📣 Save the date 🗓️ to present your exciting statistical learning research at the 6th Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning Conference June 10-12 2026 in San Sebastián 🇪🇸

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@jennysaffran.bsky.social
@noranewcombe.bsky.social
@pyoudeyer.bsky.social

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UZH: Statistician Within the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Evolving Language and its 46 different research groups from a large variety of disciplines across Switzerland, and the University of Zurich ...

Exciting new opening @nccrlanguage.bsky.social with the option of permanent extension. If you work in cutting-edge stats and are interested in joining a highly inter-disciplinary, vibrant community, don't hesitate to apply at tinyurl.com/3fxwjk8e

Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL 2025) September 1, 8:30 AM - September 2, 6:00 PM | University of Zurich, AFL building

🎉 Registration is open for the Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing & Learning Workshop 2025!

Join us in Zurich (01–02.09.) for keynotes by Sudha Arunachalam & Lars Meyer, plus other exciting talks & posters.

Register: www.ema.uzh.ch/R7EPE

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PhD Position in the Statistical Modeling of Linguistic Evolution

📣 PhD position in Statistical Modelling of Language Evolution at our institute, to work with Prof Balthasar Bickel on modelling language diversification, see details here:
www.isle.uzh.ch/en/jobs/phd-...

New paper by our @nccrlanguage.bsky.social team w @franziswegdell.bsky.social, @carolinefryns.bsky.social , J Schick , @zuberbuehler.bsky.social, C v Schaik, S Townsend, and myself. Child-directed communication is a driver of language evolution.
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The road to negation: A comparative study of five typologically and culturally diverse languages - Sakine Çabuk-Ballı, Aylin C Küntay, Paul Widmer, Sabine Stoll, 2025 The acquisition of negation is a key milestone in early language development that enables children to express rejection, non-existence, and deny propositions. I...

How do children learn to negate with diverse linguistic and cultural background? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Children Learn Best From Their Peers: The Crucial Role of Input From Other Children in Language Development

New paper on the role of peers in language acquisition: direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...