Dec 16, 2022: Carlos Silva and Steven Moran present their paper, "Measuring consonant stability in Portuguese-based creoles", at the 14th annual meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typoloy (ALT). Austin, Texas (online).
Nov 26, 2022: Axel Ekström gives talk, "Great ape 'vowels' and where to find them", at the workshop Development and evolution of primate vocal communication, Neuchatel, Switzerland.
Nov 26, 2022: Zifan Jiang gives talk, "Authomatic sound detection of great ape calls using neural networks", at the workshop Development and evolution of primate vocal communication, Neuchatel, Switzerland.
Nov 26, 2022: Steven Moran gives key speaker talk, "EVOPHON: Evolution of phonetics and phonology", at the workshop Development and evolution of primate vocal communication, Neuchatel, Switzerland.
Sep 8, 2022: Steven Moran, Quentin Gallot, Auriane LeFloch, Marco Maiolini, Adrian Soldati and Klaus Zuberbühler publish, "Linguistic laws in primate vocal communication", in the Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE 2022).
Sep 6, 2022: Quentin Gallot gives a talk, "Great ape vocal repertoires are all similar in size: now what?", at the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE 2022). Kanazawa, Japan.
Sep 5, 2022: Quentin Gallot gives a talk, "Linguistic laws in primate vocal communication", at the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE 2022). Kanazawa, Japan.
June 21, 2022: Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques gives a talk, "TeDDi Sample: Text Data Diversity Sample for Language Comparison and Multilingual NLP", at the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2022). Marseille, France.
Feb 22, 2022: Steven Moran gives a talk, "Are some speech sounds older than others?", for the Anthropology Department at the University of Miami, Miami, USA (online).
Dec 8, 2021: Carlos Silva and Steven Moran present their paper, "Stability drivers in the emergence of Portuguese-based creoles", at the Fifth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology. Edinburgh, Scotland (online).
Dec 4, 2021: Steven Moran gives an invited presentation, "Impacts of biology and language contact on the worldwide diversity of speech sounds", at the 6th annual symposium of the DFG Center for Advanced Studies "Words, Bones, Genes, Tools". Biological Implications: an agenda for integrative approaches. Tübingen, Germany (online).
Nov 4, 2021: Steven Moran gives an invited presentation, "Human speech sounds: three evolutionary timelines", at the Linguistics Colloquium, California State University, Fresno (online).
Sep 2, 2021: Steven Moran gives a keynote presentation, "Inferring recent evolutionary changes in speech sounds", at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. With Nicholas A. Lester and Eitan Grossman.
July 20, 2021: Steven Moran gives an invited presentation, "Human speech sounds: three evolutionary timelines", at the Oberseminar in the Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, University of Tübingen (online).
July 7, 2021: Steven Moran and Eitan Grossman present their paper, "Temporal bias: a new kind of bias for typologists to worry about", at the 5th Usage-Based Linguistics conference, Tel Aviv, Israel (online).
July 5, 2021: Elad Eisen, Eitan Grossman, Steven Moran and Dmitry Nikolaev present their paper, "Defining and operationalizing 'borrowability' in phonology", at the 5th Usage-Based Linguistics conference, Tel Aviv, Israel (online).
May 26, 2021: Elad Eisen, Dmitry Nikolaev, Eitan Grossman and Steven Moran present their paper, "Defining and operationalizing 'borroability' in phonology", at the 28th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK (online).
Feb 24, 2021: Steven Moran gives an invited presentation, "Investigating the evolution of speech sounds", at the Higher Seminar in Diversity Linguistics, University of Stockholm (online).
Feb 19, 2021: Steven Moran is featured in the Winter Newsletter of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Washington.
Feb 18, 2021: Steven Moran gives an invited presentation, "Evolution of speech sounds", at the Workshop on learnability and typology on the occasion of Klaas Seinhorst's PhD defense, University of Amsterdam (online).
Jan 27, 2021: Steven Moran is an invited guest lecturer (online) in Professor Andrey Filchenko's Languages of Eurasia course (School of Sciences and Humanities, Nazarbayev University, Republic of Kazakhstan).
Nov 25, 2020: Steven Moran is an invited guest lecturer in Professor Werner Müller's course Human Evolution (Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel).
Nov 19, 2020: Steven Moran gives an invited presentation, "How did speech evolve?", at the Cognitive Science Seminar, University of Neuchâtel.
Oct 1, 2020: The SNSF funded EVOPHON project (2020--2025) officially begins.
