36.16, Jobs: English (eng); German (deu); Language Acquisition; Phonetics; Phonology; Pragmatics: Post-doctoral researcher, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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Subject: 36.16, Jobs: English (eng); German (deu); Language Acquisition; Phonetics; Phonology; Pragmatics: Post-doctoral researcher, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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Date: 07-Jan-2025
From: Sophie Repp [sophie.repp at uni-koeln.de]
Subject: English (eng); German (deu); Language Acquisition; Phonetics; Phonology; Pragmatics: Post-doctoral researcher, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany


Job Location: Cologne, Germany
Web Address: https://idsl1.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/
Job Title: Post-doctoral researcher
Job Rank: Researcher

Other Specialties: Gesture
Description:
The AHRC-DFG-funded QuBiSM project (Questions, Bias, Multimodality:
Negotiating Meaning in Interaction) invites applications for a
postdoctoral researcher position based in Cologne. The project, headed
by PIs Dr Johannes Heim (Aberdeen), Prof. Dr. Sophie Repp (Cologne)
and Dr Rebecca Woods (Newcastle), will examine the prosody and
co-speech gesture associated with negative questions in English and
German, as well as their acquisition. For a short summary, see
https://uni.koeln/ZZ5LU. There will be two post-doctoral research
positions in this project: one in the UK, one in Cologne. We are
advertising here the position in Cologne.  See the following link for
the official German job advertisement, which is binding for this
opening: https://uni.koeln/NVVLM
The position is a 33 month position starting 1st May 2025. The
candidate will undertake the following collaborative tasks:
- Corpus analysis of prosody and gesture of negative questions in
German speech corpora
- Statistical analysis and theoretical evaluation of the findings
- Publication of the results in peer-reviewed journals
- Travel (conferences, 6 monthly team meetings in person)
- Experimental research:
 -- Auditory production and perception of negative questions by German
children age 4-6 years; including recruitment of children
 -- Multimodal production of negative questions by German adults
(audio & video)
 -- Pragmatic judgements of negative questions (written and audio) by
German adults (online surveys)
The position requires the following profile:
- PhD in linguistics, psychology or related subject
- English language skills at (near) native level
- Essential: experience in language acquisition research, German
language skills at (near) native level
- Desirable: experience in phonetics / laboratory phonology and/or
gesture research and/or pragmatics
All applications must be submitted through the University of Cologne
application form. Please upload your application including CV,
certificates for required qualifications, PhD thesis and up to three
research articles (all in pdf) here: https://jobportal.uni-koeln.de.
Uploads are limited to 4 MB begrenzt. If your files are larger, you
may provide them with a download link. The job ID (Kennziffer) is:
Wiss2412-16.

Application Deadline: 31-Jan-2025
Email Address for Applications: sophie.repp at uni-koeln.de
Web Address for Applications: https://jobportal.uni-koeln.de
Contact Information:
        Sophie Repp
        Email: sophie.repp at uni-koeln.de
        Phone: +492214705235



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