23.3110, Support: Comp Ling, Lang Acq, Syntax: PhD Student, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

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Subject: 23.3110, Support: Comp Ling, Lang Acq, Syntax: PhD Student, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:38:46
From: Katherine Demuth [katherine.demuth at mq.edu.au]
Subject: Comp Ling, Lang Acq, Syntax: PhD Student, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

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 Institution/Organization: Macquarie University 
Department:  

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research,Project Work

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Syntax 

Description:

Several PhD positions are available. A first-class Honours degree or a Masters 
degree plus publications are generally required for admission. Good English and 
writing skills are essential. 

Deadline for applications: August 31, 2012 (or until filled) 
Start date: January-June, 2013 

1. The Child Language Lab at Macquarie University's Centre for Language 
Sciences has several positions for PhD students to conduct research on 
phonological and morphological development. We are especially interested in 
those with strong quantitative, experimental, and phonetics background to explore 
issues in early speech perception and production in typical, language/hearing 
impaired, bilingual, and L2 populations. 

The Centre for Language Sciences (CLaS) is housed in the Linguistics Department 
at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. It has close connections with the 
Department of Cognitive Science, and is part of the new Centre of Excellence for 
Cognition and its Disorders. All will be soon housed in the Australian Hearing Hub - 
a state-of the art hearing and language research 'hub', with MEG, EEG, infant 
speech perception lab, language production lab (including ultrasound), eye-
tracking, computational linguistics expertise, and many other research facilities. 

Contact Professor Katherine Demuth katherine.demuth at mq.edu.au 
or see http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/cll/ for more information. 

The following two PhD projects are housed in the Department of Computing, 
working closely with an interdisciplinary team of researchers in the Linguistics 
Department and Macquarie University's Centre for Language Sciences. Applicants 
should have a good background in mathematics and computer science, and be 
willing to learn linguistics as required. 

2. The first project involves developing computational models of human language 
acquisition. These models will be used to study synergies in the acquisition of one 
or more of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. The work 
involves novel computational approaches to modeling language acquisition, 
including hierarchical non-parametric Bayesian techniques. 

3. The second project involves incremental syntactic parsing and coreference 
resolution. This project has both engineering and psycholinguistic implications, and 
the candidate can choose which to focus on. For example, incremental syntactic 
parsing and coreference resolution could be coupled with a speech recognition 
system as part of an on-line speech recognition and interpretation system. It could 
also be used to make predictions about on-line sentence comprehension as part of 
a psycholinguistic model. 

Contact Professor Mark Johnson (Mark.Johnson at MQ.edu.au) or see 
http://web.science.mq.edu.au/~mjohnson/Recruiting.htm for more information. 

Application Deadline: 31-Aug-2012 

Web Address for Applications: http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/ 

Contact Information: 
	Katherine Demuth 
	katherine.demuth at mq.edu.au  

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