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 Klaus Wolfgang Kesselheim
Featured Projects
The following projects give you an insight into our current research.
- Uneven Distribution of Morphology in different Language Families (GIS Group)
- The ArchiMob Corpus of Spoken Swiss German (Text Group)
- The ReLDI Project on Croatian and Serbian (Text Group)
- Interactive discoveries: A video and eye-tracking based study of knowledge construction in science centres (Video Group)
- More on our research
Recent Publications
Here are some of our most recent contributions. Find more publications on members' individual pages.
- Ch. Brandenberger and Ch. Hottiger in Revue Tranel (2018)
- C Derungs, M Köhl, R Weibel, B Bickel in Proc. R. Soc. B 285 (2018)
- E Egorova, Th Tenbrink, R Purves in Spatial Cognition & Computation (2018)
- M Lusetti, T Ruzsics, A Göhring, T Samardzic in Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop VarDial2018, COLING2018
Consulting and Services (with ZüKL)
We offer consulting and support in various research tasks.
Teaching
Current courses of our members at the University of Zurich.
- Fall 2018: Telefonkommunikation (Wolfgang Kesselheim)
- Fall 2018: Wissenschaftskommunikation (Wolfgang Kesselheim)
- Fall 2018: Advanced Spatial Analysis I (Peter Ranacher)
- Fall 2018: Getting started with R for spatial analysis (Peter Ranacher)
- Fall 2018: Techniken der Semantikanalyse (Tanja Samardzic)