33.1336, Jobs: Phonetics; Phonology: 2-year Post-Doc Position in Experimental Phonetics/Laboratory Phonology in Paris, Ecole Normale Supérieure

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Subject: 33.1336, Jobs: Phonetics; Phonology: 2-year Post-Doc Position in Experimental Phonetics/Laboratory Phonology in Paris, Ecole Normale Supérieure

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Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 17:18:21
From: Maria Giavazzi [maria.giavazzi at gmail.com]
Subject: Phonetics; Phonology: 2-year Post-Doc Position in Experimental Phonetics/Laboratory Phonology in Paris, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

University or Organization: Ecole Normale Supérieure 
Department: Department of Cognitive Science (DEC)
Job Location: Paris, France 
Web Address: https://cognition.ens.fr/en
Job Title: 2-year Post-Doc Position in Experimental Phonetics/Laboratory Phonology in Paris
Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Phonetics; Phonology; Laboratory Phonology

Description:

The Department of Cognitive Studies at Ecole Normale Supérieure is offering a
two-year postdoctoral researcher position on a project on the effects of
word-level prosodic prominence on articulatory and aerodynamic properties of
speech sounds (PI: Maria Giavazzi).

The postdoc's primary responsibility will be to conduct research in acoustic
and articulatory phonetics, with a possible link to perceptual investigations.
The French National Research Agency (ANR) grant DIA-SYN-PHON (PI: Maria
Giavazzi) aims to understand the articulatory, acoustic and perceptual bases
of prosodically conditioned phonological alternations, and to test the
hypothesis that their typology emerges diachronically from the phonetic
effects of prominence enhancement. The project brings together a wide range of
experimental methodologies, ranging from linguistic typology, speech
perception, acoustic and articulatory phonetics, to speech motor control,
artificial grammar learning and computational modeling. Connections between
linguistics and other fields in cognitive science beyond phonetics and
laboratory phonology are welcome.

The position has a career development component: the selected applicant will
be encouraged to develop their own research program using the time and
resources of the lab, specifics to be discussed at the moment of hiring. While
this is primarily a research position, it might also involve small
organizational responsibilities. Regular participation in collective
scientific activities (e.g. seminars and lab meetings) will be expected.

The postdoc will be affiliated to Department of cognitive studies of the ENS
(DEC). The postdoc will be integrated into the transversal team DEC
Linguistics, which offers a rich interdisciplinary environment. The postdoc
will work in tight collaboration with Anne Hermes at Laboratoire de Phonétique
et Phonologie (LPP, Sorbonne Nouvelle), who will co-supervise the position
together with Maria Giavazzi, and with Ioana Chitoran (CLILLAC-ARP, U. de
Paris), Cécile Fougeron (LPP, Sorbonne Nouvelle) and Sharon Peperkamp (LSCP,
DEC, ENS-PSL), the other collaborators on the project. The DEC and the LPP are
both located in the 5th arrondissement in Paris, a few minutes walking
distance apart. The postdoc will have access to the DEC behavioral platform at
ENS and to the speech physiology platform of the LPP (Sorbonne Nouvelle),
which an EMA (AG501) device. A RespTrack device using Respiratory Inductance
Plethysmography will be acquired.

The successful applicant will have a strong background in speech production
and in at least one of the following areas:
  - articulation (EMA, ultrasound)
  - speech aerodynamics (RespTrack…)

Previous experience with phonetic and articulatory aspects study of prosody
will be considered a plus, but it’s not a requirement. The candidate should be
able to contribute to the different phases of the project, in terms of corpus
design, data collection and analysis, and paper write-up. Knowledge in MATLAB,
Praat, Python, R (at least a subset of these) is required.

Starting date: Preferably September 1, 2022. The applicant's PhD should have
been defended and filed by the starting date.

Please send your application in a single email and include contact information
for three references. All communication and materials should be addressed to
the PI’s at the email address below. The file must include:
  - a CV
  - a brief statement of research interests (up to 2 pages)
  - a selection of published or unpublished papers or dissertation chapters
(up to 2)

Include in the subject of your email the string (DIA-SYN-PHON-postdoc)

More info here:
https://sites.google.com/site/mariagiavazzi/projects?authuser=0

Application Deadline: 01-Jun-2022 

Email Address for Applications: maria.giavazzi at gmail.com 
Contact Information:
	Prof. Maria Giavazzi 
	Email: maria.giavazzi at gmail.com 

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