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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Dear colleagues, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">We are
calling for expressions of interest for conducting PhD research in conjunction
with the Australian Research Council Discovery Project <i>Where Gesture Meets
Grammar: Crosslinguistic Multimodal Communication </i>(<span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP240102369" style="color:blue">DP240102369</a></span>)
based at Monash University in Melbourne. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">We would
appreciate it if you could distribute this among your networks.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Thanks!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Anna</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"><br></span></b></p>

<h3 style="margin:14pt 0cm 4pt;break-after:auto;line-height:115%;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(67,67,67);font-weight:normal"><a name="_xlsgmdv2d3h0"></a><b><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:115%;color:black">The ARC Discovery Project</span></b></h3>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">The project examines diversity and universality in co-speech
gesture, focussing on how speakers of different languages communicate events.
Although we know much about diversity and universals across human languages,
the diversity of co-speech gesture across cultures and social contexts has only
recently been studied systematically (Kita 2009).</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">In order to investigate how grammatical structure, lexical
semantics and politeness conventions shape iconic gestures across languages, we
focus on descriptions of caused motion (e.g., “My mother took my grandfather to
the airport”, “He put the cake in the oven”). Caused motion events are central
to human experience and are conceptually complex. Their expression is sensitive
to social relationships and shows remarkable diversity across languages
(Gullberg 2011, Furman 2012, Furman, Küntay & Özyürek. 2014, Kopeka &
Narasimhan 2012, Hellwig et al. 2022, Margetts et al. 2022), making this domain
ideal for the cross-linguistic investigation of gesture.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">The project compares co-speech gesture in four languages:
Australian English, Korean, Saliba-Loega (an Oceanic language of Papua New
Guinea), and Burarra (a non-Pama–Nyungan language of northern Australia). It
investigates how speakers distribute semantic content across speech and
gesture; especially whether these two modalities express the same/different
content, reflecting cross-linguistic differences in lexicalisation and
syntactic packaging of information (Kita & Özyürek, 2003, Gullberg &
Narasimhan, 2010). We also explore how these gestures vary according to the
social status of event participants and/or speech-act participants (Brown, Kim,
Hübscher, Winter<b> </b>2022).</span></p>

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<h3 style="margin:14pt 0cm 4pt;break-after:auto;line-height:115%;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(67,67,67);font-weight:normal"><a name="_z5wialwtok01"></a><b><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:115%;color:black">The PhD Project</span></b></h3>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">We are seeking expressions of interest from outstanding
student researchers to conduct a PhD project on the expression of caused motion
events in additional languages, or potentially on specialised topics in one of
the project languages. Projects could be based on interactional corpus data or
experimental designs. We envisage the PhD project to be an in-depth study of
one language but comparative/crosslinguistic topics will also be considered. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">PhD projects would be supervised by at least one of the chief
investigators, Anna Margetts, Lucien Brown, and Jill Vaughan, and could be
cosupervised by colleagues in the<a href="https://www.monash.edu/arts/languages-literatures-cultures-linguistics" style="color:blue"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none"> </span></a><u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://www.monash.edu/arts/languages-literatures-cultures-linguistics" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">School of Language, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics</span></a></span></u>
at Monash University. Projects may also be cosupervised by partner investigator
Sotaro Kita at the University of Warwick, especially in the case of a <u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://www.monash.edu/graduate-research/programs-industry/research-degrees/joint-research-awards/university-of-warwick-joint-award" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Monash-Warwick Alliance Joint PhD</span></a></span></u>.
Applications are invited from both Australia and overseas.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Applicants should have a strong background in one or more of
the following areas: linguistic typology, gesture, multimodality of
communication, non-Indo-European languages, working with media data in ELAN,
corpus linguistics, interactional linguistics. 
<span style="background:yellow"></span></span></p>

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<h3 style="margin:14pt 0cm 4pt;break-after:auto;line-height:115%;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(67,67,67);font-weight:normal"><a name="_6ud84tbauccm"></a><b><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:115%;color:black">Scholarships</span></b></h3>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Candidates will apply to the <u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://www.monash.edu/arts/graduate_research/how-to-apply/scholarships" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Monash PhD scholarships</span></a></span></u> or the<a href="https://www.monash.edu/graduate-research/programs-industry/research-degrees/joint-research-awards/university-of-warwick-joint-award" style="color:blue"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none"> </span></a><u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://www.monash.edu/graduate-research/programs-industry/research-degrees/joint-research-awards/university-of-warwick-joint-award" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Monash-Warwick Alliance joint PhD</span></a></span></u>.
These scholarships are competitive.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Applications for the<a href="https://www.monash.edu/study/courses/find-a-course/arts-research-training-a7001?international=true" style="color:blue"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none"> </span></a><u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://www.monash.edu/study/courses/find-a-course/arts-research-training-a7001?international=true" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Master of Arts (Research Training)</span></a></span></u>
or the<a href="https://www.monash.edu/study/courses/find-a-course/arts-2695" style="color:blue"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none"> </span></a><u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://www.monash.edu/study/courses/find-a-course/arts-2695" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Master of Arts</span></a></span></u> can also be
considered, however, scholarship opportunities are more limited.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Please note the entry requirements for admission to the<a href="https://www.monash.edu/graduate-research/study/apply/admission-criteria" style="color:blue"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none"> </span></a><u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://www.monash.edu/graduate-research/study/apply/admission-criteria" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">PhD or Master of Arts</span></a></span></u> and for the<a href="https://www.monash.edu/study/courses/find-a-course/arts-research-training-a7001#entry-requirements-2" style="color:blue"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none"> </span></a><u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://www.monash.edu/study/courses/find-a-course/arts-research-training-a7001#entry-requirements-2" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Master of Arts (Research Training)</span></a></span></u>
at Monash University.</span></p>

