A team from the University of Geneva, Pasteur Institute and the NCCR Evolving Language shows that virtually all animal species have been vocalizing in a common rhythm for hundreds of millions of years...

Languages are diverse: thousands are spoken worldwide, and they differ widely in the structures they use. Human DNA variation preserves the history of populations and individuals. Are these two dimens...

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Human population contact leads to consistently similar rates of linguistic borrowing, but effects vary across linguistic features.

Within the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Evolving Language and its 46 different research groups from a large variety of disciplines across Switzerland, and the University of Zurich ...

A team of researchers from the University of Neuchâtel studied the ability to associate a new sound with an object, amidst a noisy but familiar environment. This cognitive faculty of rapid association...

September 1, 8:30 AM - September 2, 6:00 PM | University of Zurich, AFL building

The acquisition of negation is a key milestone in early language development that enables children to express rejection, non-existence, and deny propositions. I...

Human language is not as unique as we think.

Compositionality, the capacity to combine meaningful elements into larger meaningful structures, is a hallmark of human language. Compositionality can be trivial (the combination’s meaning is the sum ...

Der Nationale Forschungsschwerpunkt (NFS) Evolving Language wurde 2020 als interdisziplinäres Forschungsnetzwerk gegründet. Unter der Leitung der Universitäten Zürich, Genf und Neuchâtel arbeiten über...

Sentence-initial arguments with role-specific case markers (e.g., accusatives) have been reported to be processed slower than arguments with default c…

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The language comprehension system preferentially assumes that agents come first during incremental processing. While this might reflect a biologically fixed bias, shared with other domains and other ....

The Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (University of Zurich) invites applications for a postdoctoral position in Indo-European Studies, preferably with a focus on the Ana...

Meeting Description: The Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop (X-PPL) brings together the growing community of researchers working to expand the diversity of languages in the scope of psycholinguistics and the neuroscience of…

Scientific Data - Curating global datasets of structural linguistic features for independence

On January 1, 2025, the University of Zurich (UZH) created a new institute, the Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (ISLE). Its mission is to deepen interdisciplinary resea...

The NCCR Evolving Language invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher in population genomics to study the demography of humans and domesticated crop species related to language evolution at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich.

Are only humans capable of tracking agent/patient roles during events, a cognitive foundation of syntax? This study shows that great apes, like human adults but unlike infants, differentiate agents fr...

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According to scientists from the University of Zurich and the NCCR Evolving Language, some aspects of language may not be as unique as previously thought. In a new paper, the team of linguists and bio...