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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This message was shared via LingTyp, the Linguist List and other channels earlier this month, and so we hope it has reached many of you already, but we thought it couldn’t hurt to share it here too.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Eline Visser & Marian Klamer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics invites applications for Two fully funded PhD positions in Descriptive/Documentary Linguistics in Indonesia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Starting date: Between February-July 2027; exact date to be determined by mutual agreement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Application deadline: October 25, 2026. Interviews will take place in the first half of November 2026.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The two PhD positions will be part of the NWO project ‘Usku and Banda: Automated Documentation of Endangered Languages of Eastern Indonesia’ and they will each work on the documentation and description of one of these
small, unwritten endangered languages in eastern Indonesia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For both Usku and Banda, the aim is to develop, in close collaboration with the speaker community, a documentary record of linguistic practices in the form of a rich, naturalistic text collection and an extensive word
list (lexicon). The transcribed and annotated lexicon and corpus will form the basis of the grammatical analysis of the language’s phonology, morphology and syntax.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In the course of their documentation activities, both PhDs will test and evaluate the various AI tools that are being developed by the senior team members to carry out automated tasks of transcription, translation, morphological
segmentation and glossing of data from small and under-documented languages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Tasks and responsibilities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> * Collecting audio-visual linguistic and cultural data through fieldwork in Indonesia;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> * Transcribing, annotating, analysing and archiving naturalistic language data;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> * Testing and evaluating tools for automated linguistic data annotation and analysis;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> * Presenting (joint) research results at workshops and conferences;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> * Publishing (joint) research results and writing a PhD-thesis within the period of appointment;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> * (Assisting in) teaching activities at bachelor level;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> * (Assisting in) the organisation of knowledge dissemination activities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> * Participating in meetings and training sessions of the project research group<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Selection criteria<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> * A Master’s degree in linguistics, completed before the start date;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> * Demonstrated interest in language documentation, field linguistics, descriptive linguistics or similar;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> * Excellent research and academic English skills;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> * Working knowledge of Indonesian, or willingness to acquire this within the first half year of the project;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> * A strong cooperative attitude and interest to engage in collaborative research;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> * Fieldwork experience in a non-western context is a plus;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> * Preference will be given to candidates from Indonesia in cases of equal suitability.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For details on how to apply and more information about the project and Leiden University, see:
</span><a href="https://www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/363844/two-phd-candidates-descriptivedocumentary-linguistics-in-indonesia/"><span lang="EN-US">https://www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/363844/two-phd-candidates-descriptivedocumentary-linguistics-in-indonesia/</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Questions?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For further information on the research project and the PhD positions please contact the PI, Marian Klamer,
</span><a href="https://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp"><span lang="EN-US">m.a.f.klamer at hum.leidenuniv.nl.</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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