<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><meta charset="utf-8"><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: 2em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;">PhD post: Université Paris-Diderot (Paris 7)---language acquisition, dialogue, semantics, machine learning </span></h1><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; ">Applicants are invited for a full time PhD post to work within the 10-year project Labaratory of Excellence (LabEx) "Empirical foundations of linguistics" ( <a href="http://www.labex-efl.org/)">http://www.labex-efl.org/)</a>. The candidate will work in Strand 4: Language representation and processing in a lifespan perspective.</span></h1><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; ">The successful applicant, who will be based at the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (LLF), Université Paris-Diderot (Paris 7) ( <a href="http://www.llf.cnrs.fr">http://www.llf.cnrs.fr</a> ) . She or he should have qualifications in linguistics, computer science, or psycholinguistics at the Master's level or equivalent.</span></h1><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; ">The thesis, which can be written in English, will involve research within a project developing a model of language acquisition that integrates parent-child interaction as part of the primary data. The empirical basis will be corpus studies of multimodal child-parent interaction. Modelling will involve developing techniques that integrate dialogue modelling and machine learning as the basis for a theory of how grammar emerges at the very early stages of language acquisition. Research will also involve development of grammars for early child utterances and induction algorithms that will allow such grammars to change on the basis of interactions. The applicant will be working in an international interdisciplinary research team.</span></h1><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; ">Applicants will be assessed by committee from the LabEx EFL. The main emphasis of the assessment will be on the applicant's potential for research, as evident from: Master's thesis or equivalent other scholarly works.</span></h1><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;">Please attach with your application: </span></h1><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;">- letter of application</span></div><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;">- CV</span></h1><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;">- two names of referees (with email address)</span></h1><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;">- web address with publications. </span></h1><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;">Contact: Jonathan Ginzburg</span></h1><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;">Contact email: yonatan.ginzburg_at_univ-paris-diderot.fr</span></h1><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;">Duration:36 months starting september 2012</span></h1><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;">Salary: in accordance with the French state regulated PhD salary scale</span></h1><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;">Application deadline: 10/04/2012</span></h1><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;">Application email: thierry.nazzi_at_parisdescartes.fr</span></h1><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;">Application reference: EFL-OLA8</span></h1><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><br></span></h1><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;">----</span></h1><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;">Yonatan Ginzburg</span></h1><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><a href="mailto:yonatan.ginzburg@univ-paris-diderot.fr">yonatan.ginzburg@univ-paris-diderot.fr</a></span></h1><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/jonathanginzburgswebsite/">https://sites.google.com/site/jonathanginzburgswebsite/</a></span></h1><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><br></h1></span></h1></span></h1></body></html>