Language and Space Lab
We are the core unit of the URPP 'Language and Space' engaged in advancing laboratory-style, interdisciplinary approach to the study of language. We study how language is shaped by the space in which it is used, from individual interactions to global geographical patterns.
Lab director Peter Ranacher
Featured Projects
The following projects give you an insight into our current research.
- Non-randomness in Morphological Diversity: A Computational Approach Based on Multilingual Corpora (Text Group)
- Interactive discoveries: A video and eye-tracking based study of knowledge construction in science centres (Video Group)
- The ArchiMob Corpus of Spoken Swiss German (Text Group)
- The ReLDI Project on Croatian and Serbian (Text Group)
- More on our research
Recent Publications
Find more publications on members' individual pages and "All publications" (below).
- N. Ljubešić, M. Miličević Petrović, T. Samardžić (2019) "Borders and boundaries in Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian: Twitter data to the rescue" Journal of Linguistic Geography, 6(2)
- Y. Scherrer, T. Samardžić, E. Glaser (2019) "Digitising Swiss German: how to process and study a polycentric spoken language"
- H Matsumae, P Savage, P Ranacher et al "Exploring deep-time relationships between cultural and genetic evolution in Northeast Asia", bioRxiv
- All publications
Consulting and Services (with ZüKL)
We offer consulting and support in various research tasks.
Teaching
Courses Fall 2019, UZH
- An den Grenzen der Interaktion: Linguistische Randphänomene (Christoph Hottiger und Marcel Naef)
- Körper und Raum in computervermittelter Interaktion (Wolfgang Kesselheim)
- Getting started with R for spatial analysis (Peter Ranacher)
- Advanced Spatial Analysis I (Peter Ranacher und Robert Weibel)
- Programming for Linguists (Tanja Samardzic)
- Programming for Linguists, Tutorat (Tanja Samardzic)