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Department of Comparative Language Science

2021

News list

  • Oliver Hellwig, Salvatore Scarlata and Paul Widmer publish on "Reassessing Rigvedic Strata"

  • Outreach: Anna Graff in radio interview on "Cultural macroevolution of musical instruments in South America" with Radio Tribu

  • Martin Meyer and colleagues publish on "Cognitive Benefits of Learning Additional Languages in Old Adulthood" in Applied Linguistics

  • "Does morphological complexity affect word segmentation? Evidence from computational modeling," New paper by Sabine Stoll and colleagues in Cognition

  • Carlo Meloni presents a poster on "In Search for the Biblical Rhotic - Identifying Biblical Hebrew's Resh" at ESHP 5

    Department member Carlo Meloni presented a poster at the poster session of the Fifth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology on December 7, 2021, entitled "In Search for the Biblical Rhotic - Identifying Biblical Hebrew's Resh".

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  • Outreach: Talks on Auditory Training by Martin Meyer

  • Piera Filippi gave a guest lecture on "Vocal expression of emotion across animal species: Implications for the study of language evolution" at the ENES lab

  • Outreach: Talk by Martin Meyer on "Wie Sprache in den Kopf kommt"

  • DLCS at annual symposium of the DFG Center for Advanced Studies "Words, Bones, Genes, Tools"

  • Outreach: Talk by Martin Meyer on "EEG Neurofeedback bei Tinnitus" at the KNZ

  • Conference paper by Oliver Hellwig and colleagues at CHR 2021: Obtaining More Expressive Corpus Distributions for Standardized Ancient Languages

  • Word order variation is constrained by syntactic complexity, but only for some dependencies: new paper in Cognitive Science

  • "Children develop causatives despite pervasive ellipsis: Evidence from Turkish”: Presentation by Guanghao You at BUCLD

  • Poster presentation by Johanna Schick at BUCLD 2021

  • Poster Presentation by Olivier Rüst on the acquisition of case systems in typologically diverse languages: Children gradually generalize abstract grammatical rules at BUCLD

  • Outreach: Carlo Meloni gave a talk on the Aramaic language at the CILV

  • "Acquisition of negation across ten typologically diverse languages” by Sakine Çabuk-Balli et al. at BUCLD

  • Understanding Corpus Linguistics: New textbook by Stefan Schnell

  • Workshop "A Structured Approach to Linguistic Data Collection: Methods in Language Acquisition and Processing" at the IGRS 2021

  • EEG resting-state and event-related potentials as a marker of learning success in older adults following second language training: new paper out by Martin Meyer in Brain Plasticity

    A recently published paper by an UZH group including department member Martin Meyer entitled "EEG resting-state and event-related potentials as a marker of learning success in older adults following second language training" is now out in Brain Plasticity. The authors demonstrate that all older participants who partook in a second language learning class improved their L2 skills but differed noticably in their individual development.

    Kliesch, M., Giroud, N. & Meyer, M. (2021). EEG resting-state and event-related potentials as markers of learning success in older adults following second language training: a pilot study. Brain Plasticity 7:143-121, doi: 10.3233/BPL-200117.

     https://content.iospress.com/articles/brain-plasticity/bpl200117

  • Piera Filippi discussant at VIHAR workshop

  • Stress and stem allomorphy in the Romance perfectum: new paper by Borja Herce in Linguistics

  • Cultural macroevolution of musical instruments in South America; new paper by Chiara Barbieri, Anna Graff et al.

  • Talk by Olivier Rüst on the acquisition of case systems in typologically diverse languages: Children gradually generalize abstract grammatical rules

  • New paper on dependency length minimization by Jing, Blasi and Bickel in Language

  • Keynote lecture by Sebastian Sauppe

  • New papers by Chundra Cathcart and colleague

  • Talk by Eva Huber on "Differences between inflectional and derivational morphology: a study based on the predictability in a distributional vector space" at KONVENS21

  • Talk on the Jinghpaw lexicon by Kellen Parker van Dam

  • Talk on the reduplication of intensifiers in Ollo (Laju) and Kasik (Khapa Nocte) by Kellen Parker van Dam

  • New paper by Guanghao You, Balthasar Bickel, Moritz M. Daum, and Sabine Stoll

  • Guanghao You defended his PhD thesis

  • "Is there a typological profile of isolates?" - Talk at SLE21

  • Child-directed speech is optimized for syntax-free semantic inference: new paper in Sci. Rep.

  • Grammatical typology traces population history beyond individual families: new paper in Sci. Adv.

  • Next-generation areal linguistics: new paper in J. R. Soc. Interface

  • Paper on "Testing the Relationship Between Looking Time and Choice Preference in Long-tailed Macaques" by Vanessa Wilson et al.

  • 15th August at ICSNL56: Talk on "Coargument Sensitivity in the Pacific Northwest" by David Inman

  • 29 July: Talk by Jekaterina Mažara and Sabine Stoll at CogSci 2021

    Talk on "Frequency vs. Salience in First Language Acquisition: The Acquisition of Aspect Marking in Chintang" by Jekaterina Mažara and Sabine Stoll at CogSci 2021

    Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 43.

