34.3745, Jobs: Historical Linguistics, Psycholinguistics: Postdoctoral Researcher, Free University of Berlin

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Subject: 34.3745, Jobs: Historical Linguistics, Psycholinguistics: Postdoctoral Researcher, Free University of Berlin

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Date: 05-Dec-2023
From: Malte Rosemeyer [malte.rosemeyer at fu-berlin.de]
Subject: Historical Linguistics, Psycholinguistics: Postdoctoral Researcher, Free University of Berlin

University or Organization: Freie Universität Berlin
Department: Institute for Romance Philology
Job Location: Berlin, Germany
Web Address:
https://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/we05/index.html
Job Title: Postdoctoral Researcher
Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Historical Linguistics; Psycholinguistics

Description:

The Institute of Romance Philology at the Department of Philosophy and
Humanities of the Free University of Berlin is currently seeking to
fill a Postdoctoral Researcher Position (m/f/d) in the ERC-funded
research project "Experimental replication of historical reanalysis
processes" (EXREAN) from April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2029. Salary is
determined following the salary scale E 13 according to German TVL.

EXREAN investigates reanalysis, the process by which speakers assign a
new meaning to a superficially unchanged element, in Romance languages
(French, Italian, Spanish). Reanalysis presents several methodological
difficulties for researchers in the field of historical linguistics.
Evidence of language change is often determined by comparing language
use over time across different historical texts. Reanalysis, however,
is a cognitive process and its existence is thus very difficult to
prove using written texts. Analyzing language usage in historical
texts can only provide limited information about the conditions under
which reanalysis takes place.

The EXREAN project is the first of its kind to systematically examine
reanalysis in a laboratory setting. It brings together and integrates
insights from historical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and social
psychology. In particular, it investigates the linguistic and social
factors necessary for reanalysis to occur. For more information,
please visit https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/informationen/fup/2023
/fup_23_278-erc-grant-malte-rosemeyer/index.html

Your tasks:
 - You will plan and conduct experiments about reanalysis in Romance
languages
 - You will analyze the results of these experiments using statistical
methods
 - You will present your results at international conferences and make
them available to the research community through publications in
scientific journals
 - You will administrate the linguistic research laboratory Labex (htt
ps://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we05/forschung/LabEx/index
.html)

Formal requirements:
You have earned a university degree and a PhD in linguistics or a
related field

Your ideal profile:
 - Excellent academic CV
 - Very good knowledge of experimental methods in linguistics
 - Very good knowledge of the application of Artificial Language
Learning experiments and the use of the PsychoPy software package
 - Very good knowledge of syntax-based statistical software
(preferably R or Python)
 - Very good knowledge of modern linguistic theories with a focus on
historical linguistics
 - Very good knowledge of statistical methods
 - Very good language skills (C1) in a Romance language (French,
Italian or Spanish, practical language skills and linguistic
description)

Further information is available from Prof. Dr. Malte Rosemeyer
(malte.rosemeyer at fu-berlin.de/ +49 30 838 60570).

Additional information:
Applications must be sent electronically by email to Prof. Dr. Malte
Rosemeyer: romphil at zedat.fu-berlin.de, using the identifier
ERC-PD-Ros. Please send all documents as a single PDF.\

Application deadline: January 8, 2024.

By submitting an online application, you as the applicant agree that
your data will be processed and stored electronically. We would like
to point out that Freie Universität Berlin cannot guarantee the
security of transmitted personal data.

Application Deadline: 08-Jan-2024
Mailing Address for Applications:
Email Address for Applications: romphil at zedat.fu-berlin.de
Contact Information:
        Dr. Malte Rosemeyer
        Email: malte.rosemeyer at fu-berlin.de

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