34.73, Support: Language Acquisition; Romance; Portuguese: PhD, Université du Luxembourg

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Subject: 34.73, Support: Language Acquisition; Romance; Portuguese: PhD, Université du Luxembourg

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From: Constanze Weth [constanze.weth at uni.lu]
Subject: Language Acquisition; Romance; Portuguese: PhD, Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg


Institution/Organization: Université du Luxembourg
Department: e Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
(FHSE)
Web Address: https://wwwen.uni.lu/fhse

Level: PhD

Duties: Research

Specialty Areas: Language Acquisition
Required Language(s): Portuguese (por)
                      Romance

Description:

Under the direction of Prof. Dr. Constanze Weth, the doctoral
researcher will conduct research on Portuguese as a heritage language
in Luxembourg with a focus on written Portuguese in contact with
French, Luxembourgish and German.

The doctoral researcher will conduct research under the guidance of a
supervisory team including local and international experts, with the
aim of studying towards a doctoral degree (cumulative, i.e., based on
peer-reviewed publications) in Linguistics.

The doctoral researcher will build up a corpus of written data in
Portuguese and the contact languages in Luxembourg, French,
Luxembourgish, and German. The researcher will analyze the data with a
focus on grammar and spelling. The research project includes the
collection and analysis of experimental data.

The PhD project is embedded in a larger project at the intersection of
grammar and spelling.

What we expect from you…
 - Master in linguistics, language education or psychology
 - Competence in language variation, heritage language, written
language
 - Competence in corpus linguistics is a plus
 - Competence in statistics is a plus
 - Excellent oral and written competences in Portuguese
 - Excellent oral and written competences in French and / or German
and good competences in the respective other language
 - Excellent written competences in English are a plus
 - The willingness to learn Luxembourgish

Web Address for Applications: https://recruitment.uni.lu/en/details.ht
ml?id=QMUFK026203F3VBQB7V7VV4S8&nPostingID=80196&nPostingTargetID=1180
59&mask=karriereseiten&lg=UK

Contact Information:
Prof. Dr. Constanze Weth
constanze.weth at uni.lu



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