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Archive: DCLS Colloquium

FS 24

Time: 16:15–18:00; Room: AFL-F-121

Date

Speaker(s) Title
20.02.24 No Colloquium  
27.02.24 Erich Round, University of Surrey Language's infection point: From cognitive spark to astounding richness

05.03.24

different time slot: 12:15-13:30

Usha Goswami (ISLE, NCCR, B&C)

online

Dyslexia, Rhythm, Language and the Developing Brain
12.03.24 Klaus Oberauer, University of Zurich The role of working memory for language
19.03.24 Olga Filatova, University of Southern Denmark

Cultural macro- and microevolution of killer whale dialects

26.03.24 Aixiu An, University of Zurich Evidence for a communication-based approach to acceptability across 8 languages
02.04.2024 No Colloquium / Easter Break  
09.04.2024 No Colloquium  
16.04.2024 Carel ten Cate, Leiden University The linguistic abilities of birds – a window on language evolution
23.04.2024

Erik Ringen and Sabine Stoll, University of Zurich

[CANCELLED]

Do we need more participants or more recordings? Sample-size and study design for the analysis of behavioral rates
 [CANCELLED]

30.04.2024

different time slot: 12:15-13:30

Marina Laganaro, University of Geneva

online

From lexical selection to articulation across the lifespan 
07.05.2024 Steffen Hage, University of Tübingen Motor control mechanisms in primate vocal behavior
14.05.2024 Erik Ringen, Reinhard Furrer, Sabine Stoll, University of Zurich Do we need more participants or more recordings? Sample-size and study design for the analysis of behavioral rates
21.05.2024 Annemarie Verkerk, University Saarland Functional vs. diachronic explanations in typology
28.05.2024 Nina Kazanina, University of Geneva The know-hows of syntactic structure building in the neural tissue

HS 23

Time: 16:15 - 18:00; Room: AFL-F-121

 

Date

Speaker(s) Title
20.09.23 Frank Seifart, ZAS Berlin / CNRS DLLD Lyon Determinants of local deceleration of speech in world-wide samples of spoken corpora

27.9.23

NO COLLOQUIUM  
4.10.23 John Mansfield, UZH Formal and emotional aspects of human language
11.10.23

Eleanor Chodroff, UZH

Crosslinguistic structure in phonetic realization
18.10.23 Tai Hong, UZH & Guido Linders, UZH

Tai Hong: Evolution of morphosyntactic alignment

Guido Linders: Looking beyond written English: How investigations of statistical linguistic patterns across languages and registers can benefit our understanding of language and cognition

25.10.23

NO COLLOQUIUM

 

 

1.11.23

Pelin Teberoglu, UZH
Pelin Teberoglu: An acoustic analysis of the Turkish vowel system
8.11.23 NO COLLOQUIUM X-PPL Workshop
15.11.23 Ioulia Kovelman, University of Michigan The Reading Brain:  Bilingual and Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Literacy
22.11.23 Caroline Andrews, UZH Producing case in Shipibo-Konibo: Ergativity and Optionality in Planning language development

29.11.23

NO COLLOQUIUM  
6.12.23 Catalina Torres, UZH Crossed, nested, and adjoint dependencies in Swiss German: a prosodic investigation
13.12.23 Yaqing Su, UZH/UNIGE Exploring hierarchical prediction in human speech comprehension
20.12.23 NO COLLOQUIUM
 

 

FS 23

Time: 16:15 - 18:00; Room: AFL-F-121

 

Date

Speaker(s) Title
22.02.23 --- --- no colloquium ---

01.03.23

Sean Roberts, Cardiff University The future of large-scale cross-cultural correlations
08.03.23 Igor Yanovich , University of Vienna Approximate Bayesian Computation for complex models with lexical data
15.03.23

---

--- no colloquium ---
22.03.23 Maarten Mous, Leiden University Fusion of related languages: the case of the Rangi and Mbugwe Bantu languages of Tanzania
29.03.23

Silvan Spiess, UZH


Nataliya Fartdinova, UZH

 