  • 16 July at IASCL 2021: Poster presentation by Jekaterina Mažara and Sabine Stoll

    Jekaterina Mažara and Sabine Stoll presented a poster on "Aspect acquisition correlates less with tense than expected” at IASCL 2021

  • Talk on "The exponence and development of plurals in Nuuchahnulth" by David Inman at ICSNL56

  • Talk on "Comparing sketch acquisition grammars of Dene and Inuktitut" by Dagmar Jung and colleague

  • A new link in the Pacific Rim languages? New paper by Bickel and colleagues in Linguistic Typology

  • Talk on "Stress and stem allomorphy in the Romance perfectum: emergence, typology, and motivations of a symbiotic relation" by Borja Herce at ISMo2021

  • Talk on "Open vs closed classes in Pamean and the predictability of inflectional systems" by Borja Herce and colleagues at AIMM5

  • Talk on "Is there a typological profile of isolates" by Natalia Chousou-Polydouri and colleagues at SLE2021

  • Talk on "The diachrony of inflection classes: what can information-theoretic measures and quantitative approaches contribute to historical linguistics?" by Balthasar Bickel and Borja Herce at SLE2021

  • Talk on "Conceptual Interdependence in Language Description, Typology, and NLP: Examples from Nuuchahnulth" by David Inman

  • Talk on "Referential choice in transitive clauses in Austronesian" by Stefan Schnell and colleague at ICAL15

  • Talk on "Interpreting the archaeological record to calibrate Arawakan linguistic phylogenies" by Natalia Chousou-Polydouri and colleagues at SALSA XIII

  • Talk on "Mapping linguistic areas: a preliminary case study in Amazonia" by Marine Vuillermet, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri and colleagues at SALSA XIII

  • Keynote by Sabine Stoll at UBL5

  • Keynote by Balthasar Bickel at UBL5

  • Rolf Hotz to start a PhD at the University of Sydney

  • Yingqi Jing received SNSF Postdoc Mobility Fellowship

  • Talk on "Neuro Proto-language Reconstruction" by Carlo Meloni and colleagues at NAACL

  • New paper by Vanessa Wilson on the effects of rearing and AVPR1a genotype on the presence of autistic-like traits in chimpanzees

  • Sabine Stoll will give a Keynote on June 3, 2021 at the VILA 4 conference

  • New paper on Ancient Greek by Florian Sommer

  • Bickel and colleagues at this year's Cultural Evolution Society Conference

  • Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, Kellen Parker van Dam, David Inman, Marine Vuillermet, Balthasar Bickel and colleagues will give a talk at SALSA

  • Talk on "Quantitative detection of cognacy in the predictive structure of inflection clases" by Borca Herce and Balthasar Bickel at SIGTYP

  • New publication by Florian Sommer on Lithuanian reflexives and IE word domains

  • New paper by Ebru Ger: "Relation of Infants’ and Mothers’ Pointing to Infants’ Word Comprehension and Latency to Find Referents"

  • New paper by Guanghao You, Moritz M. Daum, and Sabine Stoll: "Processing Causatives in First Language Acquisition: A Computational Approach"

  • Proceedings of the 45th Boston University Conference on Language Development now online

  • Piera Filippi will give a talk at the Pufendorfinstitute

  • Rachel Weymuth defended her PhD thesis

  • Ebru Ger defended her PhD thesis

  • New book chapter by Sabine Stoll & Robert Schikowski

  • André Müller defended his PhD thesis

  • Wei-Wei Lee defended her PhD thesis

  • SNFS Grant for Karin Stüber

  • Dagmar Jung to give a guest lecture in Toronto

  • A visual stimulus for eliciting associated motion: paper by Marine Vuillermet

  • Special issue on Source-Goal (a)symmetries across languages: edited by Marine Vuillermet and Anetta Kopecka

  • State of the art on Source-Goal (a)symmetries across languages: paper by Marine Vuillermet and colleague

  • Keynote lecture by Nour Efrat-Kowalsky: "What modern distribution can tell us about the past: Evidence from the Ancient Near East"

  • Talk by Olivier Rüst on the acquisition of case systems: Host – case combinations are gradually generalized

  • Talk by Arrate Isasi-Isasmendi on the role of case during scene apprehension for speaking

  • Cross-linguistic patterns of morpheme order reflect cognitive biases: paper by Carmen Saldaña

  • Talk on Ancient Greek participles by Florian Sommer

  • Corpus-based phonetics: new paper by Bickel and colleagues

  • Neural signatures of ergativity in speech planning: new paper by department members

  • Rigvedische Komposita in der rekursiven Satzverknüpfung: new paper by Scarlata and Widmer

  • New paper on linguistic phylogeography

  • Balthasar Bickel talk in Jerusalem

  • Dagmar Jung to give talk on doing remote fieldwork at the 2021 SSILA meeting