URPP Language and Space News
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Iris Hübscher receives Peter Jusczyk Best Paper Award of the Journal Language Learning and Development
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Wolfgang Behr receives SNSF grant
URPP Language and Space member Wolfgang Behr receives an SNSF grant for his project Sino-Indo-Iranica rediviva: Early Eurasian migratory terms in Chinese and their cultural implications.
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Heiko Hausendorf: new SNSF project
URPP Language and Space member Heiko Hausendorf receives an SNSF grant for his project "Interaktion und Architektur: Vergleichende Fallstudien zur Re-Figuration institutioneller Kommunikation".
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Fall Semester 19: Two topical lecture series with URPP members
In fall semester 2019 there are two topical lecture series at the University of Zurich to which URPP Language and Space members contribute.
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News article Tania Paciaroni: Fieldwork Pyrenees
URPP Language and Space Postdoc Tania Paciaroni was at the Pyrenees for her fieldwork trip. The Frensch newspaper La Dépêche reports about her research stay (only accessible for subscribers).
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Christa Dürscheid at Bayrischer Rundfunk
URPP Language and Space member Christa Dürscheid talks about the online reference work "Variantengrammatik des Standarddeutschen" at Bayrischer Rundfunk.
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Nico Neureiter research stay in Auckland
URPP Language and Space Doctoral Student Nico Neureiter received an UZH Graduate Campus grant.
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Angelika Linke at SRF Echo der Zeit
Angelika Linke, member of the URPP Language and Space, was interviewed at SRF Echo der Zeit regarding the issue of gender-appropriate language.
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URPP Language and Space Site Visit
The URPP Language and Space Site Visit took place from 27 to 28 May 2019. The photos show a few impressions of the event, which included talks, discussions and a poster session.
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Volker Dellwo receives SNSF grant
The SNSF awarded Volker Dellwo 900k CHF for a four year project to study the Dynamics of Indexical Information in Speech and its Role in Speech Communication and Speaker Recognition.
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Naomi Baron and Lonneke van der Plas will be guests of the URPP Language and Space in 2019 with DSI fellowships
The Digital Society Initiative will fund the fellowships of Naomi Baron, professor at American University, Washington, and of Lonneke van der Plas, Senior Lecturer at the University of Malta, in the course of 2019.
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Volker Dellwo: Article in the Tages-Anzeiger
The Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger reports about Volker Dellwo's work as a voice forensic scientist.
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Scientific Advisory Board of the URPP with new members
Starting 2019, five internationally renowned experts in linguistics are members of the newly composed Scientific Advisory Board of the URPP Language and Space.
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Linguistic Research Infrastructure (LiRI) project entered Swiss Roadmap for Research Infrastructures 2021-2024
The big infrastructure project "Linguistic Research Infrastructure (LiRI)", lead by Elisabeth Stark, is now, at the end of a three level evaluation process by the institutions UZH, swissuniversities, SNSF and SERI, recorded in the Swiss Roadmap for Research Infrastructures State Secretary of Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).
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Rik van Gijn receives ERC consolidator grant for investigating South American population history
Congratulations to Rik van Gijn, member and co-coordinator of the URPP Language and Space research group "Areal Morphology", for this great success! The project "South American population history revisited: multidisciplinary perspectives on the Upper Amazon" (SAPPHIRE) is hosted by Leiden University.
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SNSF sinergia project "Out of Asia: Linguistic Diversity and Population History" approved
Successful third party fund raising by members of the URPP Language and Space research group "Areal Morphology", Paul Widmer, Robert Weibel, Shimizu Kentaro and Balthasar Bickel.
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Florian Sommer successfully defended his dissertation
Florian Sommer successfully defended his dissertation December 11, 2018, entitled "Sprachgeschichtliche und kontaktlinguistische Untersuchungen zur Morphologie der baltischen Sprachen". Congratulations!
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Visiting the Humanities Lab at Lund University, Sweden
A delegation of the URPP Language and Space visited the Humanities Lab at Lund University. Victoria Johansson, vice director of the lab, and Maja Petersson, administrative coordinator, lead a demonstration tour through all the lab facilities and organized meetings between the Language and Space Lab members and the Humanities Lab team.
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Elvira Glaser's leave as co-leader of the URPP Language and Space
Elvira Glaser, who founded and developed the URPP Language and Space together with Heiko Hausendorf, was honored festively during the retreat 2018, November 23, in Vitznau.
