What do we know about the language extinction rate?

Using color perception tasks with French and Himba participants, we show that aging affects color discrimination more strongly in the Himba, consistent with the lens brunescence hypothesis. We sugges...

This article presents the Chana Research Station as a platform for interdisciplinary research on linguistic, cultural, and cognitive diversity in the Peruvian Amazon. It outlines ongoing work on lang...

The fourth version of the Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications (https://clics.clld.org) was published last year. Now, we launched the accompanying web application that presents the data for in...

We seek to hire an expert in machine learning at the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Evolving Language and its 46 different research groups from a large variety of disciplines across ...

The Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), invites applications for a postdoctoral position in In

Each year, the Max Planck Society recognises young researchers for their exceptional scientific achievements during their doctoral studies. The Otto Hahn Medal, which comes with a prize of €7,500, aim...

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Mechanisms of Social Behavior lab at the Karolinska Institutet (PI: Björn Lindström) in Stockholm, Sweden is seeking a highly qualified

Expressions in which the word for a body part is also used for objects can be found in many languages. Some languages use body part terms to refer to object parts, while others have only a few idiosyn...

Within the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Evolving Language, which involves nearly 40 different research groups from a large variety of disciplines across Switzerland, and the Univer...

Lexical resources are crucial for cross-linguistic analysis and can provide new insights into computational models for natural language learning. Here, we present an advanced database for comparative ...

NoRaRe, the Database of Cross-Linguistic Norms, Ratings, and Relations, is a resource that curates multiple datasets containing information on various properties of words and concepts. When researcher...