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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The ISLE Institute invites applications for a PhD position in a project that probes the neural correlates for sentence planning cross-linguistically. The project is embedded
in the NCCR Evolving Language (</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(150, 96, 125);"><u><a href="http://www.evolvinglanguage.ch/" target="_blank" data-outlook-id="1c0a4495-891e-44be-b342-1e3879a373a7" style="color: rgb(150, 96, 125); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">www.evolvinglanguage.ch</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">),
a Swiss consortium with the ambitious goal of creating a new discipline, Evolutionary Language Science, that targets the past and future of language and draws on expertise from the social, natural, and computational sciences. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">You will design and conduct neurolinguistic experiments that improve our understanding of sentence planning processes as conditioned by maximally diverse languages. Based on
these you are expected to complete within 4 years 3 PhD dissertation papers together with your supervisors and potentially other contributors from the lab, the institute, or the NCCR consortium (as the need and/or interest arises). You will determine the choice
of languages with your supervisor based on the specific research question but we generally prefer areas where we already have active research collaborations in psycho-/neurolinguistics (Nepal, Vietnam, Peru, and the Philippines). </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">You have a background in linguistics, psycholinguistics or cognitive neuroscience, with a Master’s degree on a related topic and have good skills in data science (e.g. scripting
in R or Python) and statistics. Additional assets are experience with EEG (or eye-tracking), and/or experience with fieldwork on underprivileged languages. Candidates which lack one or both of these experiences are expected to have strong motivation to learn
at the beginning of the PhD project. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We greatly value team science, and you are expected to have excellent communication and collaboration skills. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>What we offer</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">You will be integrated into the Distributional Linguistics Lab at the ISLE Institute<br>
(</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(150, 96, 125);"><u><a href="https://www.isle.uzh.ch/en/DLL.html" data-outlook-id="c00e9866-54b3-44bb-8144-3a5950db96d1" style="color: rgb(150, 96, 125); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">www.isle.uzh.ch/en/DLL.html</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">)
and will work closely together with similarly-interested researchers in the NCCR. Your dissertation work will be supervised by Professor Balthasar Bickel and Dr. Laura Giglio. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Start of employment</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">1 March 2026 or later</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Further information</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Review of applications will begin in February 2026 and continue until the position is filled. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">For further information on how to apply please see
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(150, 96, 125);"><u><a href="https://www.isle.uzh.ch/en/jobs/phd-cross-linguistic-sentence-planning.html" data-outlook-id="4903b627-018e-4540-bd58-28700b48b885" style="color: rgb(150, 96, 125); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://www.isle.uzh.ch/en/jobs/phd-cross-linguistic-sentence-planning.html</a></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of
</span><span style="font-family: aptos, sans-serif;">Language</span><span style="font-family: aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: aptos, sans-serif;">Evolution (ISLE)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: aptos, sans-serif;">University of Zurich</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: aptos, sans-serif;">8050 Zurich</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: aptos, sans-serif;">lena.zipp@uzh.ch</span></p>
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