34.3326, Support: Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics, Psycholinguistics: PhD, Institute for Language Sciences (ILS) - Utrecht University

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Subject: 34.3326, Support: Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics, Psycholinguistics: PhD, Institute for Language Sciences (ILS) - Utrecht University

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Date: 03-Nov-2023
From: Jakub Dotlacil [j.dotlacil at uu.nl]
Subject: Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics, Psycholinguistics: PhD, Institute for Language Sciences (ILS) - Utrecht University


Institution/Organization: Institute for Language Sciences (ILS) -
Utrecht University
Department: Languages, Literature and Communication
Web Address:
https://www.uu.nl/en/research/institute-for-language-sciences

Level: PhD

Specialty Areas: Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; General
Linguistics; Psycholinguistics

Description:

We are offering two fully funded PhD positions in linguistics and
related fields.

The PhD positions are part of a new project financed by European
Research Council (ERC). The title of the project is “Memory access in
language: how we store and retrieve linguistic information”.

We are seeking to hire highly motivated, driven, and talented PhD
students to take active part in this project for a period of four
years. The project will be carried out at the Institute for Language
Sciences (ILS) at Utrecht University. You will be working in an
interdisciplinary team with researchers from the fields of
linguistics, psychology and artificial intelligence.

Project description:
This project aims to develop, implement and test a general model of
memory that can provide insights into how we store and retrieve
linguistic information and how our language use is intertwined with
memory when we communicate. The model to be developed and tested will
be hybrid in the sense that it merges linguistic factors uncovered in
computational and theoretical linguistics with general cognitive
mechanisms. The overarching goal is to find out how the model of
memory can be generalized across various linguistic domains, from the
lexicon through syntax to discourse semantics, and how the memory
model can help us predict diverse quantitative data in linguistics and
cognitive science.

There are two components in the project: an empirical one and a
computational one. The empirical component of the project will consist
in developing, carrying out and analyzing experiments that collect
behavioral data (e.g., reaction times, eye fixations) or EEG data. The
computational modelling component will involve simulating behavioral
and neural data connected to processing and memory retrieval.

The project will involve 2 PhD students and 2 post-doctoral
researchers (who will join the project later). While the focus of the
PhD students should be on the empirical component of the project, they
will be encouraged to cross over to the computational component of the
project. The following link provides more information about the
project and the tasks of the PhD candidates:
https://www.jakubdotlacil.com/projects.html.

For questions about the positions, please contact the contact listed
below.

Application Deadline: 20-Nov-2023

Web Address for Applications: https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/workin
g-at-utrecht-university/jobs/two-phd-positions-in-memory-access-in-lan
guage-10-fte

Contact Information:
Jakub Dotlacil:
j.dotlacil at uu.nl



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