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Kristina Eiviler has been awarded a research grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) for a one-year stay in Japan. She will work with Prof. Gabriele Trovato at the Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT, Tokyo, Japan) to continue her research on human-robot interactions.
After the fellowship, she will return to Zurich and spend the next four years as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Beth Singler at the URPP Digital Religions.
Congratulations!
Christoph Hottiger has successfully defended his PhD thesis "Doing reading in interaction" on 24.07.2023.
The Fund for the Advancement of Young Academics (FAN) is funding Kenan Hochuli's project "The Co-Evolution of Language, Interaction and Architecture". Congratulations!
The URPP Language and Space will have a new co-leadership from 01.04.2023 on.
The book Multimodal Im/politeness, edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Iris Hübscher and Lucien Brown, has recently been published.
Olga Pelloni (Sozinova) successfully defended her PhD thesis on January 27, 2023.
The collective volume on postcards Ansichten zur Ansichtskarte: Textlinguistik, Korpuspragmatik und Kulturanalyse with the participation of URPP Language and Space members has just been published.
Omnia Ibrahim, former PhD student at the URPP Language and Space, has successfully defended her PhD thesis.
Nour Efrat-Kowalsky has successfully defended her PhD thesis on 29.11.2022.
Manuel Bär has successfully defended his dissertation "Capturing Perceived Everyday Lived Landscapes through Gamification and Active Crowdsourcing" on November 1, 2022.
Nico Neureiter, former PhD student, whose project was funded by the URPP Language and Space, has received the distinction award of the Faculty of Science of UZH for his thesis, entitled "Travelling with speakers through time and space: Spatio-temporal modelling of language change”.
The handbook "Pragmatics of Space", edited by URPP Language and Space members Andreas H. Jucker and Heiko Hausendorf, has been published.
Nico Neureiter successfully defended his dissertation "Travelling with speakers through time and space: Spatio-temporal modelling of language change" on 27.06.2022.
Former URPP Language and Space doctoral student Teodora Vukovic successfully defended her dissertation on June 2, 2022.
The paper "Linguistic traits as heritable units? Spatial Bayesian clustering reveals Swiss German dialect regions" by Noemi Romano, Peter Ranacher, Sandro Bachmann and Stéphane Joost has been published.
VideoGroup director Wolfgang Kesselheim has a new position as "Akademischer Rat" at the University of Greifswald. The position starts on 01.05.2022. The URPP Language and Space congratulates warmly!
Kristina Eiviler hands over the position of ECR representative to Larissa Schmidt as of 01.04.2022. The URPP Language and Space thanks for the tireless efforts.
Christina Brandenberger has successfully defended her PhD on 28.01.2022 on the topic Interaktive Wissenskonstruktion im Science Center: Zur Rolle interaktiver Verfahren der Vermittlung multisensorialer Erfahrungen.
Marie-Luis Merten has received a fellowship at Trier University from 18 to 28 January 2022.
For Kenan Hochuli, the SNSF Early Postdoc.Mobility fellowship starts in San Diego.
URPP Language and Space PhD student Kristina Eiviler, together with Monika Molnar (UZH) and Petra Sidler (FHNW & NCCR - on the move), has won the Swiss Science Film Academy award in the category "Scientists as filmmakers" for the short film "Who is (not) Swiss". Congratulations!
The dissertation of former URPP Language and Space doctoral student David Paul Gerards is awarded the Elise-Richter-Prize of the Deutscher Romanistenverband.
The article with the title "Tapping into People’s Thoughts" reports on reserach within the NCR «Evolving Language».
Humans have been always on the move, creating a complex history of languages and cultural traditions dispersed over the globe. An international team under UZH’s lead has now traced families of related languages over more than 10,000 years by combining data from genetics, linguistics and musicology using novel digital methods. Their findings: grammar reflects best the common prehistory of a population and therefore mirrors genetics more than any other cultural feature.
Link to press release of the UZH from 19.08.2021
Link to publication DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd9223
Matsumae, H., Ranacher, P., Savage, P. E., Blasi, D., Currie, T. E., Sato, T., Koganebuchi, K., Nishida, N., Sato, T., Tanabe, H., Tajima, A., Brown, S., Stoneking, M., Shimizu, K. K., Oota, H., Bickel, B. (2021). Exploring correlations in genetic and cultural variation across language families in Northeast Asia. Science Advances. 18 August 2021.
Contact tracing of a different kind. The latest paper in Royal Society INTERFACE by Peter Ranacher, Nico Neureiter, Rik van Gijn, Barbara Sonnenhauser, Anastasia Escher, Robert Weibel, Pieter Muysken and Balthasar Bickel introduces a novel algorithm for Bayesian clustering in the presence of confounding effects, and shows how it can be used to trace areas of possible spatial contact between different languages. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2020.1031
Tatyana Ruzsics has successfully completet her PhD studies about a Multi-level Modelling for Upstream Text Processing on April 29, 2021. The URPP Language and Space congratulates!
