23.1246, Jobs: Various Languages; Foreign Speech Comprehension: PhD-student, Radboud University Njimegen

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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:00:15
From: Mirjam Ernestus [m.ernestus at let.ru.nl]
Subject: Various Languages; Foreign Speech Comprehension: PhD-student, Radboud University Njimegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands

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University or Organization: Radboud University Njimegen 
Department: Faculty of Arts
Job Location: Nijmegen, Netherlands 
Web Address: http://www.ru.nl/facultyofarts
Job Rank: PhD-student  

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics; Foreign Speech Comprehension

Required Language(s): Dutch (nld)
                      English (eng) 
                      French (fra) 
                      Spanish (spa) 
                      Indo-European 

Description:

Three PhD Students for Foreign Speech Comprehension (1,0 fte)

Vacancy number: 23.09.12

Responsibilities:
As a PhD student you will participate in one of two research projects on how 
non-native listeners learn and process reduced pronunciation variants that are 
highly frequent in spontaneous speech (e.g. English mis instead of mist). 
One project is funded by a Starting Grant from the European Research 
Council, other by a VICI Grant from the Netherlands Organization for 
Scientific Research. Both projects are directed by Professor Mirjam 
Ernestus. You will write at least three papers on the basis of this research for 
high-impact international journals.

General descriptions of the project:
The ERC and VICI projects investigate in detail how adult learners of a 
foreign language develop and use lexical representations for reduced 
pronunciation variants and how their listening skills can be improved. The 
projects aim at providing a first theory of how listeners learn to understand 
words in conversational speech in a foreign language.

PhD project E1 will investigate the nature of lexical representations that 
advanced late learners have developed for reduced variants in their foreign 
language, how they use these representations, and how this can be 
improved. It will study how native speakers of Dutch process vowel devoicing 
and categorical deletion of schwa in French.

PhD project E2 will investigate advanced late learners' sensitivities to subtle 
details of speech signals which act as cues to reduced sounds and how their 
comprehension of words can be improved with these subtle cues. It will study 
how native speakers of Spanish process gradient reduction of schwa and of 
word-final consonant clusters in English.

PhD project V1 will investigate how starting learners store phonetic details of 
reduced pronunciation variants in their lexical representations, how these 
representations develop over time, and the role of the native language 
therein. It will study how Dutch and Spanish young adults learn pronunciation 
variants with reduced vowels in English and French.

Work environment:
Radboud University Nijmegen is strategically located in Europe and is one of 
the leading academic communities in the Netherlands. Established in 1923 
and situated in the oldest city of the Netherlands, it has nine faculties and 
enrolls over 17,500 students in 107 study programmes.

The Faculty of Arts consists of ten departments in the areas of language and 
culture, history of arts, linguistics and business communication, which 
together cater for about 2,700 students and collaborate closely in teaching 
and research. Research at the Faculty of Arts is embedded in two research 
institutes: the institute for Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies (HCLS) and 
the Centre for Language Studies (CLS).

What we expect from you:
-  You should have, or shortly expect to obtain an MSc degree in an area 
related to speech processing: such as psychology, cognitive neurosciences, 
phonetics, or linguistics;
-  You should have an excellent written and spoken command of English and 
demonstrable knowledge of data analysis;
-  You should be able to quickly learn new research methods and data 
analysis methods.

Further information:
-  http://www.ru.nl/vacatures/detailsdetails_vacature_0?recid=508060
-  Please see contact information below

Applications:
Please send your application, stating vacancy number 23.09.12, to 
vacatures at let.ru.nl, for the attention of drs. L.J.P.M. van Mosseveld, before 
15 April 2012.

No commercial propositions please.

Application Deadline: 15-Apr-2012 

Email Address for Applications: vacatures at let.ru.nl 
Contact Information:
	Mirjam Ernestus 
	Email: m.ernestus at let.ru.nl 

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