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<b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt"><font face="Times">The Moklum (Tangsa) language of North
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<p style="MARGIN: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt">The Research Centre for Linguistic Typology (RCLT) at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia (</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt"><a href="http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Times"><font color="#800080">http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt</font></span></a></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt">)
invites applications from suitably qualified students to enter its PhD program in order to do a documentation and description of the Moklum variety of the Tangsa language (ISO 639-3:nst). This PhD is part of an Australian Research Council funded Future Fellowship
project headed by Dr. Stephen Morey, entitled </span><i>A multifaceted study of Tangsa – a network of linguistic varieties in North
<st1:place w:st="on">East India</st1:place>.</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">
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<p style="TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN: 0pt; tab-stops: 18.0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times">The Tangsa are around 70 subgroups who live on both sides of the India-Myanmar border. All the groups speak distinct varieties, some mutually intelligible
and some not. The total population of the Tangsas may be around 50-60,000, an average of less than 1,000 per group. The Moklum variety is one of the largest of the Tangsa groups spoken in
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<p style="TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN: 0pt; tab-stops: 18.0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times">The successful candidate will have experience in linguistic documentation/description in languages of South East, East or
<st1:place w:st="on">South Asia</st1:place>. Preference will be given to a student with an MA or other proven research capability. Following a period of academic preparation at the RCLT, they will undertake immersion fieldwork in the Moklum area, of no more
than one year’s duration across the time of the PhD candidature, and probably consisting of two field trips.
<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt">Fieldwork methodology centres on the collection, transcription and analysis of texts, together with participant observation, and appropriate grammatical elicitation. The texts recorded will form part of a language documentation:
recording a range of linguistic styles and building a corpus of linguistic data that can be archived in international digital archives that are available to both specialist linguists and the speakers of the language.<o:p></o:p></span></font></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN: 0pt; tab-stops: 18.0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times">Candidates are encouraged to ground their thesis in theoretical models of their own choosing, but with
a clear basis in the empirical study of natural data and with a firm grounding in general typological literature and work done on related languages.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p>
<p style="TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN: 0pt; tab-stops: 18.0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times">The RCLT has a long tradition of field work based linguistic description, and consists at any one time
of around ten PhD students and several Postdoctoral Fellows, plus six permanent members and several Honorary Fellows. Each year a number of senior scholars from across the world spend time with us as Visiting Fellows.
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<p style="TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN: 0pt; tab-stops: 18.0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times">PhDs in Australian universities generally involve no coursework, just a substantial dissertation. Candidates
must therefore have had thorough coursework training before embarking on this PhD. This should have included courses on morphology, syntax, semantics, phonology/phonetics and comparative-historical linguistics.
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<p style="TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN: 0pt; tab-stops: 18.0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt">The scholarship will be at the standard La Trobe University rate, Australian $22,500 p.a.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Tuition fees will be covered by a separate scholarship. A small relocation allowance may be provided on taking up the scholarship. In addition, appropriate allowance will be made to cover fieldwork expenses. The scholarship is for three years (with the
possibility of a six month </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">extension).<o:p></o:p></span></font></font></p>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><font size="3"><font face="Times">Closing date for international applicants:
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span><u>30<sup>TH</sup> JULY 2010</u><o:p></o:p></font></font></b></p>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><font size="3"><font face="Times">Closing date for Australian and
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New Zealand</st1:place></st1:country-region> applicants:
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span><u>30<sup>TH</sup> AUGUST 2010<o:p></o:p></u></font></font></b></p>
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</span>Prospective applicants are invited, in the first place, to get in touch with the project leader, Dr. Stephen Morey, at s.morey@latrobe.edu.au, providing details of their background, qualifications and interests (including a curriculum vitae).<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p>
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