Barbara Sonnenhauser has been elected co-director of the URPP Language and Space on its plenary assembly 26 January 2021. From 1st of February she leads the research association together with Robert Weibel.
For his dissertation on "Bare Partitives in Old Spanish and Old Portuguese", David Gerards receives this year's annual award of the UZH Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
The UZH Senate nominated Professor Elisabeth Stark for the position of Vice President Research at its meeting on 10 December 2020. The Board of the University will finalize her appointment on 21 January 2021.
URPP Language and Space member Christa Dürscheid receives the Konrad-Duden award 2020.
Since 01.10.2020, Ximena Gutierrez is employed as a PostDoc in the SNSF project "Non-randomness in Morphological Diversity: A Computational Approach Based on Multilingual Corpora". She already collaborated as a Swiss Government Excellence Scholar for one year. We are looking forward to further collaboration!
The project "UPgrading the SKIlls of Linguistics and Language Students - UPSKILLS" receives a grant of CHF 92'310 by Movetia.
Carlota de Benito receives an SNSF grant of CHF 994'490 for the project Rural sociolinguistics in the Canary Islands: linguistic innovation and diffusion (RurICan) starting from 1 October 2020.
Kenan Hochuli talks about digital distance learning on the SRF Wissenschafts-Magazin.
Christa Dürscheid talks about challenges of digitization at SRF Kultur Kompakt.
David Gerards successfully completed his PhD project "Bare Partitives in Old Spanish and Old Portuguese" on August 21, 2020. Congratulations!
Innosuisse has awarded a contribution to the preliminary study "Visitor Empowerment: Besucher aktivieren durch sprachwissenschaftlich optimierte Texte", which is being carried out by the Language and Space Lab's VideoGroup and the Technorama.
Alice Idone has successfully defended her PhD thesis "Morfologia e sintassi dell’accordo in calabrese meridionale: il dialetto di Villa San Giovanni (RC)" on 21 July 2020.
The podcast lecture series of the UZH Interdisciplinary Commission deals with the topic Covid-19: The Responsibility of Universities in Times of Global Turmoil. URPP Language and Space members Elisabeth Stark, Johannes Kabatek, Noah Bubenhofer and Heiko Hausendorf contribute.
The project "Architecture-for-interaction", led by Heiko Hausendorf, is mentioned in the UZH News.
Kenan Hochuli, who completed his PhD at the URPP Language and Space last year, receives an Early Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship for San Diego from the SNSF.
The Zürcher Studierendenzeitung informs about Heiko Hausendorf's project "Architecture-for-interaction".
URPP Language and Space member Michele Loporcaro receives an SNSF grant for the project AIS, the digital turn.
URPP Language and Space member Balthasar Bickel was interviewed for the UZH News.
URPP Language and Space member Balthasar Bickel and associate Hanna Ruch are in the latest issue of the UZH magazine.
Johannes Kabatek's project "Mapa del español en Suiza" is presented on swissinfo.ch.
An article about URPP Language and Space member Volker Dellwo was published in the UZH News.
The SNSF Spark project "Multi-modal speech sensing based on 2D and 3D optical and acoustic signals for identity recognition and authentication" starts on 1 February 2020.
Volker Dellwo, Thayabaran Kathiresan and Sascha Frueholz participated at the first joint workshop between University of Zurich and National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo.
Kenan Hochuli, Doktorand im Sprache-Raum-Laboratorium, hat am 19. Dezember 2019 seine Dissertation mit dem Titel "Interactive Processes and Configurations at Market Stalls in Istanbul and Zurich" verteidigt. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
URPP Language and Space PhD student Sandra Winiger has defended her PhD thesis entitled "Multimodale Ausstellungsrezeption von Installationskunst. Eine raum- und interaktionslinguistische Studie zur Ausstellung 'Cloud Cities' von Tomás Saraceno im Hamburger Bahnhof" on 28 November 2019.
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.
URPP Language and Space member Heiko Hausendorf receives an SNSF grant for his project "Interaktion und Architektur: Vergleichende Fallstudien zur Re-Figuration institutioneller Kommunikation".
In fall semester 2019 there are two topical lecture series at the University of Zurich to which URPP Language and Space members contribute.
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).
URPP Language and Space member Christa Dürscheid talks about the online reference work "Variantengrammatik des Standarddeutschen" at Bayrischer Rundfunk.
URPP Language and Space Doctoral Student Nico Neureiter received an UZH Graduate Campus grant.
Angelika Linke, member of the URPP Language and Space, was interviewed at SRF Echo der Zeit regarding the issue of gender-appropriate language.
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.
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.
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.
The Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger reports about Volker Dellwo's work as a voice forensic scientist.
Starting 2019, five internationally renowned experts in linguistics are members of the newly composed Scientific Advisory Board of the URPP Language and Space.
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).
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.
