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