Oferta de trabajo: Spanish, French & Psycholinguistics: PhD Student, Radboud Univ., Nijmegen, Netherlands

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Oferta de trabajo:
French, Spanish & Psycholinguistics: PhD Student
Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

Información de Mirjam Ernestus <mirjam.ernestus at mpi.nl>
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Institution/Organization: Radboud University Nijmegen
Department: Center for Language Studies
Web Address: http://www.ru.nl
Level: PhD
Duties: Project Work
Specialty Areas: Morphology; Phonetics; Phonology; Psycholinguistics
Required Language(s): French (fra), Spanish (spa)

Description:
The European project 'Acoustic reduction in European languages' 
investigates how speakers and listeners process acoustically 
reduced words, such as the pronunciation 'yesay' for 'yesterday' 
and 'onry' for ordinary', in six European languages (Dutch, 
English, Estonian, Finnish, French, and Spanish). Essential to 
this research program are corpora of highly spontaneous speech, 
which exist for English and Dutch, but which will have to be 
compiled for Estonian, Finnish, French, and Spanish in the course 
of this project. Complementary to corpus based research, the 
processing of acoustic reduction will be addressed by means of 
series of psycholinguistic experiments.

The project has as its principal investigator Dr M. Ernestus. It 
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.

The project is now offering a position for a PhD-student who will 
investigate acoustic reduction in French and Spanish. The 
PhD-student will explore which types of reduction occur in these 
languages, and how the production and comprehension of reduced 
words are affected by the morphological and phonological 
properties of these languages. At a more general level, the PhD 
student will compare synchronic reduction in modern Spanish with 
the diachronic reduction that has occurred in French.

The PhD student will collaborate closely with the principal 
investigator. 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.

Applicants should be (near-)native in French and 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 French and Spanish. The 
successful candidate will receive a contract for three and a half 
years at the Radboud University Nijmegen, under the conditions 
for PhD-students at this university.

Application Deadline: 31-May-2007

Mailing Address for Applications:
    Attn: Dr Mirjam Ernestus
    P.O. Box 310
    Nijmegen NL-6500 AH
    Netherlands

Contact Information:
    Dr Mirjam Ernestus
    mirjam.ernestus at mpi.nl
    Phone:+31-243612970
    Fax:+31-243521213

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