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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><strong>PhD Opportunities: The ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, University of Queensland node</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Applications are now being sought for one or two PhD positions in the Shape of Language program of the Centre for Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (CoEDL), funded by the Australian
Research Council for the period mid-2014 to mid-2021. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US">The present PhD position/s will be located at the University of Queensland, and situated within the Shape program. Potential topics include the following:</span></p>
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<li>Intergenerational comparisons of the expression of spatial relations (i.e. cardinal directions) in Guugu Yimidhirr spoken in Hope Vale<br>
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<li>Supervisors: Felicity Meakins and Alice Gaby (Monash) in collaboration with Lourdes de Leon (CIESAS, Mexico)</li></ul>
</li><li>A grammatical description of Warlmanpa, a Ngumpin-Yapa language spoken around Tennant Creek (Northern Territory)
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<li>Supervisors: Felicity Meakins and Mary Laughren in collaboration with David Nash (ANU)</li></ul>
</li><li>Interfaces between prosody, syntax and information packaging in Garrwa, spoken around Borroloola
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<li>Supervisor: Ilana Mushin</li></ul>
</li><li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Language ecology of Kaytyetye communities</span>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Supervisors: Felicity Meakins and Myfany Turpin (Sydney)</span></li></ul>
</li><li>Another proposed topic on an Australian language and/or contact situation</li></ul>
<div><span lang="EN-US">CoEDL [</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/" target="_blank" style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 233);">http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US">]
is has 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></div>
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<div>Students will be required to win their own scholarship (Australian Postgraduate Award or international equivalent) but will be guided through this process. They will also receive generous fieldwork and travel (conferences etc) funding, as well as opportunities
to attend the annual CoEDL Summer Schools and other workshops through the year. </div>
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<div>Please send a CV (including academic transcript) and a one page summary of your relevant research experience and interest in a particular topic to Felicity Meakins <<a href="mailto:f.meakins@uq.edu.au" target="_blank">f.meakins@uq.edu.au</a> by <b>31 May
2016</b>.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 8pt; color: gray; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">FELICITY MEAKINS </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 11px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> |</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 11px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> ARC
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<span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Deputy Director of the UQ node of the Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (CoEDL)</span></p>
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