20.4269, Support: Foreign Lang Perception, Production: PhD Student, Stony Brook

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Date: 08-Dec-2009
From: Ellen Broselow < ellen.broselow at stonybrook.edu >
Subject: Foreign Language Perception, Production: PhD Student, Stony Brook University (SUNY), New York, USA
 

	
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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:30:08
From: Ellen Broselow [ellen.broselow at stonybrook.edu]
Subject: Foreign Language Perception, Production: PhD Student, Stony Brook University (SUNY), New York, USA

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Institution/Organization: Stony Brook University (SUNY) 
Department: Linguistics 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: Phonetics; Phonology 
 

Description:

Students admitted to the Ph.D. program in linguistics will be considered for
Research Assistantships on an NSF-funded project investigating the relationship
between the production and perception of foreign languages.  

This project uses the methodology of linguistics, psychology, and
neurophysiology to determine why some foreign language structures are mastered
more easily than others. The goals are to determine whether language learners'
problems in pronunciation originate from errors of perception, and at what level
of processing the perception errors occur. Two types of methodology are
employed: discrimination tasks, in which listeners judge two stimuli as the same
or different; and ERP (event related potentials), which measure automatic
responses of the auditory system to changes in auditory stimuli. Experience with
ERP is welcome but not necessary. 

The following link provides examples of one component of this project:
http://www.linguistics.stonybrook.edu/research/foreign.language.perception/talks_papers 

Application Deadline: 15-Jan-2010 

Web Address for Applications: http://semlab1.sbs.sunysb.edu/graduate/admission 

Contact Information: 
	Prof. Ellen Broselow 
	ellen.broselow at stonybrook.edu 
	Phone:631-632-7780 
	Fax:631-632-9789  



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