31.3083, Support: Psycholinguistics: PhD, Rovira i Virgili University

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Subject: 31.3083, Support: Psycholinguistics: PhD, Rovira i Virgili University

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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 11:27:16
From: Evelina Leivada [evelina.leivada at urv.cat]
Subject: Psycholinguistics: PhD, Rovira i Virgili University, Spain

 Institution/Organization: Rovira i Virgili University 
Department: English and German Studies 
Web Address: http://www.deaa.urv.cat/en/ 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: Psycholinguistics 
 

Description:

A PhD position is offered for the project "Language processing and the
bilingual mind". The aim of this project is to investigate the ways in which
the presence of linguistic input from two proximal varieties affects the
ability of adult neurotypical speakers to provide stable acceptability
judgments about the structures that form part of their native repertoires.
Through eliciting and examining acceptability judgments that target different
domains of grammar, this project will foster comparisons across monolingual
and bilingual speakers of Spanish and Catalan. There is some flexibility
regarding the populations/languages involved.

Acceptability judgments are a reliable tool in linguistic research that can
provide valuable insights into the patterns of variation that Universal
Grammar permits. Equally well established is the idea that acceptability
judgments should be understood as points on a spectrum. More importantly,
their position on the spectrum is affected by a variety of extra-grammatical
factors such as gradience, frequency, and competing grammars. Assuming that
Universal Grammar does not dictate the relevant orderings, the input effects
have to be investigated for the surfacing patterns to be explained. The
presence of variation in the input may affect judgments in ways that remain to
be defined. Could it be the case that the ‘gray area’ of partial acceptability
judgments is bigger in bilingual populations compared to monolingual ones? Is
the stability of judgments affected more or less in the bilingual populations?

This project will answer these questions through testing monolingual speakers
of Spanish and bilingual speakers of Spanish and Catalan, in timed forced
choice tasks, something that will enable tapping into both accuracy and speed.
The same structures will be tested through various tasks and in different
point in times in order to determine whether the judgments provided by the
bilingual population are as stable as those of the monolingual population.
This combination of an on-line and an off-line measure will provide better
insights into the ways the various structures are processed in the bilingual
mind. 

Please visit the application link provided below for more information about
the fellowship and to apply. 
 

Web Address for Applications: https://www.urv.cat/en/research/support/programmes/marti-franques/cofund/ 

Contact Information: 
	Dr. Evelina Leivada
	evelina.leivada at urv.cat  


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