Hearing loss and associated conditions such as tinnitus are the fourth highest cause of disability worldwide (Cunningham & Tucci, 2017; World Healt...

Linguistic structures show uneven global distributions, but it remains unknown to what extent such distributions are driven by human population his...

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How do we know that a sentence was said by a woman? How do we know that what she told us was a question? Researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR Evolving Language described the complex ...

Sebastian Krapp likes to dig deep into the foundations of science. Now a newly appointed lecturer in the Mathematical Foundations of Language at the University of Zurich, and a member of the NCCR Evol...

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A distinctive feature of the human brain is its capacity to learn and adapt to an ever-changing environment. What are the factors that promote such learning and brain plasticity? Are some parts of our...

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

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Evolutionary Biology throughout the lenses of Behavioral, Bioacoustics, Population Genetics, and Macroevolutionary research

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Most studies of language use investigate individuals listening to spoken words, or reading text, grounded in traditional theoretical views of language as abstract and symbolic. Listening to speech or…

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This is an agents’ world. Through a transspecies study, researchers from the University of Neuchâtel and NCCR Evolving Language have discovered that great apes could have a similar perception of event...

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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...