[Lingtyp] 2 PhD student positions in Linguistics at the Dept of Linguistics, Stockholm University

[Ljuba Veselinova]

2 PhD positions in Linguistics


The Department of Linguistics announces 2 PhD student positions within the
fields of Child Language Development and Linguistic Typology and Language
Documentation. Ref.nr SU FV-2638-16.


Application deadline: 2016-10-15.
Child Language Development

The PhD student position in Child Language Development/Child Language
Acquisition is associated to the child language acquisition research group
in the Department of Linguistics at Stockholm University.

The child language acquisition research competence at the Department
encompasses different research approaches to child language acquisition as
well as different theoretical and methodological aspects. This creates a
unique knowledge centre to which the successful doctoral candidate is
expected to contribute actively. The research group aims to describe how
children acquire language in interaction with the environment. Which
modalities are used? How are these used? Can we model the process? Current
research questions are on multimodal parent-child communication, features
of child-directed speech, and the relationship between perception and
production. The Department’s Phonetic Laboratory considers a broad range of
perspectives on child language acquisition and is equipped with facilities
for EEG-measurement, eye-tracking measurement, tracking of articulatory
movements and audio and video recordings.

The child language research group meets regularly, reviews their research
products together and collaborates actively in various studies in-house as
well as with the international research field. The focus of the doctoral
student’s thesis work is expected to be in line with current research and
to use, at least partially, existing material of different research
projects.
Linguistic typology and language documentation

This position is associated with the department’s strong research profile
in linguistic typology, language documentation and related aspects in the
study of linguistic diversity. The dissertation should therefore be
theoretically and methodologically linked to one of those focal areas of
research, and be based on empirical material derived from one or more
languages, preferably with a cross-linguistic or diachronic perspective.
This could, for instance, take the shape of a cross-linguistic and
systematic comparison of a particular phenomenon or a grammatical
construction, by means of a sample, either with an areal, world-wide or a
language-family scope. It could also be in the form of a fieldwork-based
and typologically informed treatment of an individual undocumented or
lesser studied language, alternatively focusing on a particular aspect of
the language system. (For our policy on funding of fieldwork, please see
separate documentation.)

In addition to courses and dissertation work, the applicant is expected to
participate in departmental activities, such as seminars and regular
meetings held with the research group, and in that way contribute to a
positive research environment.

*Application is made through the electronic application interface.
Admission requirements and selection criteria are stated in the
announcement.*

*Link to the electronic application interface and the announcement:*
http://www.su.se/english/about/vacancies/vacancies-new-list?rmpage=job&rmjob=1913&rmlang=UK

For more information, please contact Sofia Gustafson-Capkova, Director of
Doctoral Studies, telephone: +46 8 16 34 88, studierektorfu at ling.su.se


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Ljuba Veselinova, Associate Professor
Dept of Linguistics, Stockholm University, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46-8-16-2332 Fax: +46-8-15 5389
URL  : http://www.ling.su.se/ljuba.veselinova

"We learn by going where we want to go."
                                          Julia Cameron
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