New paper co-authored by department members Guanghao You and Sabine Stoll
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- Presentation by Martin Meyer and Florian Riese: «Die Grenzen meiner Sprache sind die Grenzen meiner Welt» - Der Verlust der Sprache bei Demenz
- Paper presentation at the 23rd Amsterdam Colloquium
- JSPS Grant awarded to Nicole Tamer
- Five Talks by department members at the ALT Conference, Austin, TX
- Workshop: New Results and Methods in Reconstructing Population History
- New publication by Lev Michael, Natalia Chousou Polydouri, Gereon Kaiping and collaborators on Arawak calibrations
- Guest talk by Chundra Cathcart at Collaborative Research Center "Limits of Variability in Language", University of Potsdam
- Conference presentation by Milad Abedi at International Conference on Silk Road Studies: Iranian terms for footwear and their naming motivations
- Genes and languages go together, except when they don’t: New PNAS paper by DCLS members
- Release of the Gheg Albanian treebank co-authored by Christian Ebert and Paul Widmer in UD 2.11
- Poster presentation at BUCLD by Olivier Rüst
- BUCLD 47 poster by Mila Feurstein
- Presentation by Morgane Jourdain at BUCLD on the simplification of verb morphology in contingent child-directed speech
- Ira Kurthen, Allison Christen, Martin Meyer and Nathalie Giroud published a paper regarding neural speech tracking in NeuroImage
- New paper by Gabriel Jorgewich-Cohen, Simon Townsend and colleagues in Nature communications on the origins of acoustic communication!
- Invited talk by Erika Just by the CRC "Prominence in Language" in Cologne
- SNSF Ambizione grant awarded to Sebastian Sauppe
- Invited presentation by Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, David Inman, and Marine Vuillermet at the Dynamique Du Langage research unit in Lyon
- From typology to areality: Mapping American linguistic areas
- SNFS grant awarded to Stefan Schnell
- Invited talk by Marine Vuillermet at ComPLETE conference in Mainz
- Invited Talk by David Inman at ComPLETE conference in Mainz
- David Inman received third prize at the Societas Linguistica Europaea in the category of Best Conference Papers by starting post-doctoral researchers
- Conference paper by Milad Abedi at DOT 2022: A new perspective on a supposed sound change between Middle and New Persian
- Conference paper by Milad Abedi and Samira Müller at ICSTLL55: Donkey-eared or Rabbit-eared, that’s the question – Trans-Himalayan zoonyms as seen in relation with their neighbouring languages
- Call combinations in chimpanzees: a social tool?
- Second international ZAZH-congress, 1-3 September 2022
- PhD thesis defense Stefan Dedio
- Papers by Borja Herce and Carmen Saldaña at IMM20 in Budapest, 1-4 September 22
- Papers and Posters of DCLS members at JCoLE in Kanazawa & Online, 5-8 September 22
- Papers and Posters of DCLS members at SLE 55 in Bucharest, 24-27 August 22
- New paper by Carmen Saldana on (ir)rational decision making strategies across human and non-human primates
- New paper by Joseph Mine & Simon Townsend on communication used for cooperative hunting in chimpanzees
- New paper by Erika Just & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich on a corpus-based analysis of P indexing in Ruuli
- Papers of DCLS members at ICHL 25 in Oxford, 1-5 August 22
- Carmen Saldana presented joint work with Borja Herce and Balthasar Bickel at CogSci2022
- Talk by Johanna Schick at CogSci 2022: Declarative and imperative pointing acts by infants can be distinguished by accompanying preverbal vocalisations
- Talk on "Case marking influences visual event apprehension" by Arrate Isasi-Isasmendi and colleagues at CogSci 2022
- Nicole Tamer presents a poster at the IMPRS conference at the Max Planck Institue of Psycholinguistics
- Nicole Tamer, Alexandra Bosshard and Natalia Morozova present their research at interactive booths at the Night of Science in Geneva
- Nicole Tamer presents at ComHum22 at the University of Lausanne
- New review paper in Biological Reviews exploring the evolutionary origins of Arbitrariness
- CanDoc grant awarded to Silvan Spiess
- CanDoc grant awarded to Sakine Cabuk Balli
- Workshop at ULIS, Vietnam National University, Hanoi
- DCLS signs MoU with ULIS, Vietnam
- Simon Townsend receives SNSF Research Exchange grant
- Syntax is rooted in primate event cognition: two new papers by Bickel and colleagues
- New paper by Raffael Schmitt, Martin Meyer and Nathalie Giroud
- Dagmar Jung gave invited lecture at De La Salle University, Manila
- Nour Efrat-Kowalsky and Paul Widmer co-author paper introducing contacTree, a a Bayesian phylogenetic model with horizontal transfer for language evolution
- New paper by Constanze Riha, Dominik Güntensperger, Tobias Kleinjung and Martin Meyer
- Culture Conference - November 14th & 15th 2022
- Olivier Rüst and colleagues publish "The Acquisition of Case Systems in Typologically Diverse Languages: Children Gradually Generalize Abstract Grammatical Rules"
- New paper from Nicole Lahiff, Simon Townsend, Volker Dellwo and colleagues in Animal Cognition showing the processing of degraded and computer-generated speech in a language-trained bonobo.
