26.1241, Jobs: Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology: Post Doc, The Australian National University

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Subject: 26.1241, Jobs: Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology: Post Doc, The Australian National University

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Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 19:19:51
From: Ashmita Hada [cap.hr at anu.edu.au]
Subject: Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology: Post Doc, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

 
University or Organization: The Australian National University 
Department: ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Job Location: Canberra, Australia 
Web Address: http://www.anu.edu.au/
Job Title: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology 


Description:

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Classification: Academic Level A
Salary package: $64,386 - $81,672 pa plus 17% superannuation
Fixed Term: 3 years

The ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language seeks a postdoctoral
fellow at the ANU to undertake research on using a multilingual corpus
development to investigate the typology of social cognition

The recently-funded ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language
(CoEDL http://dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au), is launching an ambitious series of
interlinked projects, focusing on language as a dynamic and variable system,
and drawing on the full diversity of the world's languages, through four
programs focusing on the design space of language (Shape), how it is learned
(Learning) and processed (Processing), and how linguistic structures evolve at
various timescales (Evolution). Two 'threads' (Archiving, and New Generation
technologies) will enable the technological advances needed to drive forward
the language sciences in the coming decades. The Centre is strongly
interdisciplinary and features researchers from linguistics, psychology,
anthropology, philosophy, bioinformatics, robotics and speech pathology. CoEDL
is centred on four Australian Universities (Australian National University,
University of Melbourne, University of Western Sydney and University of
Queensland), with 14 further partner institutions around the world.  

We are now recruiting a substantial number of three-year postdoctoral
positions for the first phase of the Centre's activities. Each of these
positions is free to international competition, will be based in the
University most appropriate to their project, and will be selected by a subset
of the Centre's personnel. These positions are primarily research-based,
offering the possibility of substantial freedom of research within the broad
ambit of the Centre and its programs. They come with appropriate research
setup and ongoing research support costs (e.g. fieldwork support for
field-based positions), plus some possibilities for limited teaching.

The role of this position is to develop and analyse a multi-lingual
semi-parallel corpus, of around a dozen languages from around the world,
focussing on similarities and differences in how languages encode categories
underlying social cognition, from kinship to theory of mind to conversational
management. Data on individual languages is being gathered by a team of
researchers; this position will be tasked with coordinating the construction
and analysis of a multilingual corpus and a set of typological and discourse
categories that can be used for cross-corpus comparison. An initial
description of the task used to elicit the data can be found at
http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/4504. Nicholas Evans will be
leading the overall project. In addition to CoEDL researchers it will also
involve collaboration with a number of Germany-based researchers under the
ambit of Evans' Anneliese Maier Research Award, so that a knowledge of German
language / academic culture would be an asset.

Each applicant should include a clear and plan (c. 2 pages) addressing what
they see as the main challenges in using a semi-parallel corpus, as generated
by the above research protocol, for investigating issues of how categories of
social cognition are variably grammaticalised across languages.

For more information and to apply for the position, please visit the
application link below.



Application Deadline: 23-Mar-2015 
	  
Web Address for Applications: http://jobs.anu.edu.au/cw/en/job/492555/postdoctoral-research-associate 
Contact Information:
	Ashmita Hada 
	Email: cap.hr at anu.edu.au 


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