansen and colleagues at "New Approaches to Egyptian Grammar"
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Isolated human groups speak more diversified languages: paper in PNAS by Graff et al.
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Balthasar Bickel et al. publish clarifications and responses to comments on their paper "Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution"
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Poster Presentation by Cheryl Gilford at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2026 Conference in Vancouver
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New book chapter by Chantal Oderbolz and Martin Meyer about evolutionary origins of prosody
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Evolutionary Neuroscience of Language Group has a new paper out by Chantal Oderbolz et al.: First Swiss MEG study on language processing.
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Diving into the World of Languages: UZH Magazine featuring the MSc Evolutionary Science
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Martin Meyer speaks about Tinnitus and its implications for daily life as well as appropriate coping mechanisms.
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New paper out by Nick Sommerhalder et al.: Decay of central nervous mechanisms contribute to impaired speech recognition in older adults with chronic subjective tinnitus.
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New Paper by Zino Wellauer et al. titled "Neurostimulation and auditory masking alter the excitability of the human auditory cortex"
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The Agent Preference in Ontogeny: Predictability of Agent and Patient Roles in Child-Directed Utterances Across Languages