27.2830, Support: Language Acquisition, Variation, Attrition / Norway

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Subject: 27.2830, Support: Language Acquisition, Variation, Attrition / Norway

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Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2016 10:53:41
From: Marit Westergaard [marit.westergaard at uit.no]
Subject: Language Acquisition, Variation, Attrition, PhD, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway

 Institution/Organization: UiT The Arctic University of Norway 
Department: Department of Language and Culture 
Web Address: https://en.uit.no/startsida 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research,Teaching

Specialty Areas: Language Acquisition 
Variation, Attrition 

Description:

Doctoral Research Fellowship in Linguistics (Language Acquisition, Variation &
Attrition) 

The position is a fully funded four-year position affiliated with the LAVA
research group, Language Acquisition, Variation & Attrition
(http://site.uit.no/lava/). The purpose of the PhD Fellowship is research
training leading to the successful completion of a doctoral dissertation. 

LAVA is an exceptionally active and productive research group, currently
consisting of 14 researchers, including five professors, a postdoc, a lab
manager, four PhD students and three 20% Professor II positions (adjunct
professors). The group members are involved in a number of research projects
both locally and internationally, and many projects have received external
funding, e.g. MiMS (Micro-variation in Multilingual Situations) and DASAGO
(Sami language acquisition), financed by the Research Council of Norway and
LAMBA (Latvian language in Monolingual and Bilingual Acquisition), financed by
EEA Norway grants. For further information about the group’s work and
activities, see the website of the LAVA research group:
http://site.uit.no/lava/

For a number of years, the acquisition research group at CASTL/Department of
Language and Culture has worked on monolingual language acquisition, focusing
on linguistic phenomena where there is variation in the input, e.g. word order
variation expressing fine distinctions in syntax and information structure. In
recent years, there has been an increasing focus on variation in a
bilingual/multilingual perspective, i.e. bilingual acquisition (2L1), second
and third language acquisition (L2 and L3), as well as heritage languages
(e.g. Norwegian in the USA or Russian in Norway). Recent and current research
projects in the LAVA group study language combinations such as
Norwegian-English, Norwegian-Russian, Norwegian-North Sami, Ukrainian-English,
Latvian-Russian, Spanish-English-Portuguese, as well as English as an L3 (in
combination with Norwegian and a Slavic language). There is also increasing
interest in investigations of two closely related varieties, e.g.
Brazilian-European Portuguese, Norwegian-Swedish, Spanish-Catalan, or two
Norwegian dialects. The advertised PhD position opens up for research projects
on the same or other relevant language or dialect combinations.

The work of the LAVA group has a theoretical foundation and the focus is on
the mental grammars of various populations of speakers. The object of study is
syntactic microvariation and the importance of factors such as complexity,
frequency or economy in the acquisition process and in heritage language
situations. The research methodology includes both corpora of spontaneous
production as well as different types of experimental work (production
experiments, eyetracking, etc.). Applicants for the advertised PhD position
should propose a research project that will strengthen and complement the
research profile of the LAVA group. The project proposal should be 5-7 pages.

For further information about the position, please contact Professor Marit
Westergaard (marit.westergaard at uit.no) or Head of Department of Language and
Culture Eystein Dahl (Tel: +47 77 64 42 90, Eystein.dahl at uit.no).

For a complete version of the announcement, see
https://www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-stillinger/stilling/126794/doctoral-research-f
ellowship-in-linguistics-language-acquisition-variation-attrition-at-the-depar
tment-of-language-and-culture. 

The application must be submitted electronically via the application form
available on https://www.jobbnorge.no.

Application Deadline: 18-Aug-2016 

Web Address for Applications: https://www.jobbnorge.no 

Contact Information: 
	Professor Marit Westergaard 
	marit.westergaard at uit.no  

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