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Development of Linguistic Research Infrastructure (LiRI) approved by UZH Executive Board
In autumn 2018 the Executive Board approved investments into the development of linguistic research infrastructure at UZH. A research center with lab structure for linguistics and other language-related disciplines will be built, facilitating data generation and data processing by providing cutting edge ressources, an integrated IT infrastructure and professional support in data management and data science.
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Research training in linguistics: theory, logic, method
In 2019, the Universities of Zurich, Geneva and Belgrade offer a pilot programme "Revisiting research training in linguistics: theory, logic, method", funded by the Swiss agency Movetia: Exchange and Mobility.
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Cooperation with SFB 1265 Re-Figuration von Räumen, TU Berlin
A delegation of the URPP Language and Space met with project members of the Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) "Re-Figuration von Räumen" of TU Berlin, November 11, 2018 in Berlin. Members of the research group Interactional Spaces (UZH) on the one side and of the project cluster Räume der Kommunikation (TU Berlin) on the other side presented selected research projects and results.
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Karina Frick in the UZH News
The UZH News published an article written by Karina Frick, who was a postdoc at the URPP Language and Space until the end of May.
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Citizen Science project "Schweizerdeutsch 1930/2020" launched
The project "Schweizerdeutsch 1930 / 2020 - Finde deinen Dialekt in den 40 Wenker-Sätzen", lead by Elvira Glaser, was realized in collaboration with the Citizen Science Center, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich.
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Further training "Zur Sprache"
Members of the URPP Language and Space offer courses in the 2019 series "Zur Sprache" Zurich Center for Linguistics (ZüKL).
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SRF2 Kultur Feature: "Alemannisch auf beiden Seiten des Rheins"
In a radio feature by André Perler dialectologist Elvira Glaser explains the variability of dialect features in the alemannic language area on the basis of various audio examples.
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Days of Swiss Linguistics 2018
Quite a few members of the URPP Language and Space research groups present their projects at the Day of Swiss Linguistics 2018 in Berne.
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Carlota de Benito Moreno Assistant Professor of Language and Space in Ibero-Romance
Carlota de Benito Moreno was appointed Assistant Professor of Language and Space in Ibero-Romance by the Board of the University of Zurich on September 1, 2018.
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New members at the URPP Language and Space
The URPP Language and Space welcomes new members from September 2018 and the following months.
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Movetia finances project in the Language and Space Lab
Language and Space Lab has been approved a new project "Revisiting research training in linguistics: theory, logic, method" (Nr 2018-CH-IP-0012) by Movetia, Exchange and mobility.
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New Co-Leadership at the URPP Language and Space
Since August 1, 2018, the URPP Language and Space is led by Heiko Hausendorf and Elisabeth Stark.
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Forschungskredit Candoc scholarship for Kenan Hochuli
Kenan Hochuli, doctoral student in the Language and Space Lab of the URPP Language and Space, gets a scholarship from the UZH Grants Office.
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URPP doctoral student Katja Egorova: PhD defence
The first doctoral student employed by the URPP, Katja Egorova, defended her PhD thesis on Thursday, 12. April 2018.
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Stefan Höfler affiliated to research group "Interactional Spaces"
Starting in March 2018, Stefan Höfler is affiliated to the research group "Interactional Spaces".
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Article on vocal accommodation in humans and other primates
Hanna Ruch, Yvonne Zürcher and Judith M. Burkart published an article on "The function and mechanism of vocal accommodation in humans and other primates" in Biological Reviews (Nov 2017)
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Third party project "(Dis-)entangling traditions on the Central Balkans: Performance and perception" with the focus Torlak region
The new third party project "(Dis-)entangling traditions on the Central Balkans: Performance and perception", funded by ERA.Net RUS, is coordinated by URPP Language and Space member Barbara Sonnenhauser. Further project partners are Andrej Sobolev (Russian Academy of Sciences) and Biljana Sikimić (Serbian Academy of Sciences). The project duration is 36 months.
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Co-operation between the CorpusLab and the SNSF project "What’s up, Switzerland?"
