36.2060, Jobs: Western Nilotic; Computational Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Language Documentation, Morphology, Text/Corpus Linguistics: Research Fellow in Language Data Science, University of Surrey

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Date: 03-Jul-2025
From: Matthew Baerman [m.baerman at surrey.ac.uk]
Subject: Western Nilotic; Computational Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Language Documentation, Morphology, Text/Corpus Linguistics: Research Fellow in Language Data Science, University of Surrey


Job Location: United Kingdom
Web Address: https://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/
Job Title: Research Fellow in Language Data Science
Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Historical Linguistics;
Language Documentation; Morphology; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Specialty Language(s): Western Nilotic

Description:
We are seeking qualified applicants for a position as Language Data
Scientist on the ERC Synergy grant ‘NILOMORPH: The evolution of
suprasegmental morphology in West Nilotic’, led by Matthew Baerman.
The successful candidate will perform a key role in managing,
processing and analyzing language data generated across the multiple
teams that make up the project. The position is based at the Surrey
Morphology Group at the University of Surrey, in Guildford, UK, and
provides the opportunity to work in the vibrant and highly collegial
research environment for which the SMG is renowned.
The NILOMORPH project aims to reconstruct the morphological evolution
of the West Nilotic languages, spoken primarily in South Sudan and
neighboring countries. These languages have developed some of the most
remarkable morphological systems on the planet, where simultaneous
manipulation of multiple phonological features (vowel length, vowel
height, tone, phonation type) results in enormous paradigms marked
solely by the modulation of vowel properties. The NILOMORPH combines
fieldwork, experimental methods, and historical linguistics to account
for the phonological, morphological and psycholinguistic pathways that
led to this unique outcome. The project is spread across multiple
teams, based in the UK, France, Germany and the USA, and will make use
of a diverse range of language data taken from multiple sources:
ongoing fieldwork, previous studies, text corpora and newly-generated
reconstructions, as well as well as the results of computational
simulations and artificial language learning experiments.
The successful candidate will develop and execute a set of data
management and analysis tools will enable the diverse international
team of researchers to create, access and manipulate the language data
that is central to the NILOMORPH project. As a core member of the
Surrey-based team, the successful candidate will provide expert
guidance on methods and tools for data analysis, including data
design, data management protocols and statistical analysis. They will
collaborate closely in the writing and dissemination of papers and
presentations, and be expected to take initiative in the formulation
of the research agenda. They will also participate in the broader
activities both of the NILOMORPH group and of the Surrey Morphology
Group (SMG). The candidate will have opportunities at SMG to develop
their research leadership profile while interacting with world-class
researchers.

Application Deadline: 11-Aug-2025
Web Address for Applications:
https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=031325
Contact Information:
        Matthew Baerman
        Email: m.baerman at surrey.ac.uk



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