29.1731, Support: Language Acquisition: PhD, University of Zurich, Switzerland

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Subject: 29.1731, Support: Language Acquisition: PhD, University of Zurich, Switzerland

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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 10:08:22
From: Raffaela Zaugg [info at spur.uzh.ch]
Subject: Language Acquisition: PhD, University of Zurich, Switzerland

 Institution/Organization: University of Zurich 
Department: URPP Language and Space 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research,Project Work
 
Specialty Areas: General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Phonetics; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology 
 

Description:

The University Research Priority Program (URPP) Language and Space at the
University of Zurich seeks to hire a PhD researcher by September 1, 2018.

The PhD researcher will work within the research group ''Accommodation and
Social Categorization''. This group investigates linguistic accommodation in
different situations: contact between speakers of different dialects over a
short and a longer time period, interactions between children and adults in
bilingual communities, and written communication in social media. The broader
aim of this research is to shed light on the mechanisms of linguistic
accommodation more generally, and to better understand which factors may favor
or inhibit change in a situation of language contact (more information:
http://www.spur.uzh.ch/en/research/accommodation.html).

The goal of this particular PhD project is to investigate the development of
accommodation in speech and language in early language acquisition, ideally in
typologically diverse languages for which the ACQDIV corpus
(http://www.acqdiv.uzh.ch/en.html) might be used. In speech and language
development, the voice of the mother plays a large role in the early
acquisition. We aim at understanding which characteristics of the mother’s
linguistic input influence the early structure of a child’s vocalizations most
and at which point and how accommodation to other speakers (other children or
adults) develops. The project will combine a large-scale cross-linguistic
corpus study combined with experimental speech studies. The project will be
co-supervised by Prof. Dr. Sabine Stoll and Prof. Dr. Volker Dellwo and will
be in close collaboration with the Psycholinguistic Laboratory and the
Phonetics Research Group.

Requirements:
- MA in Linguistics, Psychology, Speech Sciences or related.
- Good understanding of quantitative methods in the analysis of speech and/or
languages with experience in one or more computational data processing tools
or programming languages (e.g. R, Python, Matlab, Praat).
- Good understanding of the experimental analysis of speech and voice.

Desired skills and interests:
- Strong interest in language acquisition, speech and voice analysis, typology
and corpus linguistics.
- Solid background in statistics is a plus.
- The successful candidate should have excellent teamwork skills and be
interested to go beyond disciplinary boundaries.

We offer:
- An inspiring interdisciplinary and international team located at the
University of Zurich.
- Access to a large network of international collaborators.
- Interdisciplinary supervision of the project leading to the degree of PhD.

Application:
- a motivation letter in which you describe why you are the right candidate
for this position
- a comprehensive CV
- a copy of the MA thesis
- the names and contact information of at least two referees
- a code sample of your programming skills (URL or attachment)

Please send the documents combined into one PDF file (apart from MA thesis) to
sabine.stoll at uzh.ch and volker.dellwo at uzh.ch, both of which may be contacted
for further information.

The position will start not earlier than September 1, 2018 with an initial
contract for two years and possible extension for another year.
 

Application Deadline: 15-May-2018 

Web Address for Applications: http://www.spur.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:bb378e34-8d62-4d37-86a4-7c49fb23bb14/PhD%20Akkommodation%20final.pdf 

Contact Information: 
	Prof. Dr. Sabine Stoll and Volker Dellwo 
	sabine.stoll at uzh.ch 
	volker.dellwo at uzh.ch  


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