Applying tools from machine translation as well as neural network approaches, team members of the CorpusLab (one doctoral student, one MA student) will support the research team of the project “What’s up, Switzerland (SNSF Sinergia project: CRSII1_160714, lead: Elisabeth Stark UZH) to normalize (i.e. “translate” on a word-by-word basis following described rules) the dialectal Swiss German data in their multilingual corpus of WhatsApp messages.
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Newly approved third party funded projects within the URPP Language and Space
New third party projects have been approved for the CorpusLab and the research groups of the URPP Language and Space.
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Scientifica - Contributions with the involvement of URPP Language and Space Researchers
From 1. to 3. September 2017 the Scientifica takes place at the University of Zurich with the subject "Was Daten verraten". The contributions where researchers of the URPP Language and Space are involved are listed below.
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Workshop-Conference Öffentlichkeit als Interaktion
The Workshop-conference "Öffentlichkeit als Interaktion" takes place at the University of Zurich from 18. to 20. January 2018. It is organized by Antonia Steger, Nathalie Meyer, Kenan Hochuli (all URPP Language and Space) and Yonca Krahn (Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies). The young researchers successfully submitted a proposal to the Graduate Campus, which supports the event.
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Citizen Science Exhibition
Linguistic research largely rests on data collected in fieldwork and experiments. Linguists are dependent on the participation of sources willingly providing information about questions linguists want to answer. The Graduate Campus of the UZH organizes an exhibition on participatory research from varying disciplines. Linguistics is well represented. In 7 projects out of 19 members of the URPP Language and Space made significant contributions.
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Katja Egorova got SNSF Early Postdoc Mobility Fellowship
Katja Egorova received a SNSF Early Postdoc Mobility Fellowship for
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Antonia Steger at LERU Summer School 2017
Antonia Steger, Doctoral student at the URPP Language and Space, was accepted for LERU Doctoral Summer School 2017.
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CSF Award for Ekaterina Egorova and Randi Moore
At the URPP conference "Spatial Boundaries and Transitions in Language and Interaction: Perspectives from Linguistics and Geography," the best presentation and the best poster were awarded by the CSF.
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Conference "Spatial Boundaries" Program Online
The detailed program for the conference "Spatial Boundaries and Transitions in Language and Interaction - Perspectives from Linguistics and Geography" from 23. - 28. April 2017 is online.
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New Doctoral Student in the VideoLab's "Interactive Discoveries" Project
Christoph Hottiger, who worked as an assistant at the URPP Language and Space, is a doctoral student in the SNSF-project "Interactive discoveries: A video and eye-tracking based study of knowledge construction in science centres" since 01. February 2017.
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The URPP Language and Space at Scientifica 2017
Der UFSP Sprache und Raum wird mit dem Thema "Sprache im Raum - Raum in der Sprache: Wie interdisziplinäre Forschung aus Linguistik und Geographie diesen vielfältigen Zusammenhängen auf die Spur kommen kann" an der Scientifica 2017 vertreten sein.
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The URPP Language and Space CorpusLab mentioned in UZH News
UZH News released an article about the ArchiMob corpus of the the URPP Language and Space CorpusLab.
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Workshop "Accommodation in Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior" at SLE 2017
The Workshop proposal "Accommodation in Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior" submitted by Wolfgang Kesselheim, Agnes Kolmer and Hanna Ruch was accepted for SLE 2017.
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ArchiMob Corpus Release 1.0
The CorpusLab presents the ArchiMob corpus. It contains transcripts of interviews with Swiss citizens, who are witnesses of the Second World War.
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Paper accepted for COLING 2016
The paper "A Comparison Between Morphological Complexity Measures: Typological Data vs. Language Corpora" by Christian Bentz, Tatyana Ruzsics, Alexander Koplenig and Tanja Samardzic was accepted for a workshop at the COLING 2016.
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Tanja Samardzic guest at "angesprochen. Der Linguistik-Podcast"
In October 2016, Tanja Samardzic was a guest at "angesprochen. Der Linguistik-Podcast". The subject of the October issue was "Big data in the language sciences".
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SLE 2017 Workshops: Contribution URPP Language and Space
The Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) 2017 meeting takes place from 10. to 13. September 2017. The URPP Language and Space is also involved in the workshops.
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Deadline 31.10.2016 Call for Papers conference "Spatial Boundaries and Transitions in Language and Interaction - Perspectives from Linguistics and Geography"
Abstract submission for the international conference "Spatial Boundaries and Transitions in Language and Interaction - Perspectives from Linguistics and Geography" is still possible for two weeks.
