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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">We are
calling for expressions of interest for conducting PhD research in conjunction
with the Australian Research Council Discovery Project <i>Where Gesture Meets
Grammar: Crosslinguistic Multimodal Communication </i>(<span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP240102369" style="color:blue">DP240102369</a></span>)
based at Monash University in Melbourne. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">We would appreciate it if you could distribute this among your networks.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Thanks, </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Anna</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"><br></span></p>

</h2><h3 style="margin:14pt 0cm 4pt;break-after:auto;line-height:115%;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(67,67,67);font-weight:normal"><a name="_xlsgmdv2d3h0"></a><b><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:115%;color:black">The ARC Discovery Project</span></b></h3><h2 style="margin:14pt 0cm 6pt;text-align:justify;break-after:auto;line-height:115%;font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">The
project examines diversity and universality in co-speech gesture, focussing on
how speakers of different languages communicate events. Although we know much
about diversity and universals across human languages, the diversity of
co-speech gesture across cultures and social contexts has only recently been
studied systematically (Kita 2009).</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">In
order to investigate how grammatical structure, lexical semantics and
politeness conventions shape iconic gestures across languages, we focus on
descriptions of caused motion (e.g., “My mother took my grandfather to the
airport”, “He put the cake in the oven”). Caused motion events are central to
human experience and are conceptually complex. Their expression is sensitive to
social relationships and shows remarkable diversity across languages (Gullberg
2011, Furman 2012, Furman, Küntay & Özyürek. 2014, Kopeka & Narasimhan
2012, Hellwig et al. 2022, Margetts et al. 2022), making this domain ideal for
the cross-linguistic investigation of gesture.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">The
project compares co-speech gesture in four languages: Australian English,
Korean, Saliba-Loega (an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea), and Burarra (a
non-Pama–Nyungan language of northern Australia). It investigates how speakers
distribute semantic content across speech and gesture; especially whether these
two modalities express the same/different content, reflecting cross-linguistic
differences in lexicalisation and syntactic packaging of information (Kita
& Özyürek, 2003, Gullberg & Narasimhan, 2010). We also explore how
these gestures vary according to the social status of event participants and/or
speech-act participants (Brown, Kim, Hübscher, Winter<b> </b>2022).</span></p>

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</h2><h3 style="margin:14pt 0cm 4pt;break-after:auto;line-height:115%;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(67,67,67);font-weight:normal"><a name="_z5wialwtok01"></a><b><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:115%;color:black">The PhD Project</span></b></h3><h2 style="margin:14pt 0cm 6pt;text-align:justify;break-after:auto;line-height:115%;font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">We are
seeking expressions of interest from outstanding student researchers to conduct
a PhD project on the expression of caused motion events in additional
languages, or potentially on specialised topics in one of the project
languages. Projects could be based on interactional corpus data or experimental
designs. We envisage the PhD project to be an in-depth study of one language
but comparative/crosslinguistic topics will also be considered. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">PhD
projects would be supervised by at least one of the chief investigators, Anna
Margetts, Lucien Brown, and Jill Vaughan, and could be cosupervised by colleagues
in the<a href="https://www.monash.edu/arts/languages-literatures-cultures-linguistics" style="color:blue"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none"> </span></a><u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://www.monash.edu/arts/languages-literatures-cultures-linguistics" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">School of Language, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics</span></a></span></u>
at Monash University. Projects may also be cosupervised by partner investigator
Sotaro Kita at the University of Warwick, especially in the case of a <u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://www.monash.edu/graduate-research/programs-industry/research-degrees/joint-research-awards/university-of-warwick-joint-award" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Monash-Warwick Alliance Joint PhD</span></a></span></u>.
Applications are invited from both Australia and overseas.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Applicants
should have a strong background in one or more of the following areas:
linguistic typology, gesture, multimodality of communication, non-Indo-European
languages, working with media data in ELAN, corpus linguistics, interactional
linguistics.  </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Candidates
will apply to the <u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://www.monash.edu/arts/graduate_research/how-to-apply/scholarships" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Monash PhD scholarships</span></a></span></u> or the<a href="https://www.monash.edu/graduate-research/programs-industry/research-degrees/joint-research-awards/university-of-warwick-joint-award" style="color:blue"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none"> </span></a><u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://www.monash.edu/graduate-research/programs-industry/research-degrees/joint-research-awards/university-of-warwick-joint-award" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Monash-Warwick Alliance joint PhD</span></a></span></u>.
These scholarships are competitive.</span></p>

