30.2241, Support: Clinical Linguistics; Phonetics: PhD, CNRS

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Subject: 30.2241, Support: Clinical Linguistics; Phonetics: PhD, CNRS

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Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 23:32:48
From: Seckin Arslan [seckin1984 at gmail.com]
Subject: Clinical Linguistics; Phonetics: PhD, CNRS, France

 Institution/Organization: CNRS 
Department: BCL 
Web Address: https://bcl.cnrs.fr/?lang=en 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: Applied Linguistics; Clinical Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Morphology; Neurolinguistics; Phonetics; Phonology; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax 
 

Description:

Reference : UMR7320-FANMEU0-001
Workplace : NICE
Date of publication : Sunday, May 19, 2019
Scientific Responsible name : Fanny Meunier
Type of Contract : PhD Student contract / Thesis offer
Contract Period : 36 months
Start date of the thesis : 1 October 2019
Proportion of work : Full time
Remuneration : 2 135,00 € gross monthly

In this PhD. project, we will study how we process non-standard speech sounds.
Newborns can discriminate all the sounds of world's languages and it's the
exposure to a mother tongue that will restructure perceptual abilities into
phonological abilities specific to that language. As a result, children will
quickly become ''deaf'' or at least less sensitive to linguistic features that
are not relevant and useful in their native language. Yet our system must also
be flexible because we are regularly in contact with non-standard productions,
such as the ones of a person with a strong accent or a person with a cold and
a stuffy nose. The perceptual flexibility necessary to understand a message is
essential and yet extremely variable from one individual to another
(Perrone-Bertolotti, Tassin & Meunier, 2017). In previous studies, we were
interested in an extreme case of this non-standard speech, the whistled
speech, a natural adaptation of speech (Meyer, Dentel and Meunier, 2017). The
interindividual variability observed in the capacity to perceive and therefore
to understand non-standard speech is very important even in individuals
without auditory or language impairments. It becomes extreme for individuals
who have even slight hearing losses. In this thesis, we will explore these
differences in order to characterize more finely on the one hand the speech
signal alterations that generate the most divergent perceptions and on the
other hand the alterations that are most easily compensated by the system.
Thus we will be able to define the limits of speech variability for which the
message remains understandable. This work will be based on acoustic analyzes
of language productions and the setting up of psycholinguistic experiments.
This thesis work will therefore aim to capture the acoustic features necessary
for the understanding of speech and their resistance to alterations, while
taking into account the interindividual variabilities through the
characteristics of individuals and situations of communication.

See details:
https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Doctorant/UMR7320-FANMEU0-001/Default.aspx?lang=
EN
 

Application Deadline: 15-Jun-2019 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: Dr. Fanny Meunier 
	CNRS, BCL 
	Nice 06000 
	France 
	
Web Address for Applications: https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Doctorant/UMR7320-FANMEU0-001/Default.aspx?lang=EN 

Contact Information: 
	Dr. Fanny Meunier 
	Fanny.MEUNIER at unice.fr  


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