- Talk at 3rd International Conference "Prominence in Language" on "The prominence of agents in event cognition and language processing: Reviewing the cross-linguistic evidence for a malleable preference"
- Three papers at the European federation for primatology in June 2022
- Chapter on differential object indexing in Maltese by Erika Just
- Bickel joins the Scientific Advisory Board of the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology
- Inman, Vuillermet present at SLE 2022 "Singular-plural stem alternation: A detailed typology and global distribution"
- New paper on "Cross-linguistic differences in case marking shape neural power dynamics and gaze behavior during sentence planning" by Bickel, Meyer, and Sauppe
- Kellen van Dam publishes paper on "Tangsa-Nocte as a Continuum: A diagnostic feature list for classification of varieties"
- K. van Dam's talk on "Semantic Splits in Northern Naga: Lexical disambiguation through partial sound changes in polysemes"
- New paper out in Language and Cognition co-authored by Sabine Stoll
- Dr. Rowena Garcia, University of Potsdam & MPI Psycholinguistics Nijmegen als Guest Speaker im PhD-Kolloquium am 26.4.2022
- Borja Herce will present at APIM 2022 (Analogical Patterns in Inflectional Morphology)
- New publication by Borja Herce relies on quantitative corpus data to describe the grammatical profile of a 'negative polarity item' in Spanish, and its emergence in the language.
- SNSF grant awarded to Chundra Cathcart
- Plenary talk at 35th Conference on Human Sentence Processing by department members Sebastian Sauppe, Martin Meyer, and Balthasar Bickel
- Paul Widmer and Salvatore Scarlata on R̥gvedic depictive adjectival compounds and their functions
- New paper by Benjamin Isler, Martin Meyer et al.
- New paper by Borja Herce explores the morphological intricacies of possessor inflection in Chichimec (Otomanguean)
- Talk by Borja Herce on "Stem alternations in Romance verbal inflection and the interaction between frequency and morphological paradigmatic predictability"
- "Plot of the month" series funded by GRC Short Grant
- Keynote by Sabine Stoll at the 9th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association
- New paper out in Cognitive Science, co-authored by DCLS members Carmen Saldana, Sabine Stoll and Balthasar Bickel
- Call for abstracts: ALT 14 workshop on differential argument indexing
- Edgar Suter reconstructs sets of subject inflections that may have ancient roots
- Outreach: NZZ article mentioning Martin Meyer's research
- Early Career Researchers receive GRC Peer Mentoring Grant
- Chapters co-authored by lab member Stefan Schnell
- Doing corpus-based typology with spoken language corpora
- Crosslinguistic corpus studies in linguistic typology
- Alexandra Bosshard presents "Using linguistic methods to quantify call combinations in chimpanzees" at IPS-SLAPrim 2022
- Maël Leroux and colleagues present 'Call Combinations in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)' at IPS-SLAPrim 2022
- 'Detecting structured repetition in child-surrounding speech: Evidence from maximally diverse languages’. New paper by Sabine Stoll and colleagues in Cognition