My research explores the biological roots of human language in animal vocal communication,  with a special focus on emotional voice intonation. To do so, I combine work in philosophy of language, biology and psycholinguistics within a unified frame of study.

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Current positions @ University of Zurich

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• Forschungskredit post-doctoral fellow at the Dept. of Comparative Language Science 

• Postdoc at the Dept. of Philosophy  - Transversal Task Force "Conceptual Engineering" (National Center of Competence in Research "Evolving Language")

• Member of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language (ISLE) of the University of Zurich