23.2624, Support: English, French, Disc Analysis, Text/Corpus Ling: PhD Student, University of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve), Belgium

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Subject: 23.2624, Support: English, French, Disc Analysis, Text/Corpus Ling: PhD Student, University of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve), Belgium

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Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:20:08
From: Liesbeth Degand [liesbeth.degand at uclouvain.be]
Subject: English, French, Disc Analysis, Text/Corpus Ling: PhD Student, University of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve), Belgium

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 Institution/Organization: University of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve) 
Department: Institute for Language and Communication 
Web Address: http://www.uclouvain.be/ilc 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: Discourse Analysis; Text/Corpus Linguistics 
 
Required Language(s): English (eng)
                      French (fra) 

Description:

The Institute for Language and Communication at the Université catholique de 
Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) has three PhD openings within the framework 
of the research project 'Fluency and disfluency markers. A multimodal contrastive 
perspective' conducted jointly by the CECL (Centre for English Corpus 
Linguistics), VALIBEL - Discours et Variation  and CENTAL (Centre de traitement 
automatique du langage) in collaboration with the University of Namur (Namur 
Research College). The aim of the research project is to investigate markers of 
fluency and disfluency in spoken and sign language, focusing on three main 
modalities: first language discourse (French and English), (advanced) foreign 
language discourse (English), and sign language (Belgian French). Our central 
working hypothesis will be that fluency and disfluency markers are two faces of 
the same phenomenon. We will furthermore assume that their forms and functions 
vary systematically according to the language, speakers, and discourse genres at 
stake. The methodological approach will be that of corpus analysis (corpus-based 
and corpus-driven).

The selected candidates will be engaged in a 4-year PhD project under the 
supervision of one or two of the six promoters of the research project in the 
following three areas:

-  PhD 1: Prosodic markers of fluency and disfluency in spoken French
-  PhD 2: Fluency and disfluency in English native and learner speech
-  PhD 3: Discourse markers as (dis)fluency markers in English and French 
speech

Profile:

-  Master in linguistics or modern languages (major in linguistics), with honours
-  Native or near-native speaker of French (PhD 1) or English (PhD 2) and very 
good knowledge of both languages for PhD 3
-  High level of academic English
-  Good knowledge of linguistic statistics or commitment to acquire it
-  Familiarity with corpus linguistic methods and tools
-  Dynamic and motivated
-  Capacity to work independently and as part of a team
-  Previous experience with the analysis of spoken language and/or discourse 
features is an asset 

We offer a motivating research environment with many opportunities for 
collaboration with other researchers working on the same project. The salary 
consists of a PhD grant including social security (+/- 1500 € net/month).

Additional information:

Institute for Language and Communication: www.uclouvain.be/ilc 
(Dis)fluency project: http://www.uclouvain.be/415256.html
Centre for English Corpus Linguistics: www.uclouvain.be/cecl
CENTAL: www.uclouvain.be/cental
Valibel - Discours & Variation: www.uclouvain.be/valibel 

Application Deadline: 01-Oct-2012 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: Prof Liesbeth Degand 
	Insitute for Language and Communication 
	Place B. Pascal 1; L3.03.33 
	Louvain-la-Neuve 1348 
	Belgium 
	
Contact Information: 
	Prof Liesbeth Degand 
	liesbeth.degand at uclouvain.be  





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