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for the<a href="https://www.monash.edu/study/courses/find-a-course/arts-research-training-a7001?international=true" style="color:blue"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none"> </span></a><u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://www.monash.edu/study/courses/find-a-course/arts-research-training-a7001?international=true" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Master of Arts (Research Training)</span></a></span></u>
or the<a href="https://www.monash.edu/study/courses/find-a-course/arts-2695" style="color:blue"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none"> </span></a><u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://www.monash.edu/study/courses/find-a-course/arts-2695" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Master of Arts</span></a></span></u> can also be
considered, however, scholarship opportunities are more limited.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Please
note the entry requirements for admission to the<a href="https://www.monash.edu/graduate-research/study/apply/admission-criteria" style="color:blue"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none"> </span></a><u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://www.monash.edu/graduate-research/study/apply/admission-criteria" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">PhD or Master of Arts</span></a></span></u> and for the<a href="https://www.monash.edu/study/courses/find-a-course/arts-research-training-a7001#entry-requirements-2" style="color:blue"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none"> </span></a><u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://www.monash.edu/study/courses/find-a-course/arts-research-training-a7001#entry-requirements-2" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Master of Arts (Research Training)</span></a></span></u>
at Monash University.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Please
send your initial expression of interest <b>by 31^st May</b>
including:</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">●<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Your research proposal around the
linguistic expression of caused motion events following these<a href="https://www.monash.edu/arts/guidelines" style="color:blue"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none"> </span></a><u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://www.monash.edu/arts/guidelines" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">guidelines</span></a></span></u>.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Please
do <i>not</i> apply directly for a Monash scholarship at this stage</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">. We need to vet the suitability and
scholarship potential for each proposal as well as supervisor availability
before candidates submit an official application.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Send
your expression of interest with the subject <b>Caused Motion PhD enquiry</b>
to the project team at <u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:anna.margetts@monash.edu" style="color:blue">anna.margetts@monash.edu</a></span></u>.</span></p>

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</h2><h3 style="margin:14pt 0cm 4pt;break-after:auto;line-height:115%;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(67,67,67);font-weight:normal"><a name="_lu3kx57efqbj"></a><b><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:115%;color:black">References</span></b></h3><h2 style="margin:14pt 0cm 6pt;text-align:justify;break-after:auto;line-height:115%;font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm 12pt 70pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt">Brown, L., H. Kim, I. Hübscher,
& B. Winter. 2022. Gestures are modulated by social context: A study of
multimodal politeness across two cultures. <i>Gesture</i> 21(2-3), 167-200.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm 12pt 70pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt">Furman, R. 2012. <i>Caused
motion events in Turkish: Verbal and gestural representation in adults and
children</i>. Radboud University Nijmegen/LOT Doctoral dissertation.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm 12pt 70pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt">Furman, R., A. C. Küntay &
A. Özyürek. 2014. Early language-specificity of children’s event encoding in
speech and gesture: Evidence from caused motion in Turkish. <i>Language,
Cognition and Neuroscience</i> 29(5), 620-634.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm 12pt 70pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt">Gullberg, M. 2011.
Language-specific encoding of placement events in gestures. In J. Bohnemeyer
& E. Pederson (eds.), <i>Event representation in language and cognition.</i>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm 12pt 70pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt">Gullberg,
Marianne & Bhuvana Narasimhan. 2010. What gestures reveal about how
semantic distinctions develop in Dutch children’s placement verbs. Cognitive
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm 12pt 70pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt">Hellwig, B, A. Margetts, S.
Riesberg & M. Schippling. 2022. Bringing and taking: a cross-linguistic
perspective on caused accompanied motion events. In A. Margetts, S. Riesberg
& B. Hellwig (eds.), Caused accompanied motion: Bringing and taking events
in a cross-linguistic perspective (Typological Studies in Language 134), 1–41.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm 12pt 70pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt">Kita,
S. (2009). Cross-cultural variation of speech-accompanying gesture: A review. <i>Language
and cognitive processes</i>, <i>24</i>(2), 145-167.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm 12pt 70pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt">Kita,
S., & Özyürek, A. (2003). What does cross-linguistic variation in semantic
coordination of speech and gesture reveal?: Evidence for an interface
representation of spatial thinking and speaking. <i>Journal of Memory and
language</i>, <i>48</i>(1), 16-32.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm 12pt 70pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt">Kopecka,
A., & Narasimhan, B. (Eds.) (2012). Events of putting and taking: A
crosslinguistic perspective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:12pt 0cm 12pt 70pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt">Margetts,
A., Haude, K., Himmelmann, N. P., Jung, D., Riesberg, S., Schnell, S., Seifart,
F., Sheppard, H., & Wegener, C. (2022). Cross-linguistic patterns in the
lexicalisation of <i>bring</i> and <i>take</i>. <i>Studies in Language.</i> <i>46</i>(4),
934-993.</p>

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