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<h1><span lang="EN-AU">PhD
Opportunities: The ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, ANU
node</span></h1>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">Expressions of interest are
now being sought for PhD positions at the new Centre for Excellence for the
Dynamics of Language (CoEDL), funded by the Australian Research Council for the
period mid-2014 to mid-2021. This is the first stage in a two-step procedure:
in this first stage we will go through the overall field of applications, and
rank them for fit and competitiveness, then in a second phase we will get back
to the highly-ranked ones with guidance about how to go through the somewhat
baroque process of making a formal application. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">CoEDL [</span><span lang="FI"><span class=""><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri"><a href="http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/">http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/</a></span></span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">] is launching an ambitious series of
interlinked projects, focusing on language as a dynamic and variable system,
and drawing on the full diversity of the world’s languages, through four
programs focusing on the design space of language (Shape), how it is learned
(Learning) and processed (Processing), and how linguistic structures evolve at
various timescales (Evolution). Two ‘threads’ (Archiving, and New Generation
technologies) will enable the technological advances needed to drive forward
the language sciences in the coming decades. The Centre is strongly
interdisciplinary and features researchers from linguistics, speech pathology,
psychology, anthropology, philosophy, bioinformatics and robotics. CoEDL is
centred on four Australian Universities (Australian National University,
University of Melbourne, University of Western Sydney and University of
Queensland), with partner institutions in Australasia and the Pacific, Asia,
Europe and North America.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">The present PhD positions will be located at the
Australian National University (ANU), which houses researchers working in and
across all four Programs, and we are particularly interested in doctoral
students whose interests make new interconnections between various approaches
to language. Potential topics include the following:</span></p>

<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">-<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">       
</span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">Description and documentation of a traditional indigenous language of
Australia  </span></p>

<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">-<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">       
</span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">Description and documentation of new Australian varieties,
including Kriol, new mixed languages</span></p>

<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">-<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">       
</span></span><span lang="FI" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">Multigenerational documentation of an
Australian language focusing on aspects of language-use across generations</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri"></span></p>

<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">-<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">       
</span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">Description and documentation of an undescribed Papuan language</span></p>

<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">-<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">       
</span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">Corpus-based study of an Australian or Papuan language; or corpus-based
study of the coding of social-cognition across a parallel corpus</span></p>

<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">-<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">       
</span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">Quantitative sociolinguistic study of immigrant varieties of Australian
English </span></p>

<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">-<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">       
</span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">Experimental studies of first language acquisition and language
processing</span></p>

<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">-<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">       
</span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">Corpus- and/or fieldwork-based study of language acquisition with
particular focus on intersubjective functions, 
preferably in  a language of the
Asia-Pacific region</span></p>

<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">-<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">       
</span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">Language phylogenies and human prehistory in New Guinea or South-East
Asia</span></p>

<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">-<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">       
</span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">Linking language micro-evolution to language macroevolution</span></p>

<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">-<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">       
</span></span><span lang="FI" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">Coevolutionary interactions between language,
cognition or culture</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri"></span></p>

<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">-<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">       
</span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">Evolution and co-evolution of language structures</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">PhD applicants will need to successfully apply for
an Australian Postgraduate Award (or other suitable scholarship); CoEDL will
then supplement this with generous conference travel funds, and substantial
training and development opportunities. Field-based PhD positions will
undertake substantial fieldwork in the relevant speech community, and generous
fieldwork support and mentoring will be provided.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">PhD students will be supervised by CoEDL
researchers, as well as researchers across the other CoEDL nodes (Universities
of Melbourne, Queensland and Western Sydney).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">Interested applicants should contact
<a href="mailto:coedl@anu.edu.au">coedl@anu.edu.au</a> in the first instance; COEDL will then prioritise the most
competitive applications and contact approved applicants about making a formal
application for enrolment and scholarship through the regular ANU system, by 31^st
August 2014 for international applicants and by the 31st October 2014 for
applicants from Australia and New Zealand.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">In their applications, applicants should provide
the following:</span></p>

<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">1.<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">    
</span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">CV with educational qualifications, any publications and other relevant
experience (e.g. fieldwork, relevant internships)</span></p>

<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">2.<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">    
</span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">Transcript of prior undergraduate and/or postgraduate degrees (will
normally need <b>at least </b>80%
average to be competitive)</span></p>

<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">3.<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">    
</span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">A two-page statement setting out your preferred topic, potential field
site (if relevant), what skills and personal attributes you will bring to the
project, and what you see as the most interesting and challenging issues you
will address</span></p>

<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">4.<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">    
</span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">If available, other materials supporting your case (e.g. relevant articles
or other materials)</span></p>

<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">5.<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">    
</span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">For applicants whose undergraduate/postgraduate theses are not in
English, their most recent TOEFL/IELTS scores</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">Deadline</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri"> for initial expressions of interest
(International applicants): 20 August 2014 (note formal application must be
completed by 31 August).</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">Deadline</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri"> (Australian and New Zealand Applicants):
15th September 2014.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">Scholarship information is
available at:<br>
</span><span lang="FI"><a href="http://students.anu.edu.au/scholarships/gr/off/"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">http://students.anu.edu.au/scholarships/gr/off/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri"></span></p>


<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri">General information about
applying is available here:<br>
<a href="http://students.anu.edu.au/applications/gradresearch.php">http://students.anu.edu.au/applications/gradresearch.php</a></span></p>

<div><br></div>-- <br>Jane Simpson<br>Private e-mail
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