Valerie Ledermann, MA thesis

Konatsu Ono, MA thesis

Syntax-like structuring and vocal complexity in a social bird

The role of auditory selective attention in speech processing

Language endangerment and conflict risk

Communication and Supporting Physiological Mechanisms in Cooperating Marmosets

05.04.23

Barbara Höhle
What the eyes reveal about language acquisition
12.04.23 --- --- no colloquium ---
19.04.23 --- --- no colloquium ---
26.04.23 Tilbe Göksun Internal and external sources of variation in early language development

03.05.23

Silke Brandt, Lancaster University A cross-linguistic perspective on Theory of Mind and language development
10.05.23 Sonja Riesberg, CNRS / University of Cologne & Mark Ellison, University of Cologne Discourse prominence in Totoli: voice choice and word order
17.05.23 --- --- no colloquium ---
24.05.23 Jonas Obleser
Listening and meta-listening — Direct and indirect pathways in auditory language comprehension
31.05.23 Lars Meyer Brain Rhythms of Chunking: Constraining Processing, Shaping Language

 

HS 22

 

Date

Speaker(s) Title
21.09.22 No colloquium ---
28.09.22 Mauricio Martins, University of Vienna Recursive Hierarchical Embedding in the Visual, Musical and Motor Domains
05.10.22 No colloquium ---
12.10.22

Sarah Babinski, UZH

 


Alexandru Craevschi, UZH

An acoustic study of structured prosodic variation in some languages of Australia
A quantitative study of word order of non-subject constituents in languages of Western Asia
19.10.22 Geoffrey Haig, University of Bamberg
26.10.22

Zino Wellauer, UZH

 

Selma Hardegger, UZH

Speech Processing in the Tinnitus Brain

What is Learned First in the Languages of the World: Nouns vs. Verbs

02.11.22

 

Hao Wei, UZH
online
Strength and duration of self-triggered   priming in framing an active or passive structure: the role of agent & patient information
09.11.22 Johanna Rimmele, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics Neural oscillatory models of auditory cortex interactions
16.11.22 Nick Evans, Australian National University Unsundering Sahul: Can we find deep time connections across the Torres Strait?
23.11.22 Emiliano Zaccarella, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Neural, behavioural, and evolutionary aspects of the combinatorial linguistic mind
 

30.11.22

Anne Keitel, University of Dundee
online

How (individual differences in) brain rhythms influence speech processing
07.12.22 Dagmar Divjak, University of Birmingham Of Principles and Practice: what emerges when we learn from usage?
14.12.22 IVS Day  
21.12.22 No colloquium ---

 

FS22

 

Date

Speakers

Title

23.02.2022

- No colloquium - ---

02.03.2022

Judith Degen,
Stanford University

On the role of referential utility and incrementality in cross-linguistic referring expression production

09.03.2022

Tai Hong,
University of Zurich

Reconstructing the spatio-temporal evolution of the Dravidian language family

16.03.2022

Basil Preisig,
University of Zurich

From hand gestures to auditory attention: A journey through the neurobiology of language from my PhD to my Ambizione project

23.03.2022

Laura Dees,
University of Zurich

The Slavic Opening of Syllables: contact-induced or language internal?

30.03.2022

Simone Pfenninger,
University of Zurich

Dynamic methods for dynamic processes: New tools to study dynamicity in L2 development in older adults

06.04.2022 Oliver Bond,
Collegium Helveticum fellow, University of Surrey
A typology of agreement targets

13.04.2022

Luca Onnis,
University of Oslo
Does the word order of languages bias sequential learning and processing?

27.04.2022

Padraic Monaghan,
Lancaster University

Sound symbolism: Where and when do we find it in language?