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<h3 style="margin:14pt 0cm 4pt;break-after:auto;line-height:115%;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(67,67,67);font-weight:normal"><a name="_6j4hdus6oqb5"></a><b><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:115%;color:black">Submitting an expression of interest</span></b><span style="background:yellow"></span></h3>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Please send your initial expression of interest <b>by 31^st
May</b> including:</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">●<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     
</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Your
research proposal around the linguistic expression of caused motion events
following these<a href="https://www.monash.edu/arts/guidelines" style="color:blue"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none"> </span></a><u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://www.monash.edu/arts/guidelines" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">guidelines</span></a></span></u>.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">●<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     
</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">CV</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">●<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Names of referees</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Please do <i>not</i> apply directly for a Monash scholarship
at this stage</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">. We
need to vet the suitability and scholarship potential for each proposal as well
as supervisor availability before candidates submit an official application.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Send your expression of interest with the subject <b>Caused
Motion PhD enquiry</b> to the project team at <u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:anna.margetts@monash.edu" style="color:blue">anna.margetts@monash.edu</a></span></u>.</span></p>

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<h3 style="margin:14pt 0cm 4pt;break-after:auto;line-height:115%;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(67,67,67);font-weight:normal"><a name="_lu3kx57efqbj"></a><b><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:115%;color:black">References</span></b></h3>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm 12pt 70pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Brown, L., H.
Kim, I. Hübscher, & B. Winter. 2022. Gestures are modulated by social
context: A study of multimodal politeness across two cultures. <i>Gesture</i>
21(2-3), 167-200.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm 12pt 70pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Furman, R.
2012. <i>Caused motion events in Turkish: Verbal and gestural representation in
adults and children</i>. Radboud University Nijmegen/LOT Doctoral dissertation.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm 12pt 70pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Furman, R.,
A. C. Küntay & A. Özyürek. 2014. Early language-specificity of children’s
event encoding in speech and gesture: Evidence from caused motion in Turkish. <i>Language,
Cognition and Neuroscience</i> 29(5), 620-634.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm 12pt 70pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Gullberg, M.
2011. Language-specific encoding of placement events in gestures. In J.
Bohnemeyer & E. Pederson (eds.), <i>Event representation in language and
cognition.</i> Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 166–188.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm 12pt 70pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Gullberg, Marianne & Bhuvana Narasimhan. 2010. What
gestures reveal about how semantic distinctions develop in Dutch children’s
placement verbs. Cognitive Linguistics 21(2). 239–262.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0cm 12pt 70pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Hellwig, B, A. Margetts, S.
Riesberg & M. Schippling. 2022. Bringing and taking: a cross-linguistic
perspective on caused accompanied motion events. In A. Margetts, S. Riesberg
& B. Hellwig (eds.), Caused accompanied motion: Bringing and taking events
in a cross-linguistic perspective (Typological Studies in Language 134), 1–41.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm 12pt 70pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Kita, S. (2009).
Cross-cultural variation of speech-accompanying gesture: A review. </span><i>Language and cognitive processes</i><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">, </span><i>24</i><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">(2), 145-167.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm 12pt 70pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Kita, S., &
Özyürek, A. (2003). What does cross-linguistic variation in semantic
coordination of speech and gesture reveal?: Evidence for an interface
representation of spatial thinking and speaking. </span><i>Journal of Memory and language</i><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">, </span><i>48</i><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">(1), 16-32.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm 12pt 70pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Kopecka, A., & Narasimhan, B. (Eds.) (2012). Events
of putting and taking: A crosslinguistic perspective. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm 12pt 70pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Margetts, A., Haude</span>, K., Himmelmann, N. P., Jung, D., Riesberg, S., Schnell,
S., Seifart, F., Sheppard, H., & Wegener, C. (2022). <span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Cross-linguistic patterns in the
lexicalisation of <i>bring</i> and <i>take</i>. </span><i>Studies in Language.</i><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><i>46</i><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">(4), 934-993.</span></p>

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