[CS] Fwd: [CUNY2012] [AMLaP-list]: 3 PhD-students for foreign speech comprehension
Joanna Morris
jmorris at hampshire.edu
Mon Apr 2 18:24:16 EDT 2012
PhD openings in Psycholinguistics at Radboud University in the Netherlands.
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> From: Mirjam Ernestus <Mirjam.Ernestus at mpi.nl>
> Date: 6 March 2012 12:46:04 PM CST
> To: Heather Ferguson <H.Ferguson at kent.ac.uk>
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> Subject: [CUNY2012] [AMLaP-list]: 3 PhD-students for foreign speech comprehension
>
> Three PhD Students for Foreign Speech Comprehension (1,0 fte)
>
> Faculty of Arts, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
> Maximum salary: 2,612 gross/month
> Vacancy number: 23.09.12
> Closing date: 15 April 2012
>
>
> Responsibilities
> As a PhD student you will participate in one of two research projects on
> how non-native listeners learn and process reduced pronunciation variants
> that are highly frequent in spontaneous speech (e.g. English mis instead
> of mist). One project is funded by a Starting Grant from the European
> Research Council, other by a VICI Grant from the Netherlands Organization
> for Scientific Research. Both projects are directed by Professor Mirjam
> Ernestus. You will write at least three papers on the basis of this
> research for high-impact international journals.
>
> General descriptions of the project:
> The ERC and VICI projects investigate in detail how adult learners of a
> foreign language develop and use lexical representations for reduced
> pronunciation variants and how their listening skills can be improved. The
> projects aim at providing a first theory of how listeners learn to
> understand words in conversational speech in a foreign language.
>
> PhD project E1 will investigate the nature of lexical representations that
> advanced late learners have developed for reduced variants in their
> foreign language, how they use these representations, and how this can be
> improved. It will study how native speakers of Dutch process vowel
> devoicing and categorical deletion of schwa in French.
>
> PhD project E2 will investigate advanced late learners' sensitivities to
> subtle details of speech signals which act as cues to reduced sounds and
> how their comprehension of words can be improved with these subtle cues.
> It will study how native speakers of Spanish process gradient reduction of
> schwa and of word-final consonant clusters in English.
>
> PhD project V1 will investigate how starting learners store phonetic
> details of reduced pronunciation variants in their lexical
> representations, how these representations develop over time, and the role
> of the native language therein. It will study how Dutch and Spanish young
> adults learn pronunciation variants with reduced vowels in English and
> French.
>
> Work environment
> Radboud University Nijmegen is strategically located in Europe and is one
> of the leading academic communities in the Netherlands. Established in
> 1923 and situated in the oldest city of the Netherlands, it has nine
> faculties and enrolls over 17,500 students in 107 study programmes.
>
> The Faculty of Arts consists of ten departments in the areas of language
> and culture, history of arts, linguistics and business communication,
> which together cater for about 2,700 students and collaborate closely in
> teaching and research. Research at the Faculty of Arts is embedded in two
> research institutes: the institute for Historical, Literary and Cultural
> Studies (HCLS) and the Centre for Language Studies (CLS).
>
> Your research will be embedded in the Centre for Language Studies at the
> Faculty of Arts. Research at the CLS is centred around two themes. The
> current project is in line with the theme 'Language in Mind'.
>
> What we expect from you
> - you should have, or shortly expect to obtain an MSc degree in an area
> related to speech processing: such as psychology, cognitive neurosciences,
> phonetics, or linguistics;
> - you should have an excellent written and spoken command of English and
> demonstrable knowledge of data analysis;
> - you should be able to quickly learn new research methods and data
> analysis methods.
>
> What we have to offer
> We offer you:
> - employment: 1,0 fte;
> - a maximum gross monthly salary of 2,612 based on a 38-hour working
> week;
> - in addition to the salary: an 8% holiday allowance and an 8.3%
> end-of-year bonus;
> - the gross starting salary is 2,042 per month based on full-time
> employment;
> - you will be offered an initial contract for 18 months. Your performance
> will be evaluated after 18 months and if the evaluation is positive, the
> contract will be extended by 24 months;
> - you will be classified as a PhD student (promovendus) in the Dutch
> university job-ranking system (UFO);
> - available as of 1 September 2012.
>
> Are you interested in our excellent employment conditions?
>
> Would you like to know more?
> Further information on: Centre for Language Studies
>
> Prof. Dr. Mirjam Ernestus
> Telephone: +31 24 3612970
> E-mail: m.ernestus at let.ru.nl
>
> Applications
> Are you interested?
> It is Radboud University Nijmegen's policy to only accept applications by
> e-mail. Please send your application, stating vacancy number 23.09.12, to
> vacatures at let.ru.nl, for the attention of drs. L.J.P.M. van Mosseveld,
> before 15 April 2012.
>
> No commercial propositions please.
>
> see: http://www.ru.nl/vacatures/details/details_vacature_0?recid=508060
>
>
>
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>
> Mirjam Ernestus
>
> Radboud University Nijmegen &
> Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
>
> P.O. Box 310
> 6500 AH Nijmegen
> The Netherlands
> tel: +31-24-3612970
>
> www.mirjamernestus.nl
>
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