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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">PhD in language documentation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.ntu.edu.sg/hss/linguistics" target="_blank"><span style="color:#074D8F">The Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ntu.edu.sg/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#074D8F">Nanyang
Technological University</span></a>, Singapore, invites suitably qualified people to apply to undertake research on a hitherto undescribed (or scantily described) Tibeto-Burman, Austro-Asiatic or Indic language of the north-east India/Burma region, leading
to a comprehensive grammatical description of that language. This project forms part of a larger initiative to document the languages of north-east India and adjacent regions of Asia. PhD research funding is guaranteed for three years of candidature, with
the possibility of extension. The NTU Research Scholarship for international students starts at SIN $2000, rising to SIN $2500 after confirmation. In addition, PhD students can apply for further funding to cover fieldwork expenses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The ideal applicant will have a solid grounding in descriptive linguistics and already hold an MA, or a BA with a good Honours grade. Successful applicants can anticipate doing one year of coursework, followed
by three years of empirically-based research. After completion of the coursework year, the candidate will undertake a 9-12 month period of fieldwork that will involve living in the speech community to record, transcribe and analyse linguistic data. S/he will
then return to Singapore to complete the first draft of the grammar and prepare the corpus of materials for archiving. A second trip of 3 months will be made in the final year to check the analysis of the data.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Interested applicants should apply in the first instance to Dr Alexander Coupe<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:arcoupe@ntu.edu.sg" target="_blank"><span style="color:#074D8F">arcoupe@ntu.edu.sg</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">For further information pertaining to graduate study at NTU, see:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.ntu.edu.sg/HSS/Linguistics/Graduate/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color:#074D8F">http://www.ntu.edu.sg/HSS/Linguistics/Graduate/Pages/default.aspx</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Alexander R. Coupe, Ph.D.
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</span><span style="font-size:
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"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">|</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> Nanyang Technological University<br>
HSS-03-53, 14 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 637332 <br>
Tel: (65) 6592-1567 </span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
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color:black"> Fax: (65) 6795-6525
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font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">|</span><span style="font-size:
8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> Email:
<a href="mailto:arcoupe@ntu.edu.sg"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:
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<a href="http://www.ntu.edu.sg/HSS/Linguistics/Pages/default.aspx"><span style="color:blue">http://www.ntu.edu.sg/HSS/Linguistics</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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