Découvrez les coulisses de la recherche au PRN Evolving Language avec Victoria, stagiaire avec nous pendant le mois de décembre ! Après avoir discuté de leur travail et de leur parcours avec les chercheur-se-s Alexis Hervais Adelman et Marion Bouffier, Victoria vous a préparé un résumé.
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 research in the field of language evolution. The ISLE also serves as the host institution of the NCCR Evolving Language.
Starting from Fall Semester 2025, the UZH will offer a Master’s program in Evolutionary Language Science, an interfaculty program by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Science. More information can be found on their website.
Exploring the past, present and future of language
The Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Evolving Language is a nationwide interdisciplinary research consortium bringing together research groups from the humanities, from language and computer science, the social sciences, and the natural sciences at an unprecedented level. Together, we aim at solving one of humanity’s great mysteries: What is language? How did our species develop the capacity for linguistic expression, for processing language in the brain, and for consistently passing down new variations to the next generation? How will our capacity for language change in the face of digital communication and neuroengineering?
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> All publicationsDriscoll, I., Briefer, E. F., & Manser, M. B. (2024). The role of neighbour proximity and context on meerkat close call acoustic structure. Animal Behaviour, 212, 113–126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.03.021
Our Network
Evolving Language is led by Balthasar Bickel (Department of Comparative Language Science, UZH), Daphné Bavelier (Cognitive Neuroscience group, UNIGE) and Klaus Zuberbühler (Institute of Biology, UNINE). Over 40 research groups across Switzerland are taking part in this NCCR, from 9 different institutions as well as partners in industry (Google AI, Sonova) and public organisations. The project has 3 leading houses: the University of Zurich, the University of Geneva and the University of Neuchâtel.
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Swiss Data Science Center
Wyss Center
Citizen Science Zürich
Fondation Campus Biotech
Zoo Basel
Neurocenter Science Zurich
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Sonova
Google Research
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