research studentship

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EPSRC STUDENTSHIP: SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROGRAMME
DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS, UNIVERSITY OF YORK

Applications are invited for an EPSRC quota award research studentship
leading to a Ph.D., to start in October 2000. The award can be held
full-time over 3 years. The research studentship can be held in any area
of speech or language processing that falls within the remit of EPSRC
funding and is related to our current research activities.

The Department is currently completing work on an EPSRC grant: Timing
and rhythm for natural speech synthesis (more details of this work can
be found by consulting the Prosynth web site:
<http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~lang19/york/>).

Our current research includes knowledge- and data-driven approaches to
metrical structure, timing and rhythm in speech; modelling the
spectro-temporal detail of grammatical (function) words English;
modelling the phonetic detail of spontaneous conversational speech.

The department has links with researchers working on speech and language
in the departments of Electronics and Computing Science.

Applicants should have a good degree (first or 2;1) degree in a relevant
area (normally including phonetics, psychology, or computational
linguistics), or a Masters degree with relevant research experience.

Full studentships include a basic maintenance award and are available to
British applicants and those with 3 years qualifying residence in the UK
(excluding full time education). Tuition fees are paid direct to the
university. The maintenance award is paid to the student. It is
currently of £6,620 p.a., and will probably increase by about 2.5%
before October. Additional maintenance allowances are available to
students above 26 years of age, or if you have sole financial
responsibility for children (single parents). A Tuition fee studentship
without a maintenance allowance would be available to EU residents.

You may wish to consult our Departmental Web site
<http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/lang/>. The EPSRC studentship handbook
online
<http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/EPSRCWEB/MAIN/TRAINING/INFOSTU/INTRO/
INTRO.asp?Ma
in.htm> gives full details of eligibility conditions and maintenance
allowances.

Applications should be made on the standard form, available from:

Mrs C Bennison
Graduate Secretary
Department of Language & Linguistic Science
University of York
Heslington
York YO10 5DD

Include a brief statement of the research areas that interest you, and
if possible a specific research proposal. The closing date for
applications is June 9 2000.

Further informal information can be obtained from Prof. John Local
(<lang4 at york.ac.uk>). Please mark correspondence "EPSRC studentship".

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John Local
Professor of Phonetics and Linguistics
Department of Language and Linguistic Science
University of York
Heslington
York YO10 5DD

Tel 01904 432658
Fax 01904 432673
E-mail lang4 at york.ac.uk
URL http://www.york.ac.uk/~lang4