31.3084, Support: General Linguistics: PhD, Rovira i Virgili University

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Subject: 31.3084, Support: General Linguistics: PhD, Rovira i Virgili University

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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 11:34:20
From: Evelina Leivada [evelina.leivada at urv.cat]
Subject: General Linguistics: PhD, Rovira i Virgili University, Spain

 Institution/Organization: Rovira i Virgili University 
Department: English and German Studies 
Web Address: http://www.deaa.urv.cat/en/ 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: General Linguistics 
 

Description:

A PhD position is offered for the project "Grammar, grammaticality and
acceptability". The aim of this project is to investigate the notions of
acceptability and grammaticality through running various types of
acceptability judgment tasks.

Acceptability judgments are a reliable tool in linguistic research that can
provide valuable insights into grammar, eventually giving rise to what has
been called the evidential base of linguistics. Although acceptability
judgments are robust and reliable indicators of one's perception of her/his
linguistic repertoire, human cognition is fallible to processing biases and
heuristics of various types. The ways these biases impact acceptability
judgments are still to be determined.

This project will address this question through administering acceptability
and other types of tasks in neurotypical populations. The project will deal
with various grammatical representations, also taking into account the
interests and competences of the selected fellow.

Emphasis will be given to ensuring a gender balance in the implementation of
this project. The supervisors commit to promote gender equality in the
research team that will host the fellow, both in terms of human resources, but
also in terms of content. Moreover, gender will be included as one of the
possible predictors/factors in the analysis of the results. 

More information about the fellowship:
https://www.urv.cat/en/research/support/programmes/marti-franques/cofund/

More information about the specific project can be found at the application
link provided below.
 

Web Address for Applications: https://www.sgr.urv.cat/cgi-bin/programes/mfpcofund/detalles.cgi?conv=2020MFP-COFUND-&ordre=19&idioma=ENG 

Contact Information: 
	Dr. Evelina Leivada
	evelina.leivada at urv.cat  


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