21.4907, Support: Dutch, Spanish & General Ling: PhD Student, Radboud U., Nijmegen

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Subject: 21.4907, Support: Dutch, Spanish & General Ling: PhD Student, Radboud U., Nijmegen

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Date: 03-Dec-2010
From: Mirjam Ernestus [m.ernestus at let.ru.nl]
Subject: Dutch, Spanish & Commmunication Studies, English Linguistics, General Linguistics: PhD Student, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
 

	
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Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 21:00:11
From: Mirjam Ernestus [m.ernestus at let.ru.nl]
Subject: Dutch, Spanish & Commmunication Studies, English Linguistics, General Linguistics: PhD Student, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

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Institution/Organization: Radboud University Nijmegen 
Department: Faculty of Arts 
Web Address: http://www.ru.nl/cls/ 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: General Linguistics 
Communication between Non-native Speakers, English Linguistics 

Description:

The PhD-student will investigate how native speakers of Spanish communicate with 
native speakers of Dutch in English, under different conditions (asking for formal or 
informal speech). The student will focus on how the Spanish adapt their 
pronunciation, how they prevent or solve miscommunication, how intelligible they are 
and on how they are judged by native speakers of Dutch.

For this, the PhD-student will collect a corpus of English produced by Spanish 
students communicating with a native speaker of Dutch of their own social status, 
and talking to a group of native speakers of Dutch and Spanish of the
same and higher social status. The PhD-student will provide an orthographic 
transcription of this corpus and then analyze this corpus in pragmatic respect (how is 
miscommunication prevented and solved?), in acoustic respect (what are the 
qualitative and quantitative aspects of English spoken by Spanish language users) 
and in receptive respect (what are the consequences of deviant
patterns on comprehension and on speaker evaluation?). These corpus studies will 
be supplemented with experimental studies.

The PhD-student will write at least four papers on the basis of this research for high 
impact international journals, and also present the research at international 
conferences. The dissertation will consist of the articles, preceded by a General 
Introduction, and followed by a General Discussion/Conclusions.

We are looking for candidates with a background in English linguistics, General 
linguistics, or Communication studies, who are (near)-native in English. Knowledge of 
Spanish and of phonetics will be considered as an advantage. 

The successful candidate will receive a contract for 3.5 years with the Radboud 
University, and be considered as regular employees. The PhD-student will be 
supervised by Prof. Dr. Margot van Mulken and Dr. Mirjam Ernestus and be part of a 
large research group. 

Application Deadline: 01-Feb-2011 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: Dr. Mirjam Ernestus 
	Radboud University Nijmegen 
	P.O. Box  310 
	Nijmegen NL-6500 AH 
	Netherlands 	
	
Contact Information: 
	Dr. Mirjam Ernestus 
	m.ernestus at let.ru.nl 
	Phone:+31-24-3612970  



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