<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Languages carve up the world differently into named categories -- what is the nature of this variation and how does it arise? We have a funded PhD position for a student who'd like to study these questions from a computational perspective. The position is based at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and supervised jointly by Charles Kemp (Psychology) and Trevor Cohn (Computer Science).</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Potential students with backgrounds in linguistics, computer science, or computational cognitive science are all encouraged to apply.</span><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:18px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Please email Charles (<a href="mailto:c.kemp@unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank">c.kemp@unimelb.edu.au</a>) for more information.</font></span></p></div>
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