36.3436, Support: Dutch, English; Language Acquisition, Phonetics, Psycholinguistics: PhD, Institute for Language Sciences - Utrecht University

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Subject: 36.3436, Support: Dutch, English; Language Acquisition, Phonetics, Psycholinguistics: PhD, Institute for Language Sciences - Utrecht University

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Date: 10-Nov-2025
From: Frans Adriaans [f.w.adriaans at uu.nl]
Subject: Dutch, English; Language Acquisition, Phonetics, Psycholinguistics: PhD, Institute for Language Sciences - Utrecht University


Institution/Organization: Institute for Language Sciences (ILS) -
Utrecht University
Web Address:
https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/phd-on-early-bilingual-language-development

Level: PhD

Duties: Research

Specialty Areas: Language Acquisition; Phonetics; Psycholinguistics
Required Language(s): Dutch (nld)
                      English (eng)

Description:

Utrecht University is looking for a PhD candidate in Early Bilingual
Language Development. In this NWO-funded project, led by PI dr. Frans
Adriaans, you study how the speech sounds that bilingual infants hear
at home guide their discovery of two languages.
Bilingual infants have astonishing learning capabilities that allow
them to learn sound properties of two different languages in the first
year of life. But how do they discover and distinguish two languages
in their speech environment? In this project, you study how the speech
sounds that infants hear at home guide their discovery of two
languages. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the project aims to
collect and analyse bilingual infant-directed speech, test infants’
reliance on sound cues, and use computational models to simulate the
learning of two languages from speech.
In the PhD subproject, you work with Dutch-English bilingual families
to collect and analyse a corpus of bilingual infant-directed speech.
You also study bilingual infants’ language discrimination skills using
headturn-preference experiments. In this research programme, you work
in an interdisciplinary team with researchers from the fields of
linguistics, psychology, and artificial intelligence. You receive
assistance from student assistants in data collection and/or data
processing and develop your academic teaching skills (during your
project). The project will be carried out at the Institute for
Language Sciences (ILS), at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
Please see the application website below for further information and
job requirements.

Application Deadline: 01-Dec-2025

Web Address for Applications:
https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/phd-on-early-bilingual-language-development




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