30.2240, Support: English; Phonetics,Sociophonetics: PhD, Macquarie University

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Subject: 30.2240, Support: English; Phonetics,Sociophonetics: PhD, Macquarie University

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Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 23:31:55
From: Felicity Cox [felicity.cox at mq.edu.au]
Subject: English; Phonetics,Sociophonetics: PhD, Macquarie University, Australia

 Institution/Organization: Macquarie University 
Department: Linguistics 
Web Address: https://www.mq.edu.au/about/about-the-university/faculties-and-departments/faculty-of-human-sciences/departments-and-centres/department-of-linguistics 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: Phonetics 
Sociophonetics 
Required Language(s): English (eng)

Description:

Macquarie University is offering three PhD scholarships in Phonetics

A. Multicultural Australian English: The new voice of Sydney

Two scholarships are offered in conjunction with the Australian Research
Council Future Fellowship project “Multicultural Australian English: The new
voice of Sydney” awarded to Prof. Felicity Cox (2019-2022). This project
examines the relationship between speech production and ethnic diversity in a
multicultural environment.

Scholarship 1: A bundled Masters by Research + PhD scholarship (1+3 years)
available to eligible Australian students. Closing date 15th October 2019.
https://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/scholarships/scholarsh
ip-search/data/multicultural-australian-english-the-new-voice-of-sydney

Scholarship 2: A direct-entry PhD scholarship (3 years) available to eligible
international students. Closing date 31st July 2019.
https://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/scholarships/scholarsh
ip-search/data/multicultural-australian-english-the-new-voice-of-sydney2

The suitable applicants should have disciplinary background in phonetics or
sociophonetics. The specific topic of the candidate's research project is
negotiable. Potential projects may include:
- Acoustic and/or articulatory examination of select phonetic features of
Australian English used by adolescents from a range of heritage language
backgrounds such as Arabic, Mandarin, Hindi, German, Vietnamese, English
- Analysis of the relationship between speech production and the level and
type of speaker engagement with the local community
- Ethnophonetic analysis of social microcultures within a school setting
- Examination of sound change through a comparison between select acoustic
data from the Multicultural Australian English project and archival Australian
English data
- Examination of sound change through agent based modelling

B. Children's speech, community diversity and the emergence of sound change

A scholarship is offered in conjunction with the Australian Research Council
Discovery Project “Children's speech, community diversity and the emergence of
sound change” awarded to Prof. Felicity Cox (2019-2021) and Prof. Jonathan
Harrington (Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing, Ludwig Maximilians
University of Munich). This project aims to explain how children's speech
processing adapts to cultural and linguistic diversity and how such adaptation
may seed sound change in language.

The suitable applicants should have disciplinary background in phonetics or
sociophonetics. The specific topic of the candidate's research project is
negotiable. Potential projects may include:
- Examination of change in select phonetic features of Australian English used
by children from Arabic or English language backgrounds
- Analysis of speech processing in children from culturally diverse vs
culturally homogeneous rural/urban communities
- Acquisition of social-indexical knowledge
- The effects of interlocutor characteristics on linguistic accommodation

Scholarship 3: A direct-entry PhD scholarship (3 years) available to eligible
Australian students. 

Closing date 30th June 2019.
https://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/scholarships/scholarsh
ip-search/data/childrens-speech,-community-diversity-and-the-emergence-of-soun
d-change
 

Application Deadline: 30-Jun-2019 

Web Address for Applications: https://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/scholarships/scholarship-search/data/ 

Contact Information: 
	Prof Felicity Cox 
	felicity.cox at mq.edu.au  


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