33.2042, Support: Catalan-Valencian-Balear; Romance; Phonetics; Phonology; Pragmatics: PhD, Goethe University Frankfurt

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Subject: 33.2042, Support: Catalan-Valencian-Balear; Romance; Phonetics; Phonology; Pragmatics: PhD, Goethe University Frankfurt

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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 22:51:59
From: Frank Kügler [kuegler at em.uni-frankfurt.de]
Subject: Catalan-Valencian-Balear; Romance; Phonetics; Phonology; Pragmatics: PhD, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

 Institution/Organization: Goethe University Frankfurt 
Department: Department of Linguistics 
Web Address: https://www.linguistik-in-frankfurt.de/ 

Level: PhD 

Specialty Areas: Phonetics; Phonology; Pragmatics 
 
Required Language(s): Catalan-Valencian-Balear (cat)

                      Romance 

Description:

The Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main is one of the largest
universities in Germany with around 48,000 students and with about 5,000
employees. Founded in 1914 by Frankfurt citizens and since 2008 once again
proud of its foundation status Goethe University possesses a high degree of
autonomy, modernity and professional diversity. As a comprehensive university,
the Goethe University offers a total of 16 departments on five campuses and
more than 100 degree programs along with an outstanding research reputation.
The Institute of Linguistics at the Department of Modern Languages of Goethe
University Frankfurt am Main offers a position in cotutelle with the
Department of Translation and Language Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra,
Barcelona, in the project “Co-Speech Gestures and Prosody as Multimodal
Markers of Information Structure” as a Doctoral Researcher (E13 TV-GU, 65%
part-time) starting October 1st 2022 funded for 3 years by the German Science
Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG). The salary grade includes
social benefits and is based on the job characteristics of the collective
agreement applicable to Goethe University (TV-G-U). 

We offer a 3-year doctoral co-tutelle position to work within a collaborative
team. The main focus of the doctoral research will be to assess the multimodal
markers of IS in Catalan. The project will be run in close collaboration with
the team assessing the multimodal markers of IS in German. The two teams
involved are the Prosodic Studies Group at UPF (IP: Dr. Pilar Prieto)
and the Phonology Lab at the Institute of Linguistics in Frankfurt (PI: Dr.
Frank Kügler). The project is part of the DFG Priority Progamme 2329 “Visual
Communication” (https://vicom.info).
The ideal candidate has a strong background in linguistics and linguistic
experimentation, is highly motivated and interested in the assessment of
prosodic and gestural markers in language. Knowledge of Catalan will be
required to run the experiments. To qualify for a doctoral position in
Linguistics the candidate should hold a master’s degree in Linguistics,
Philology, Psychology, or equivalent.

Doctoral students are expected to participate actively in the project and the
two department’s activities. The position comes with no teaching obligation.

The application in English should consist of one pdf file containing:
 - A letter of intent describing your research interests and motivation for
PhD studies (maximum one page)
 - CV
 - English certificate of your BA and MA degree (or equivalent) with a
transcript of records 
 - A maximum 3-page research proposal which states a research question related
to the project, describes the methodology and work plan, and contextualises
the expected results in relation to the state of the art. The actual
dissertation project of the successful candidate will be worked out in
collaboration with the supervisor. 
 - One or two letters of reference
 - Other documents which the applicant would like to include

All required documents should be emailed as a pdf file (preferably as one
document) to Frank Kügler (Kuegler at em.uni-frankfurt.de) and Pilar Prieto
(pilar.prieto at upf.edu) up to July 15, 2022. For more information, please
contact Frank Kügler and Pilar Prieto.

The Goethe University is committed to a policy of providing equal employment
opportunities for both men and women alike, and therefore encourages
particularly women to apply for the position/s offered. Individuals with
severe disability will be prioritized in case of equal qualification.
 

Application Deadline: 15-Jul-2022 

Contact Information: 
	Prof. Dr. Frank Kügler
	kuegler at em.uni-frankfurt.de  


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