04.05.2022

- No colloquium -  

11.05.2022

Isaac Schamberg,
Nicole Lahiff,

Erika Just,
University of Zurich

Flexibility in bonobo vocal production
Vocal production and perception in bonobos

To mark, or not to mark, and the question what a word is

18.05.2022

Katherine Bolaños,
University of Zurich

Assessing the Arawak empire through secules of contact

01.06.2022

Nurcihan Özcan,
Maël Leroux,
Margaux Dubuis,
University of Zurich

The information content of a core social call type in chimpanzees: The pant-grunt,
Non-adjacent dependencies in bonobos,
Evidentiality in the context of football commentaries: A case study in Shipibo-Konibo

HS 21

 

Date

Speakers

Title

22.09.2021

Mélissa Berthet

Morgane Jourdain

Combinatoriality in bonobos

The development of words and word-like units in child speech

 

29.09.2021

- no colloquium -

 

06.10.2021

online

Rolf Hotz

Chintang corpus and dictionary, and functional load

13.10.2021

Natalia Morozova

 

Valeriia Perepelytsia

Cross-cultural perspective on the ontogeny of joint action coordination and backchannel use

Neural correlates of voice processing

20.10.2021

Raffael Schmitt

 

Thomas Huber

Carlo Meloni

Speech perception in hearing impaired older adults

 

The evolution of clause linkage

27.10.2021

online

Tim Sainberg, UCSD

Perception and production of long and short-range sequential structure in vocal communication

03.11.2021

Catalina Torres

 

Simone Gentile

 

How loose are Pitjantjatjara loose clause chains? A prosodic perspective

On Old Iranian Gelenkpartikel: a reassessment

10.11.2021

Matthias Urban, DFG-Center for Advanced Studies "Words, Bones, Genes, Tools",
University of Tübingen

Typological distributions and the linguistic and non-linguistic prehistory of the Central Andes and South America

 

17.11.2021

George Walkden The diachrony of hypotaxis and parataxis

24.11.2021

Claudia Willke

Bernd Vath

 

An Overview of former and current research projects

01.12.2021

online

Isabell Wartenburger, Universität Potsdam

Prosodic boundary cues in spoken language comprehension and production – from infants to older adults

08.12.2021

online

Nina Arisci

Other-initiated repair in the acquisition of three typologically diverse languages

15.12.2021

- no colloquium - IVS Day

22.12.2021

- no colloquium -

 

FS 21

Date Speakers Title

24.02.2021

Johanna Schick
Franziska Wegdell

Presentations by Early Career Researchers from the DCLS

 

03.03.2021

Mathias Jenny
Hiram Ring
Wei-Wei Lee

Southeast Asian Studies at the IVS/ASW

 

10.03.2021

Alec Shaw

 

Nicole Tamer

Structure Planning and its Computations in the Brain (project summary)

The Evolution and Diversification of Non-Arbitrariness (project summary)

17.03.2021

Thomas Huber

Diachronic Effects of Animacy on Object Marking: Insights from Icelandic

24.03.2021

Manuel Rüdisühli

 

Carmen Saldaña

Adjacent and Non-adjacent Dependency Processing in Meerkats: an artificial grammar learning experiment

Morphology as Shaped by Learning Biases

31.03.2021

Vitoria Piai (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University and Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen)

Spoken Word Production in Context: Evidence from Electrophysiology and Brain Lesions

07.04.2021 no colloquium Easter Break

14.04.2021

Isabelle Dautriche (Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, Aix-Marseille University)

Looking for the Roots of Semantic Properties and Operations in Infancy and in Nonhumans

 

21.04.2021

Anna Graff

Miranda Dickerman

Alexandra Bosshard

Hotbeds of Linguistic Diversity

The Role of Context in Meaning Disambiguation

 

Compositionality in the Communication System of Nonhuman Primates

28.04.2021

Marc Tang (Dynamics of Language Lab, University Lumière Lyon 2, France)

The Patterns and Dynamics of Nominal Classification: An Overview

05.05.2021

Milad Abedi

Ebru Ger


Joseph Mine

Early Sino-Iranian Lexical Borrowings

The Influence of Language on Children’s Causal Event Representation: A Cross-linguistic Approach

Chimpanzee Vocal Communication: The Role of Gestures, Facial Expressions and Other Extralinguistic Cues in Meaning Disambiguation

12.05.2021

no colloquium

Ascension

19.05.2021

Nikola Falk

Chantal Oderbolz

Eva Huber

Signal Diversification & the Origins of Arbitrariness

Speech, Prosody, and Oscillations

Semantic Roles in Child Language Development

26.05.2021

no colloquium

IVS Day

02.06.2021

Stefan Schnell


Chundra Cathcart

Reference production and grammatical relations in discourse from diverse languages

