36.3792, Support: Anthropological Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics: PhD, University of Zurich, Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution

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Date: 09-Dec-2025
From: Balthasar Bickel [dll_coordinator at isle.uzh.ch]
Subject: Anthropological Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics: PhD, University of Zurich, Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution


Institution/Organization: University of Zurich, Institute for the
Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution
Web Address:
https://www.isle.uzh.ch/en/jobs/phd-cross-linguistic-sentence-planning.html

Level: PhD

Duties: Research, Teaching, Project Work

Specialty Areas: Anthropological Linguistics; Cognitive Science;
Computational Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics

Description:

The Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution
(ISLE) at the University of Zurich (UZH)  invites applications for a
PhD position in a project that probes the neural correlates for
sentence planning cross-linguistically. The project is embedded in the
NCCR Evolving Language (www.evolvinglanguage.ch), a Swiss consortium
with the ambitious goal of creating a new discipline, Evolutionary
Language Science, that targets the past and future of language and
draws on expertise from the social, natural, and computational
sciences.
The successful applicant will design and conduct neurolinguistic
experiments that improve our understanding of sentence planning
processes as conditioned by maximally diverse languages. Based on
these you are expected to complete within 4 years 3 PhD dissertation
papers together with your supervisors and potentially other
contributors from the lab, the institute, or the NCCR consortium (as
the need and/or interest arises). You will determine the choice of
languages with your supervisor based on the specific research question
but we generally prefer areas where we already have active research
collaborations in psycho-/neuro-linguistics (Nepal, Vietnam, Peru, and
the Philippines).
You must have a background in linguistics, psycholinguistics or
cognitive neuroscience, with a Master’s degree on a related topic and
have good skills in data science (e.g. scripting in R or Python) and
statistics. Additional assets are experience with EEG (or
eye-tracking), and/or experience with fieldwork on underprivileged
languages. Candidates which lack one or both of these experiences are
expected to have strong motivation to learn at the beginning of the
PhD project.

Web Address for Applications:
https://www.isle.uzh.ch/en/jobs/phd-cross-linguistic-sentence-planning.html




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