30.3886, Support: General Linguistics; Morphology; Phonetics; Phonology; Psycholinguistics: PhD, University of Melbourne

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Subject: 30.3886, Support: General Linguistics; Morphology; Phonetics; Phonology; Psycholinguistics: PhD, University of Melbourne

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Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 13:48:28
From: Brett Baker [bjbaker at unimelb.edu.au]
Subject: General Linguistics; Morphology; Phonetics; Phonology; Psycholinguistics: PhD, University of Melbourne, Australia

 Institution/Organization: University of Melbourne 
Department: School of Languages and Linguistics 
Web Address: https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/school-of-languages-and-linguistics 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research,Project Work
 
Specialty Areas: General Linguistics; Morphology; Phonetics; Phonology; Psycholinguistics 
 

Description:

Applications and enquiries are invited from qualified and motivated students
wishing to pursue a PhD degree. The PhD is funded by an Australian Research
Council Discovery Project (“1 potato, 2 wotatoes, 3 otatoes: Lexical access in
Australian languages”) which examines issues of word processing, lexical
access, and phonological and morphological theory in a range of Australian
languages with very complex morphological systems.

The successful applicant will receive a PhD stipend (AU$26,694/year for 3
years), plus funding of fieldwork costs (travel, accommodation, payments to
participants). The candidate will be based at the University of Melbourne, in
the heart of one of the world’s most liveable cities. The University of
Melbourne is consistently rated one of the best in Australia (#32 Times Higher
Education ranking), and the Linguistics program is also one of the world's
best (#22 QS Top Universities ranking), with specialists in Australian
Indigenous Languages, speech science, and language acquisition. 
The PhD project will involve fieldwork on a language of Maningrida with
(depending on the candidate's interests) focus on areas such as phonology,
morphology, and experimental psycholinguistics. All these languages are
prefixing, non-Pama-Nyungan languages with a complex morpho-phonology. These
languages are among a handful which are still being acquired by children, and
with hundreds of speakers.

The PhD offers an opportunity to develop your interests in language
documentation and description, in quantitative analysis, experimental design,
psycholinguistics, language processing, speech science, and in evaluation of
theories of the word. The successful candidate will join an energetic team
whose combined expertise covers all of these research areas, and who can offer
you training to develop your knowledge in these areas. The principal
supervisor is A/Prof Brett Baker (https://unimelb.academia.edu/BrettBaker),
with the collaboration of the other Chief Investigators A/Prof Mark Harvey
(UNewcastle, Australia), A/Prof Robert Mailhammer (Western Sydney U), and Dr
Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (WSU/Newcastle).

We welcome applicants from a range of backgrounds, who are keen to apply their
skills to linguistic analysis, field work and experimental linguistics. In
particular, the project is suitable for candidates with strong interests in
applying new methods to empirical linguistics as well as phonetics and
phonology.

The successful applicant should: 
- Hold qualifications and experience of one of the following kinds (i) an
Australian First Class Bachelor (Honours) degree, (ii) coursework Masters with
at least 25% research component with a final result above 80%, (iii) Research
Masters degree, or (iv) equivalent overseas qualifications. 
- Demonstrate strong academic performance in linguistics.
- Have experience with or be willing to learn experimental approaches to
language description, especially in phonetics/phonology and psycholinguistics.
- Be enthusiastic and highly motivated to undertake further study at an
advanced level.

International applicants must also meet English language proficiency
standards. (See https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/2019/subjects/ling80001 for an
overview of requirements for entry and completion).

Deadline: 15-Nov-2019 (midnight, Australian Eastern Standard time).

Applicants should send initial enquiries to A/Prof Baker as listed below, with
an outline of how they meet the requirements, accompanied by academic
transcripts (statements of results, translated into English if necessary), and
the names and contact details of 3 academic referees who can comment
knowledgeably on their skills and experience.
 

Application Deadline: 15-Nov-2019 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: Assoc Prof Brett Baker 
	School of Languages and Linguistics 
	Parkville Victoria 3010 
	Australia 
	
Contact Information: 
	Assoc Prof Brett Baker 
	bjbaker at unimelb.edu.au 
	Phone:+61 39035 4687  


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