Phonological and morphological complexity and change

HS 20

Date Speakers Title
18.09.2020

Wei-Wei Lee

Maël Leroux

Yingqi Jing

Presentations by Early Career Researchers from the DCLS
23.09.2020
 
Stefan Dedio
Borja Herce
Presentations by Early Career Researchers from the DCLS
07.10.2020

Martin Meyer,

Department of Psychology, UZH

The AST hypothesis. What is right and what is left of this theory?
14.10.2020

David Inman

Jessica Ivani

Stuart Watson

Presentations by Early Career Researchers from the DCLS
21.10.2020

Kim Gfeller

Nour Efrat-Kowalsky
Isaac Schamberg

Presentations by Early Career Researchers from the DCLS
28.10.2020

Olivier Rüst

Liudmyla Feurstein

Guanghao You

Presentations by Early Career Researchers from the DCLS
04.11.2020 Lena Jäger,
Dept. of Computational Linguistics, UZH
Replicability in Psycholinguistics
11.11.2020 Christian Ebert
 
Presentations by Early Career Researchers from the DCLS
18.11.2020
Jurgis Pakerys,
Issues in Old Lithuanian Morphosyntax
25.11.2020 Emilie Genty, Institute of Biology, U of Neuchâtel Combining Signals can provide Functional Specificity and Communicative Efficiency: Evidence from bonobos’ vocal-gestural combinations
02.12.2020 Berthele,
Inst. of Multilingualism, U of Fribourg

Testing Language Aptitude: History of the construct and empirical investigations of young multilinguals

09.12.2020

Ryan Cotterell,

Dept. of Computer Science, ETH Zurich

16.12.2020 no colloquium IVS Day, 14:15-17:45 (18:30)

FS 20

Date Presenter Title
18.02.2020

Garcia, Maxime

From static features of sound production to speech-relevant vocal flexibility
25.02.2020 Merlo, Paola Mechanisms of argument structure realisation in human languages
03.03.2020 Bangerter, Adrian Joint commitments and joint action in humans and great apes

HS 19

Date Presenter Title
20.09.2019 John Mansfield Lexicalisation and predictability in polysynthetic verbs
27.09.2019 MA students Presentation of MA theses at IVS
11.10.2019 Caroline Andrews
Natalia Chousou-Polydouri
Marine Vuillermet
Presentation of personal research projects
18.10.2019 Piera Filippi
Carmen Saldaña
Kellen van Dam
Presentation of personal research projects
25.10.2019 Gereon Kaiping
Giuachin Kreiliger
Vanessa Wilson
Presentation of personal research projects
01.11.2019 Natalia Levshina Causative constructions: converging evidence from typological, experimental and corpus data
08.11.2019 Taraka Rama Towards a deeper understanding of the performance of Bayesian phylogenetic methods for Historical Linguistics
15.11.2019 Wendy Sandler The plasticity of the language faculty: insights from sign language
06.12.2019 IVS day Overview of research activities at IVS
13.12.2019 Marco Baroni Neural network linguistics

FS 19

Date Presenter Title
01.03.2019 Evan Kidd Sentence production in Murrinhpatha
08.03.2019 Adam Zawiszewski Processing an ergative language: the case of Basque
29.03.2019 Sonia Cristofaro Source-oriented typology: Implicational universals in diachronic perspective
05.04.2019 Melissa Berthet Titi monkeys alarm sequences: A simple yet complex vocal system?
10.05.2019 Antonio Burraco Human self-domestication and language(s) evolution: insights from DNA
17.05.2019 Mattis List Open problems in computational diversity linguistics
24.05.2019 Birgit Hellwig Child language documentation: The Qaqet project (Papua New Guinea)

HS 18

Date Presenter Title
05.10.2018 Piera Filippi Emotional expression through voice modulation: Biologically universal code underpinning language evolution

19.10.2017

Hiram Ring


Nick Lester

Syntax in Austroasiatic languages (and other random stuff)


Information-theoretic approaches to syntax and lexicon: Perspectives from processing, acquisition, and typology