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Registration open URPP conference "Spatial Boundaries and Transitions in Language and Interaction - Perspectives from Linguistics and Geography"
From today it is possible to register for the URPP Language and Space conference "Spatial Boundaries and Transitions in Language and Interaction - Perspectives from Linguistics and Geography".
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Poster presentation at COLING 2016 conference
The paper "GeoTweet - A Tool for Collecting, Processing and Analysing Geo-encoded Linguistic Data" submitted by Nikola Ljubešić, Tanja Samardzic and Curdin Derungs has been accepted for a poster presentation at the COLING 2016 conference.
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Antonia Steger in residence at Pavilleon
Antonia Steger, PhD student in the research group Interactional Spaces, is in residence at Pavilleon from Monday, October 3, to Friday, October 7, 2016.
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SNSF International Short Visit Christian Bentz
Christian Bentz is a guest of the CorpusLab at the URPP Language and Space in September in the context of a SNSF International Short Visit.
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New members at the URPP Language and Space
A few junior researchers and research associates are starting their project work at the URPP Language and Space in September 2016.
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New members at the URPP Language and Space
A few junior researchers and research associates have started their project work at the URPP Language and Space in summer 2016.
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Hasler Foundation finances ArchiMob-Corpus Project
Hasler Foundation finances the continuation of the ArchiMob-Corpus project led by Tanja Samardžić.
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Call for Papers: International Conference "Spatial Boundaries and Transitions in Language and Interaction - Perspectives from Linguistics and Geography"
The international conference "Spatial Boundaries and Transitions in Language and Interaction - Perspectives from Linguistics and Geography" will take place from April, 23 to April, 28 2017 at Monte Verità, Ascona.
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Extension of the URPP Language and Space
The URPP Language and Space has been approved for another four-year period by the University management.
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Open Position for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The University Research Priority Program (URPP) on Language and Space at the University of Zurich invites applications for the position of a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (75% FTE).
The duration of employment is initially limited to two years.
Application deadline: June 15, 2016.
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Open Position for a Doctoral Student
Im SNF-Forschungsprojekt „Interactive Discoveries“ an der Universität Zürich ist zum 01. Juli 2016 die Stelle einer Doktorandin / eines Doktoranden zu besetzen. Das Projekt ist am VideoLab des UFSP Sprache und Raum (SpuR) angesiedelt.
Die Stelle ist befristet bis 30.6.2019.
Bewerbungsfrist: 06.05.2016.
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Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship for Teodora Vuković
Teodora Vuković receives a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship for a URPP-relevant topic. She is supervised by Barbara Sonnenhauser, Slavisches Seminar and Tanja Samardžić, CorpusLab. Starting in fall 2016.
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New Doctoral Student at the CorpusLab, Tatiana Soldatova
Tatiana Soldatova is the new doctoral student at the CorpusLab since 01.05.2016. She is supervised by Baltashar Bickel, Martin Volk and Tanja Samardžić.
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Approvals and extensions
SNSF-Project «DOM im Spanischen», J. Kabatek; SNSF-Project «SPARCLING», M. Hundt, M. Volk; Research Council of Lithuania «Kooperationsnetzwerk mit Universität Vilnius», P. Widmer; SNSF-Project «Der Himmel hat von sich aus keine Ordnung des Vorne und des Hinten», W. Behr
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Professorship Eleanor Coghill
The URPP Language and Space congratulates Eleanor Coghill on the full professorship in "Semitic Languages" at Uppsala Universitet. It will start in August 2016.
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2 research internships in the research group „Linguistic Areas,“ URPP Language and Space
In February 2016 two internships in the context of the research project „Accommodation in dialect contact situations“ are available. The internships will last two weeks.
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Open positions (SNSF projects)
Currently, URPP Language and Space-related institutions invite applications for several open positions in the context of SNSF projects.
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New Home of the URPP Language and Space
Since 1 September 2015, the URPP Language and Space is located on Freiestrasse 16, 8032 Zurich.
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Successful Fundraising
This year members of the URPP Language and Space were extremely successful in raising external funds from the Swiss National Science Foundation.
