We look forward to next week's Joint Conference on #LanguageEvolution in Kanazawa Joint Conference on Language Evolution! More than 20 NCCR members will participate in the event, and around 14 of them are currently flying to Japan. More about our participation: evolvinglanguage.ch/joint-conferen… #JCoLE2022

Join me today at 15.10 for my talk at #jcole2022 about the sequential dynamics in the vocal system of common marmosets. Spoiler alert: those guys are pretty cool. NCCR Evolving Language Department of Comparative Language Science

Amazing talks for the 2nd day with NCCR authors chiara barbieri Kentaro K. Shimizu　清水健太郎 @BalthasarBickel Alexandra B. Bosshard Simon W. Townsend Paola Merlo @tamer_nicole Paul Widmer Piette Theophane ... [1/2]

How to investigate the linguistic properties of animal communication? In our last paper, Coye Camille, @GDezecache, Jeremy Kuhn and I propose an intro to study semantics, pragmatics and syntax in any species 🐵🐦🦋 and any communication system 🗣️👋 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Thanks for having me! Now we know what we'll do with a drunken sailor, who only thinks in Markov chains 😄⛵️

Check out my first ever paper in IntJPrimatology🐦 Does an Australian bird produce syntax-like structures? W/ Simon W. Townsend Sabrina Engesser Helen Mylne Joseph Mine In case you were wondering what a bird paper is doing in a primate journal, its part of a special issue. 🧵

Our 4th #NCCRWomen of this week is Alexandra B. Bosshard! She a PhD student Universität Zürich investigating the communication of non-human animals, trying to explore how animals talk to each other! ISLE Department of Comparative Language Science Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF) NCCRWomen

Morning in the lab recording the stimuli for our Swiss German syntax-prosody project with Alexandra B. Bosshard

This is a huge honour and I am incredibly grateful to my group for nominating me in the first place! @Mael_Lx Silvan Spiess Alexandra B. Bosshard Dr. Franziska Wegdell Joseph Mine 🎊🎉

New paper in Nature Communications 6 years in the making and led by the amazing @Mael_Lx Call combinations and compositional processing in wild chimpanzees University of Zurich Swiss National Science Foundation ISLE NCCR Evolving Language nature.com/articles/s4146…

Pint of Science CH Don't miss today Alexandra B. Bosshard Department of Comparative Language Science ISLE in St-Gallen, Piette Theophane & Kinkini_bhadra Giraud Lab Geneva University Neuro🧠Center NeuroLéman in Geneva, Lonneke van der Plas Idiap Research Institute in Sion and tomorrow Dr Adrian Soldati (🦋@adriansoldati.bsky.social) Comparative Cognition Neuchatel in Lugano!

Alexandra B. Bosshard presenting her NCCR Evolving Language PhD research on sequential dynamics in the marmoset vocal system #IPSKuching

Congrats to NCCR Evolving Language PhD student Alexandra B. Bosshard for receiving an honourable mention for her talk on marmoset vocal sequences at #IPSKuching @BalthasarBickel ISLE Evolutionary Cognition Group Paola Merlo

Nice to see collocation analysis being extended to investigate non-random food combinations! Ping Alexandra B. Bosshard @Mael_Lx!

Du bist Ü60 und möchtest mehr über die Entwicklung der Sprache erfahren? Die Senior:innen-Universität Zürich Universität Zürich bietet zwischen dem 22. März und dem 12. April einen Kurs an, der in Zusammenarbeit mit dem NFS Evolving Language durchgeführt wird! seniorenuni.uzh.ch/de/services/Zu…

Nothing beats discussing chimp gestures and meaning on a roller coaster 🎢

This paper in Royal Society Publishing was a long time in the making but so happy to see it out now! Huge congrats to Sabrina Engesser for an incredible amount of work! w/Sotaro Kita Amanda Ridley Stuart K Watson NCCR Evolving Language UZH Science ISLE Swiss National Science Foundation royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

📰🐒Marmoset monkeys can combine their calls into sequences, with hierarchical rules! Learn more in the new #article on our website, based on the recently published research of Alexandra B. Bosshard Simon W. Townsend & @BalthasarBickel University of Zurich ! In EN, FR and DE. evolvinglanguage.ch/decoding-the-s…

New paper led by Alexandra B. Bosshard providing further support that primate vocal sequences are structurally more complex than previously thought! With @BalthasarBickel Evolutionary Cognition Group Paola Merlo and Chundra Cathcart NCCR Evolving Language Swiss National Science Foundation UZH Science royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

New paper out now! 🥳Nonadjacent dependencies and sequential structure of chimpanzee action during a natural tool-use task: peerj.com/articles/18484/