26.10.2018 François Pellegrino Exploring the Human Language Niche: Do languages regulate their information rate?
02.11.2018 Alexis Hervais-Adelman Degradation and Control – Tales of language and the motor system
09.11.2018 Word order workshop Presentations on word order
16.11.2018 Anne-Lise Giraud cancelled
30.11.2018 IVS Day IVS research presentations
14.12.2018 Guus Kroonen Archaeogenetic approaches to the Proto-Indo-European dispersal – opportunities and limitations

FS18

Date Presenter Title
02.03.2018 Monique Flecken Seeing events through a language lens: Cross-linguistic influences in event cognition
09.03.2018 Enrique Palancar Criss-crossing classification in inflectional morphology : The case of Amuzgo (Oto-Manguean, Mexico)
16.03.2018 John Lowe Non-verbal transitive categories in Vedic Sanskrit
23.03.2018 Ben Ambridge Avoiding overgeneralization errors across languages: The Crosslinguistic Acquisition of Sentence Structure (CLASS) Project
20.04.2018 François Pellegrino Exploring the Human Language Niche: Do languages regulate their information rate? Cancelled
27.04.2018 Marcus Perlman Language is iconic and multimodal to its evolutionary core: Evidence from the gorilla Koko and a high-stakes (human) game of “vocal” charades
04.05.2018 Jekaterina Mažara, Géraldine Walther,
Claudia Cathomas
The morphosyntax of agreement in Tuatschin: acquisition and contact
11.05.2018 Camille Coye
25.05.2018 members of the IVS IVS research presentations

HS17

Date Presenter Title

22.09.2017

LiMiTS group

Reports from LiMiTS

29.09.2017

Simon Townsend
(UZH, IVS)

Combinatorial structures in the vocal systems of non-primate animals

06.10.2017

Chundra Cathcart
(UZH, IVS)


Andreas Hölzl
(UZH, IVS)

Differentiating causes of linguistic similarity: problems, progress, and koans


An overview of previous work

13.10.2017

LiMiTS group

Reports from LiMiTS II

20.10.2017

Gerd Carling
(Lunds universitet)

The lexicostatistical dilemma: is there a way out of the ‘measure-by-substitution’-method for lexical data?

27.10.2017

Alejandrina Cristia
(CNRS Paris)

Infant-directed input and early language acquisition: Optimal, sufficient, necessary?

10.11.2017

Nikolaus Himmelmann
(Universität zu Köln)

Stress, not tone is the problem in advancing prosodic typology

17.11.2017

Adriano Reis e Lameira
(University of St Andrews)

The first word: Why, when, where?

24.11.2017

 

Presentation of MA theses

01.12.2017

Andreas Willi
(University of Oxford)

Vorindogermanisches Alignment und indogermanisches Verb

08.12.2017

Guglielmo Inglese
(Università di Pavia)

The Hittite middle voice: a corpus-based synchronic description of a polysemous marker

15.12.2017

Alexander Lubotsky
(Universiteit Leiden)

TBA

FS17

Datum Vortragende/r Titel

03.03.2017

Andrea Surber
(UZH, IVS)

(MA thesis)

10.03.2016

Marisa Casillas
(MPI Nijmegen)

Early language experience and communicative development in two rural indigenous communities

17.03.2017

Sean Roberts
(MPI Nijmegen)

Language adapts to interaction

24.03.2017

Caroline Rowland
(MPI Nijmegen)

What predicts how quickly children learn words?

31.03.2017

Åshild Næss
(Universitetet i Oslo)

Prominence and grammatical relations in Austronesian (and beyond)

07.04.2017

Ilja Seržant & Dariya Rafiyenko
(Universität Leipzig)

The dynamics of Greek prepositions (with the main focus on perì 'about'): corpus-based approach

28.04.2017

Katarzyna Janic
(UZH, IVS)

Between linguistic typology and historical linguistics – a case study of antipassive

 

John Mansfield
(University of Melbourne)

Murrinhpatha: Language change and acquisition in a highly irregular inflectional system

05.05.2017

Robert Ladd & Stephan Schmid
(University of Edinburgh & UZH, IVS)

Aspiration, laryngeal features, and obstruent effects on F0: Evidence from Zurich German

