36.3403, Support: Psycholinguistics: PhD, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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Subject: 36.3403, Support: Psycholinguistics: PhD, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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Date: 06-Nov-2025
From: Seckin Arslan [Seckin.ARSLAN at univ-cotedazur.fr]
Subject: Psycholinguistics: PhD, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Institution/Organization: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
(CNRS)

Level: PhD

Duties: Research

Specialty Areas: Psycholinguistics

Description:

Call for PhD position applications
General Information
Title of the offer: Thesis offer (M/F) - Cognitive aspects of language
contact in the Balkan language area
Place of work: Nice
Release date: 06/11/2025
Name of scientific responsible / Supervisor: Seçkin Arslan
Type of contract: CDD PhD student/doctoral contract
Contract duration: 36 months
Start date of the position: Open until filled, applications preferred
before March 2026.
Work shift: Full time
Host institute: Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
Workplace : CNRS - Université Côte d'Azur,
Unit / Laboratoire: BCL - Bases, Corpus, Langage - UMR 7320
Location: Campus Saint-Jean d'Angély - 25 avenue François Mitterrand -
Nice, France
Project Description:
Funded by the French National Agency (ANR), MindContact project aims
to explore cognitive aspects of contact-induced language change in the
Balkan peninsula. Blending psycholinguistic perspectives with contact
linguistics, this project takes contact phenomena in the Balkan
language area under scrutiny.  The Balkans are a melting pot of
grammars, where different morphosyntactic features of different
languages blend due to extensive language contact. In this project, we
focus on ‘minoritized’ language varieties including non-standard
minoritized languages under contact (e.g., Romani, Pomak,
Judeo-Espagnol/Ladino) and regional variants under contact (e.g., Asia
Minor Greek, Rumelian Turkish). A particular concentration of the PhD
candidate’s research would be conducted on the following grammatical
phenomena: tense/aspect, evidentiality, indefinite articles, phrase
structure and word orders across one or two of the above mentioned
minoritized languages spoken under dominant societal languages
including South Slavic languages, Modern Standard Greek and/or
Turkish. MindContact explores cognitive mechanisms of language change
by investigating, cross-linguistic structural priming,  codeswitching,
and chunking. The PhD candidate will be responsible, under the
supervision of the scientific supervisor, for building
psycholinguistic experiments using behavioral, eye-movement monitoring
and electrophysiological experiments and running these experiments
under experimental fieldwork expeditions, analysing these data and
drafting/submitting articles for publication.
Desired Qualifications:
The PhD candidate is required to hold a master’s degree with A level
grades in linguistics, cognitive science, psychology or related fields
with a strong background in psycholinguistic methods including
behavioral response times experiments, as well as eye-movement
monitoring and electrophysiological experiments, demonstrated by a
completed research thesis, publications and/or comparable duration of
internships in experimental labs.
The PhD candidate is expected to have an excellent command of at least
one and a working command of another demographically societal Balkan
language, and is preferred to be a speaker of the minoritized language
under scrutiny developed in their research proposal. Candidates from
the minority communities with required qualifications are encouraged
to apply.
Excellent fluency in academic English is required, knowledge of French
is not required but desired.
Applications:
Applications should be made by email to
Seckin.ARSLAN at univ-cotedazur.fr, if possible in a single PDF file with
the name of candidate mentioning ‘MindContact PhD project’ including
the following documents.
- Detailed CV
- A motivation letter (max. 1 page)
- Description of the research project (max. 5 pages), research
projects without a close relation to the above project description
will not be further considered.
- Copy of certificates and transcripts of previous undergraduate and
graduate education
- Contact details of one or two referents, including information on
the relationship of the candidate to the referee.
Further Information:
Project funded by French National Agency (ANR)
Call opening date: 06/11/2025
Call for projects type: Doctoral Research
Renumeration: monthly doctoral salary is around 1700€ per month (net).
Closing date: Open until filled.
Call for projects scope : International
Languages concerned: Projects on Balkan languages may be considered
but priority will be given on projects investigating psycholinguistic
aspects closely related to above described dominant and minoritized
languages.

Mailing Address for Applications:
        France
Email Address for Applications: Seckin.ARSLAN at univ-cotedazur.fr

Contact Information:
Seckin Arslan

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