29.4774, Support: Phonetics: PhD, Lancaster University

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Subject: 29.4774, Support: Phonetics: PhD, Lancaster University

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Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2018 11:29:31
From: Sam Kirkham [s.kirkham at lancaster.ac.uk]
Subject: Phonetics: PhD, Lancaster University, United Kingdom

 Institution/Organization: Lancaster University 
Department: Department of Linguistics and English Language 
Web Address: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/ 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: Phonetics 
Sociophonetics 

Description:

Lancaster University is advertising a three-year PhD studentship in phonetics,
based in the Department of Linguistics and English Language. The studentship
is fully funded, including course fees and a maintenance grant of £15,000 per
year, for a duration of three years. It is open to UK, EU and overseas
students. The deadline for applications is 1 March 2019 and the PhD would
ideally start in October 2019.

This studentship is targeted towards projects in articulatory sociophonetics,
using instrumentation such as EMA or ultrasound to investigate speech (topics
could include dialect variation, sound change, bilingualism, language contact,
phonological typology, etc). Potential applicants are encouraged to contact
Sam Kirkham (s.kirkham at lancaster.ac.uk) to express their interest and discuss
project ideas.

About the research group:
Lancaster University Phonetics Lab is a research group with 4 full-time
academics and 7 PhD students. The group has a dedicated lab space, which
includes a sound-attenuated booth and facilities for vocal tract imaging and
articulatory measurement, including electromagnetic articulography (EMA),
high-speed ultrasound, electropalatography and electroglottography. For more
information see: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/phonetics/

About the department:
Linguistics at Lancaster University is consistently ranked Top 10 in the three
major UK leagues tables nationally. Internationally, we are ranked 15th in the
world for Linguistics in the International QS rankings 2018 and we have now
been in the top 20 in the world for six years in a row.

About Lancaster:
For more information about the university and the city of Lancaster please
see: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/life-at-lancaster/city/
 

Application Deadline: 01-Mar-2019 

Web Address for Applications: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/study/postgraduate/funding/fully-funded-research-scholarships/ 

Contact Information: 
	Dr Sam Kirkham
	s.kirkham at lancaster.ac.uk  


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