12.05.2017

Olav Hackstein
(LMU München)

Echo-answer systems in diachronic perspective and Indo-European etymology

19.05.2016

John Peterson
(Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel)

Towards a linguistic prehistory of eastern-central South Asia (and beyond)

02.06.2017

Ingo Strauch
(Université de Lausanne)

Die “Dead Sea Scrolls” des Buddhismus? Zur Bedeutung der Handschriftenfunde in Gandhara

HS16

Datum Vortragende/r Titel

23.09.2016

Richard Hahnloser
(INI Zürich)

From vocal behavior in songbirds to computational linguistics

30.09.2016

Felicity Meakings
(University of Queensland)

Complex cell-mates: Measuring complexity across single and multiple variables in situations of language contact

 

Rachel Nordlinger
(University of Melbourne)

Morphological complexity across the Murrinhpatha generations

07.10.2016

Freek van der Velde
(University of Leuven)

Converging evidence for the role of demographic factors in language change

28.10.2016

Martine Robbeets
(MPI Jena)

Millet and beans, language and genes: the dispersal of the Transeurasian languages

04.11.2016

Christian Huber
(Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)

Der Pluraktional-Marker im Shumcho

11.11.2016

James Blevin
(University of Cambridge)

Abstractive Discrimination

18.11.2016

Caleb Everett
(University of Miami)

Ergative discourse?

25.11.2016

Anne Kandler
(MPI Leipzig)

An inference framework for analysing patterns of cultural change:
Evidence for fashion trends in LBK culture

02.12.2016

Geraldine Kwek
(University of Cambridge)

Navigating through Singapore's multilingual society: a phonetic analysis of /r/-variation

16.12.2016

Claire Bowern
(Yale University)

Phylogenetics and Australian languages: trees and their uses

FS16

Datum Vortragende/r Titel

04.03.2016

Alexandre François
(Lacito CNRS, Paris)

Historical Glottometry: A wave-model approach to language subgrouping

 

Simeon Floyd
(MPI Nijmegen / Raboud Universiteit Nijmegen / Senescyt Ecuador)

Modally hybrid grammar? Celestial pointing for time-of-day reference in Nheengatú

11.03.2016

Nicholas Evans
(Australian National University)

The multilingual matrix of language evolution: Lessons from small-scale speech communities

18.03.2016

Paola Merlo
(Université de Genève)

The Quest for Language Universals: Computational Models and Evaluation Methods

08.04.2016

Andrej Malchukov
(Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

Issues in the typology of ditransitive constructions

15.04.2016

Michael Ramscar
(Universität Tübingen)

Learning, discrimination and language

22.04.2016

Russel Gray
(MPI Jena)

The big bright future of linguistics

13.05.2016

Ekkehard König
(Freie Universität Berlin)

Definite articles and their uses: diversity and patterns of variations

20.05.2016

Linda Konnerth
(University of Oregon)

Hierarchical and non-hierarchical verb indexation: Innovative SAP:O and 1:O markers in Tibeto-Burman

27.05.2016

Eleonora Sausa
(Università di Pavia)

Competing argument structure constructions with bivalent verbs in Homeric Greek

03.06.2016

Armin Schwegler
(University of California, Irvine)

Linguistics and population genetics (DNA): Reconstructing the origins of Latin America's Black populations

HS15

Datum Vortragende/r Titel

18.09.2015

Fermín Moscoso del Prado Martín
(University of California, Santa Barbara)

Measuring diversity and inferring causal relations in language: Towards an ecology of linguistic contructions?

25.09.2015

Volker Gast
(Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)

Cross-height harmony in Papua New Guinea: The vowels of Idi as spoken in Sibidiri

02.10.2015

Arlo Griffiths
(EFEO Paris)

Towards the publication of a corpus of the Pyu inscriptions of ancient Burma and the decipherment of the Pyu language (Tibeto-Burman)

16.10.2015

Mark Dingemanse
(MPI Nijmegen)

Universal principles in the repair of communicative problems

30.10.2015

Danae Perez
(UZH, Englisches Seminar)

The Documentation of Afro-Yungueño Spanish - Challenges and Benefits

06.11.2015

Rushen Shi
(Université du Québec à Montréal)

Morpho-syntactic acquisition in preverbal and early verbal infants

13.11.2015

Bodo Winter
(University of California, Merced)

Sensory dynamics of the English lexicon

20.11.2015

Peter Schrijver
(Universiteit Utrecht)

Wie erkennt man Lautwandel, die durch Kontakt verursacht sind, wenn der Kontakt nicht belegt ist?

