37.288, Jobs: West Germanic; English, German; Language Acquisition, Phonetics, Psycholinguistics: Post-doctoral Position in Linguistics, University of Konstanz

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Date: 19-Jan-2026
From: Bettina Braun [Bettina.braun at uni-konstanz.de]
Subject: West Germanic; English, German; Language Acquisition, Phonetics, Psycholinguistics: Post-doctoral Position in Linguistics, University of Konstanz


Job Location: South-West of Germany, Germany
Web Address: https://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/en/
Job Title: Post-doctoral Position in Linguistics
Job Rank: Post Doc
Salary: Full-time position, German E 13 TV-L

Specialty Areas: Language Acquisition; Phonetics; Psycholinguistics

Specialty Language(s): English (eng)
                       German (deu)
                       West Germanic

Other Specialties: Eye-tracking, prosody
Description:
Reference no.: 2026/009. The start date is 1st April 2026 or soon
thereafter. The position is available until the end of 2029. In
principle, this position can be divided into two part-time positions.
The University of Konstanz is a dynamic and internationally successful
research university with approximately 10,000 stu- dents. The campus
university’s architecture promotes interdisciplinary cooperation and a
sense of community among re- searchers, lecturers and students. The
University of Konstanz has been continuously funded by the German
Excellence Strategy since 2006.
The newly granted SFB 1760 (https://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/sfb1760/)
investigates the role of silence and noise in our capacity for
perceiving, learning and producing linguistic signals. The first phase
will run from April 2026 to December 2029 and encompasses a wide
variety of theoretical, experimental, computational and empirical
research within linguis- tics, in collaboration with projects from
computer science, computational social science, media studies and
sociology. Project B05 (“Children’s Tuning in to Word Recognition”)
investigates whether variability in pitch accent and voice quality
affects the use of these cues in word recognition in young children
(18-month-olds, 20-month-olds, 22-month-olds) and adults. It ana-
lyzes natural variability in the children’s input, manipulates
short-term exposure and correlates variability with eye-tracking data.
Your Responsibilities:
- prosodically analyse infant-directed speech and code verbal and
non-verbal behaviour
- prepare familiarization phases with different kinds of variability
in pitch accents and voice quality
- set up and conduct eye-tracking experiments with children and adults
- supervise student assistants to help efficiently in recruitment,
testing, child coding and documentation
- analyze fixation data
- publish research findings
Your Profile:
- a very good PhD degree in linguistics, – speech and language
processing, phonetics, psycholinguistics or equiv- alent
- strong written and oral English lan- guage skills (B2 or higher)
- good command of German (to com- municate with parents) and good com-
munication skills
- experience with statistical data analy- sis (R, RStudio)
- experience with analysing prosody and/or with (infant) eyetracking
We Offer:
- an open, motivated research team and interdisciplinary research
environment
- opportunities for further collaboration with local research groups
- many possibilities to expand and develop your CV
- research support by student assistants
- excellent career and equal opportunity coaching

Application Deadline: 15-Feb-2026
Web Address for Applications:
https://stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2d6bcf74c60078dd2457869deca7f602219a02540
Application Instructions:
Please apply at the link provided. Applications should contain:
- motivation letter (maximum 2 pages)
- CV including 2 names of referees (maximum 4 pages)
- a writing sample (e.g. a submitted or published article, a chapter
of the thesis, the thesis)
- MA and PhD certificates
Incomplete applications cannot be considered
Contact Information:
        Bettina Braun
        Email: bettina.braun at uni-konstanz.de



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