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SNSF project “Regional Linguistic Data Initiative” (ReLDI) at the CorpusLab
The CorpusLab has started a two-year institutional partnership with the universities of Zagreb and Belgrade, funded by SNF. One of the goals of the partnership is the development of an infrastructure for linguistic data, which will be hosted at UZH.
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Dr. Klaus Wolfgang Kesselheim appointed as Privatdozent
Auf Antrag der Philosophischen Fakultät ist Dr. Klaus Wolfgang Kesselheimauf das Herbstsemester 2015 zum Privatdozenten ernannt worden. Dr. Kesselheim leitet das VideoLabdes UFSP Sprache und Raum.
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Workshop Series "Conceptualising & Applying Topology", March 9–30, 2015
The workshop series consists of three subsequent one-day workshops. Each workshop day features an input talk from an invited guest speaker from different fields (Computational Sciences, Human Geography, Architecture, Philology).
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Presentation by Uliana Petrunina at PAC 2015
Uliana Petrunina, doctoral student at CorpusLab, presents her paper "Some prosodic features of checking and yes-no questions in African American English" at PAC 2015 in Toulouse.
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We welcome new staff members!
We welcome the following new staff members who will take up employment at URPP Language and Space beginning of February 2015: Eleanor Coghill, Postdoc in research group "Linguistic Areas"; David Gerards, PhD student in research group "Linguistic Areas"; Nathalie Meyer, PhD student in research group "Interactional Spaces"; Assistants in the Labs: Henning Beywl (CorpusLab), Julian Kissling (GISLab)
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Workshop "Visualizing Linguistic Data", Nov, 21st, 2014
The workshop "Visualizing Linguistic Data", is organized by Curdin Derungs, director of the GISLab, Elvira Glaser, Johannes Kabatek und Philipp Stöckle. It takes place on November, 21st, 2014 at the UZH. The link "More" directs you to the flyer with program and further information.
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Workshop "Partitivity in Romance and beyond", Dec, 11-13, 2014
The International Exploratory Workshop "Partitivity in Romance and Beyond" is organized by Elisabeth Stark and Giorgio Iemmolo. You find a detailled description, the provisional program and abstracts via the link below.
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Two KLIP applications approved
Two applications for small linguistic projects (KLIP) by Elvira Glaser and Tanja Samardžic and by Hanna Ruch and Anne Göhring, have been approved by the Zurich Center for Linguistics ( ZüKL).
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Presentation by Heiko Hausendorf at Linköping University (Sweden)
Heiko Hausendorf is giving a talk at Linköping University (Sweden) on "Where the action is. Notes on Interaction architecture.", September 3, 2014.
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Presentation by Curdin Derungs and Ross Purves at GIScience 2014 Conference
Curdin Derungs, Head of GISLab, und Ross Purves, member of both research groups at the URPP Language and Space, are giving a talk at the GISCience 2014 conference in September, Vienna, on "Where's near? Using n-grams to explore spatial relations".
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CorpusLab welcomes Doctoral Student Uliana Petrunina
The URPP Language and Space welcomes Uliana Petrunina as Doctoral Student at the CorpusLab.
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"More than just words": article in UZH News about URPP Language and Space event
UZH News visited the URPP Language and Space event "Sprache im Laboratorium" ("Language in the Laboratory"), organized in cooperation with Deutsch 3.0 by the Goethe Institute (article in German).
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New article by Hanna Ruch
The article "Synchronic and diachronic factors in the change from pre-aspiration to post-aspiration in Andalusian Spanish" by Hanna Ruch, Postdoc at URPP Language and Space, and Jonathan Harrington, Director of the Institute of Phonetics and Digital Speech Processing at the University of Munich, was published in Journal of Phonetics 45 (2014), 12-25.
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Hanna Ruch presents posters in Berkeley and Tokyo
Hanna Ruch, Postdoc at URPP Language and Space, presents her poster with the title "The indexical function of pre- and post-aspiration in a sound change in progress" at a workshop on "Sound Change in Interacting Human Systems" at University of California, Berkeley (28-31 May, 2014). She is also presenting her poster on "Aspiration metathesis in Andalusian Spanish: the role of place of articulation" at the "14th Conference on Laboratory Phonology" in Tokyo (25-27 July, 2014).
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Jürg Fleischer as guest researcher at URPP SpuR
The URPP SpuR is pleased to announce that Jürg Fleischer, Professor for German Philology at the Philipps-University Marburg, will join the research group Language Areas as a guest researcher in May 2014.