27.11.2015

Ruedi Stoop
(UZH, Institut für Neuroinformatik)

What is it that makes humans superior to animals - is it their language?

11.12.2015

Damián Blasi
(UZH, IVS)

Language data science and the typological bottleneckt

18.12.2015

Jessica Katiuscia Ivani
(Università di Pavia)

The morphosyntax of number systems: a cross-linguistic study

FS15

Datum Vortragende/r Titel

20.03.2015

Sandra Schwab
(UZH, IVS)

Are French-speaking listeners forever deaf to lexical stress?

27.03.2015

Connie de Vos
(MPI Nijmegen)

Modality-specific and language-specific elements of sign language acquisition: perfective aspect in Kata Kolok

13.04.2015

Pieter Muysken
(Radboud Universiteit)

Boundaries and Bridges: Multilingual ecologies in the Guyanas

20.03.2015

Volker Dellwo
(UZH, IVS)

Why we know more about language and speech than we can possibly know

27.03.2015

Gerson Klumpp
(Tartu Ülikool)

Nominaldetermination und Fokusmarkierung: Funktionswandel von Possessivsuffixen im Komi

17.04.2015

Yi Xu
(University College London)

Toward operational representations of tone and intonation: Evidence from computational modeling

22.04.2015

Francis Nolan
(Universiy of Cambridge)

Speech rhythm: a metaphor?

24.04.2015

Ludwig Paul
(Universität Hamburg)

Die Ausbreitung des Persischen als lingua franca

15.05.2017

Sandra Auderset
(UZH, IVS)

Voice and person marking - a typological study

08.05.2015

Uta Reinöhl
(Unviersität zu Köln)

Disentangling semantic and formal change in grammaticalization - A case study from Indo-Aryan

22.05.2015

Jekaterina Mažara, Robert Schikowski, Steven Moran, Sabine Stoll
(UZH, IVS)

Language acquisition in a comparative perspective: an introduction to the ACQDIV project

29.05.2015

Stephan Schmid
(UZH, IVS)

Palatale Obstruenten in italo- und rätoromanischen Varietäten: Lautwandel oder Retention?

HS14

Datum Vortragende/r Titel

26.09.2014

Rachel Weymuth
(UZH, IVS)

Negation im Palaung

03.10.2014

Anvita Abbi
(MPI EVA, Leipzig)

Understanding the Possible Variability of Human Language: Case of Rare Linguistic Structures in The Present Great Andamanese Language

10.10.2014

Srini Narayanan
(ICSI Berkeley / Google Zürich)

Combining Conceptual and Distributional Semantics in a Computational Model of Figurative Inference

17.10.2014

Manuel Widmer
(U Bern)

Wissen aus Syntax – die Entstehung epistemischer Verbalkategorien im Bunan

24.10.2014

Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
(Stockholms universitet)

Lexical Typology as Emerging Field of Study

31.10.2014

Götz Keydana
(Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

‘Finite’ Infinitive im Griechischen

07.11.2014

Dan Dediu
(MPI Nijmegen)

What can we learn from two natural experiments in language evolution, us and the Neandertals?

14.11.2014

Jeffrey Heath
(U Michigan)

Issues in Dogon tonosyntax

28.11.2014

Agnes Korn
(Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M.)

Baktrisch und das Ende des Stammbaums

05.12.2014

Shirin Hegetschweiler
(UZH, IVS)

Item-Specificity in the Learning of Verbal Morphology in Chintang

12.12.2014

Kaius Sinnemäki
(U Helsinki)

Linear order and morphological marking across four different constructions

19.12.2014

Laurence White
(Plymouth University)

Beating the bounds: Are there universal prosodic cues to speech segmentation?