Postdoctoral fellowships

[Lyle Campbell]

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University of Canterbury  Christchurch New Zealand, Department of Linguistics
announces:

Two Post-Doctoral fellowships in Linguistics are available from 1st
February 2000.

These fellowships are for the ONZE research project (ONZE stands for
"origins and development of New Zealand English").   One is for a two-year
period, and one for a three-year period, beginning Feb. 1st, 2000 or as
soon thereafter as possible.

(1)    Acoustic phonetics
        (Funded by the Royal Society of New Zealand, Marsden Fund)
        This fellowship is for three years, at $45,000 NZ per year.

(Interest in sociolinguistics and/or language change will also be of value.)


(2)    Auditory phonetics and sociolinguistics
        (Funded by the University of Canterbury)
        This fellowship is for two years at $45,000 NZ per year.

(Interest in language change will also be of value.)


Both fellowships include a return airfare.

Note: the cost of living in New Zealand is lower than in many other
countries - for example, the average wage is under $24,000 per year; the
fellowship is comparable to the salary received by beginning lecturers in
New Zealand (equivalent to assistant professors in North America.)


The Origins and Development of New Zealand English (ONZE)

Project leaders:
Assoc.-Prof. Elizabeth Gordon,  Department of Linguistics
Professor Lyle Campbell,  Department of Linguistics
Dr Margaret Maclagan,  Department of Speech-Language Therapy

This is a sociolinguistic research project interested in the origin of New
Zealand English and how it has changed.  Since the European settlement of
NZ dates back only 150 years, New Zealand English (NZE) has developed at a
time when it is possible to have not only written accounts of the early
speech heard in this country, but also actual recorded evidence.  We have
an archive of recorded interviews collected by the NZ National Broadcasting
Corporation in 1946/47 containing the speech of over 200 old New
Zealanders, some born as early as the 1850s (almost as early as the major
colonisation, from 1840).   This archive, along with other more recent
recorded data, provides us with the complete history in apparent time of
this new variety of English.  This research, therefore, provides keys to
resolving theoretical questions of how languages change, how dialects
emerge, and how new colonial and postcolonial English varieties develop.

The main objectives of the research are to establish the origin and
development of NZE and to use developments in NZE to test general claims
about language change and the emergence of new varieties of English.

These will be achieved through the phonetic analysis of archives of
recordings which collectively include the speech of New Zealanders born
from 1850-c1975.

The project will provide opportunities for the post-doctoral fellows to
work in a rich research environment with an established team which includes
Elizabeth Gordon, Lyle Campbell; Margaret Maclagan, and Peter Trudgill.

For more information please contact:
Associate Professor Elizabeth Gordon
e.gordon at ling.canterbury.ac.nz
Tel:  64 -3-364-2008
or
Professor Lyle Campbell
l.campbell at ling.canterbury.ac.nz
Tel: 64-3-364-2242

Guidelines for applicants applying for a position are to be found at:
http://www.research.canterbury.ac.nz/postdoc_candidates_frame.htm

       Position 1 (acoustic phonetics): Marsden Grant
        Position 2 (auditory phonetics and sociolinguistics): LG74