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Workshop discussion organized by research group Interactional Spaces with Jörg Bergmann
The workshop discussion on "Lesepräsenz in virtuellen Räumen" takes place on Wednesday, 19.03.2014 from 09:30-12:00.
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Workshop "Maps and Grammar" by project SynMod
The workshop "Maps and Grammar" encompasses a meeting and exchange between the two projects Maps and Grammar of the Meerten Instituut (Amsterdam) and SynMod of University of Zurich. It takes place on Friday, March 21st, 2014.
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Workshop discussion organized by research group Interactional Spaces with Alfons Bora
The workshop discussion takes place on Thursday, 03.04.2014 from 15.00-18.00, ("Rechtsräume") and Friday, 04.04.2014 from 10.00-12.00 ("Institution und Architektur").
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Sjef Barbiers is guest of the URPP SpuR at Linguistic Colloquium
Sjef Barbiers, Professor for Dutch Variation Linguistics at the Meertens Instituut (Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences), has been invited by the URPP SpuR-associated project SynMod to give a lecture at the Linguistic Colloquium on "Maps and Grammar".
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Program ISLE3 in Zürich now online
The URPP SpuR will be represented at the Third Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English(ISLE3) in Zurich (August 24-27, 2014), with Marianne Hundt (member of research group Language Areas) with a presentation on "Who is more active and involved? A corpus-based approach to voice in academic Englishes" (together with Gerold Schneider and Elena Seoane) as well as with a poster on "Attitudes towards Varieties of English in Fiji" (together with Lena Zipp and André Huber). The 2014 edition of the conference will be hosted by the English seminar, University of Zurich.
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Guest Lecture Adam Kilgariff
Adam Kilgariff, Director Lexical Computing Ltd., Brighton, will give a guest lecture in the seminar Corpus Linguistics by Marianne Hundt at the English Department with the title "Getting to know your corpus".
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URPP SpuR at "Linguistic Afternoon"
The Zurich Center for Linguistics is the organiser of a "Linguistic afternoon" that will take place on 21 February 2014 and features many contributions by URPP Language and Space members. There will be presentations by Marianne Hundt and Daniel Schreier, amongst others, as well as poster presentations by Marianne Hundt and Martin Volk, Angelika Linke, Wolfgang Kesselheim, Elvira Glaser, Hanna Ruch and Tanja Samardžić.
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Tanja Samardžić and Hanna Ruch in the series "Forschungskolloquium Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft"
Hanna Ruch (PostDoc URPP SpuR) and Tanja Samardžić (head of CorpusLab) each give a talk in the series "Forschungskolloquium Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft". Hanna Ruch will talk about „Phonetische Akkomodation in Dialektkontaktsituationen: Theoretischer Hintergrund und Fragestellungen für ein Projekt zum Schweizerdeutschen“ (28.2.2014) and Tanja Samardžić about „Automatic acquisition of event duration (based on verb aspect)“ (7.3.2014)
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URPP SpuR at CUSO Doctoral Student's Day
The URPP Language and Space collaborates in organizing the CUSO Doctoral Student's day at 10th of April 2014. Prof. Dr. Heiko Hausendorf will give a short overview of the URPP Language and Space, Manuel Berger and Ekaterina Egorova will present their PhD projects.
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Tanja Samardžić teacher at summer school QUALD
Tanja Samardžić, head of the CorpusLab URPP Language and Space, will teach a course "From theory to data and back" at the summer school QUALD (Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Data).
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Curdin Derungs New Head of GISLab
Curdin Derungs has taken up his work as head of the GISLab of the URPP Language and Space.
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Hanna Ruch presents poster at P&P9 Conference
URPP Language and Space member Hanna Ruch will be presenting her poster "Wer spricht? - Zur Wahrnehmung von Sprecheralter und -dialekt in einem aktuell stattfindenden Lautwandel im andalusischen Spanisch" at the 9th annual meeting of the phoneticians and phonologists in the main building of the University of Zurich on October 12th 2013 between 13:00 and 15:00.
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Project funds for Johannes Kabatek
Johannes Kabatek has received an SNSF contribution for his project "Experimentelle Morphosyntax romanischer Sprachen". The 4-year project, which began on 1 April 2019, employs two postdoctoral students, one doctoral student and two assistants.