<div dir="ltr"><div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:0px;font-size:12.16px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:19.456px"><h1 style="margin:0px 0px 3px;padding:2px 0px 0px;border:0px none;outline:0px;font-weight:normal;font-style:inherit;font-size:1.8em;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,46,95)">2 PhD positions in Linguistics</h1></div><div class="gmail-content-block-inner gmail-" style="margin:0px 0px 2px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:0px;font-size:12.16px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;vertical-align:baseline;min-height:1px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:19.456px"><div class="gmail-clear-float" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:0px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;clear:both;line-height:0;width:1px;height:0px"></div><div class="gmail-pre" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:12.16px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:0px;font-weight:bold;font-style:inherit;font-size:10.944px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:17.5104px;min-width:200px;max-width:480px"><span style="font-size:10.944px;font-style:inherit;line-height:17.5104px"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:0px;font-weight:bold;font-style:inherit;font-size:10.944px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:17.5104px;min-width:200px;max-width:480px"><span style="font-size:10.944px;font-style:inherit;line-height:17.5104px">The Department of Linguistics announces 2 PhD student positions within the fields of Child Language Development and Linguistic Typology and Language Documentation. Ref.nr SU FV-2638-16. </span><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:0px;font-weight:bold;font-style:inherit;font-size:10.944px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:17.5104px;min-width:200px;max-width:480px"><span style="font-size:10.944px;font-style:inherit;line-height:17.5104px"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:0px;font-weight:bold;font-style:inherit;font-size:10.944px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:17.5104px;min-width:200px;max-width:480px"><span style="font-size:10.944px;font-style:inherit;line-height:17.5104px">Application deadline: 2016-10-15.</span><br></p></div><div class="gmail-articleBody" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:12.16px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><h3 style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px 4px;border:0px none;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:1.1em;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,46,95)"><span style="font-size:1.2em;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit">Child Language Development</span><br></h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:12.16px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:19.456px;min-width:200px;max-width:480px">The PhD student position in Child Language Development/Child Language Acquisition is associated to the child language acquisition research group in the Department of Linguistics at Stockholm University.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:12.16px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:19.456px;min-width:200px;max-width:480px">The child language acquisition research competence at the Department encompasses different research approaches to child language acquisition as well as different theoretical and methodological aspects. This creates a unique knowledge centre to which the successful doctoral candidate is expected to contribute actively. The research group aims to describe how children acquire language in interaction with the environment. Which modalities are used? How are these used? Can we model the process? Current research questions are on multimodal parent-child communication, features of child-directed speech, and the relationship between perception and production. The Department’s Phonetic Laboratory considers a broad range of perspectives on child language acquisition and is equipped with facilities for EEG-measurement, eye-tracking measurement, tracking of articulatory movements and audio and video recordings.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:12.16px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:19.456px;min-width:200px;max-width:480px">The child language research group meets regularly, reviews their research products together and collaborates actively in various studies in-house as well as with the international research field. The focus of the doctoral student’s thesis work is expected to be in line with current research and to use, at least partially, existing material of different research projects.</p><h2 style="margin:0px;padding:3px 0px 4px;border:0px none;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:1.2em;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,46,95)">Linguistic typology and language documentation</h2><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:12.16px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:19.456px;min-width:200px;max-width:480px">This position is associated with the department’s strong research profile in linguistic typology, language documentation and related aspects in the study of linguistic diversity. The dissertation should therefore be theoretically and methodologically linked to one of those focal areas of research, and be based on empirical material derived from one or more languages, preferably with a cross-linguistic or diachronic perspective. This could, for instance, take the shape of a cross-linguistic and systematic comparison of a particular phenomenon or a grammatical construction, by means of a sample, either with an areal, world-wide or a language-family scope. It could also be in the form of a fieldwork-based and typologically informed treatment of an individual undocumented or lesser studied language, alternatively focusing on a particular aspect of the language system. (For our policy on funding of fieldwork, please see separate documentation.)</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:12.16px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:19.456px;min-width:200px;max-width:480px">In addition to courses and dissertation work, the applicant is expected to participate in departmental activities, such as seminars and regular meetings held with the research group, and in that way contribute to a positive research environment.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:12.16px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:19.456px;min-width:200px;max-width:480px"><strong>Application is made through the electronic application interface. Admission requirements and selection criteria are stated in the announcement.</strong></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:12.16px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:19.456px;min-width:200px;max-width:480px"><strong>Link to the electronic application interface and the announcement:</strong><a href="http://www.su.se/english/about/vacancies/vacancies-new-list?rmpage=job&rmjob=1913&rmlang=UK" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:12.16px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(125,125,125)">http://www.su.se/english/about/vacancies/vacancies-new-list?rmpage=job&rmjob=1913&rmlang=UK</a></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:12.16px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:19.456px;min-width:200px;max-width:480px"><span style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:12px;line-height:normal">For more information, please contact Sofia Gustafson-Capkova, Director of Doctoral Studies, telephone: +46 8 16 34 88, </span><a href="mailto:studierektorfu@ling.su.se" target="_blank" style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;color:rgb(0,91,127);font-size:12px;line-height:normal">studierektorfu@ling.su.se</a><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:12.16px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:19.456px;min-width:200px;max-width:480px"><br></p></div></div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">============================================================<br>Ljuba Veselinova, Associate Professor<br>Dept of Linguistics, Stockholm University, <span style="font-size:12.8px">S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden</span></div><div dir="ltr">Phone: +46-8-16-2332 Fax: +46-8-15 5389<br>URL  : <a href="http://www.ling.su.se/ljuba.veselinova" target="_blank">http://www.ling.su.se/ljuba.veselinova</a><div><div><br>"We learn by going where we want to go."<br>                                          Julia Cameron<br>======================================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