Student Position for Speaker of Celtic language.

[Andrew Carnie]

I'm forwarding the following message on behalf fo Mirjam Ernestus. She 
tells me that she's particularly interested in a speaker of a Celtic 
language. It's a funded Ph.D. student position at the University of 
Nijmegen. If you know of a qualified student, please encourage them to 
apply. Please write to Dr. Ernestus directly for further information. I'm 
just forwarding the message.

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Position for a PhD-student in the Netherlands

The European project Acoustic reduction in European languages is now 
offering a position
for a PhD-student interested in the phonetics and linguistics of a 
European language
OTHER than Dutch, English, German, French or Spanish. The position will be 
fully funded
for three and a half years and be located in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

The PhD-project will be part of a larger project investigating how 
speakers and listeners
process acoustically reduced words, such as the pronunciation "yesay" for 
"yesterday" and
"onry" for ordinary", in several European languages. The PhD-student will 
investigate
acoustic reduction in a European language other than Dutch, English, 
German, French or
Spanish and explore which types of reduction occur in this language, and 
how the
production and comprehension of reduced words are affected by the 
morphological and
phonological properties of this language. Essential to this research 
program are corpora
of highly spontaneous speech, which will have to be compiled in the course 
of this
project. Complementary to corpus based research, the processing of 
acoustic reduction
will be addressed by means of psycholinguistic experiments.The PhD student 
will
collaborate closely with the principal investigator of the project, Dr M. 
Ernestus. In
addition, the PhD-student will be supported in his/her research (including 
the
compilation of the speech corpora) by a team of research assistants.

The project is funded by a European Young Investigator award, as well as 
by the Max
Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and by the Radboud University. The 
research group
is located in the building of the Max Planck Institute, on the campus of 
the Radboud
University, in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. This location guarantees a 
stimulating research
environment with excellent experimental facilities. It offers researchers 
the possibility
to develop interdisciplinary skills and to discuss their work with many 
internationally
renowned scholars.

Applicants should be (near-)native in the European language they wish to 
investigate
(which should be a language other than Dutch, English, German, French or 
Spanish) and
also be fluent in English. They should have a master's degree in 
linguistics or
phonetics, or receive one within a few months. Moreover, applicants should 
have a basic
knowledge of the phonology, phonetics, and morphology of their language 
and have
familiarity with statistics (or be willing to learn statistics). The 
successful candidate
will receive a contract for three and a half years at the Radboud 
University Nijmegen
(www.ru.nl), under the conditions for PhD-students at this university.

For further information, including a description of the complete project,
please contact Mirjam Ernestus (mirjam.ernestus at mpi.nl, phone: 
+31-24-3612970).

Application letters, including extensive CVs, should arrive as soon as 
possible,
addressed to
         Mirjam Ernestus
         P.O. Box 310
         NL-6500 AH Nijmegen
         The Netherlands
or to
         mirjam.ernestus at mpi.nl


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