[parislinguists] Fwd: [phonlist] post doctoral position at Loria

[Karl Erland Gadelii]

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> Från: Anne Bonneau <anne.bonneau at loria.fr>
> Datum: den 16 mars 2004 12.09.41 MET
> Till: phonetics at topica.com
> Ämne: [phonlist] post doctoral position at Loria
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> Post doctoral position at Loria
> Anne Bonneau, Vincent Colotte, Yves Laprie
> Speech Team at LORIA
> Nancy, France
> http://www.loria.fr/
> http://www.loria.fr/equipes/parole (speech team)
>
> Automatic feedbacks for the acquisition of L2 prosody.
>
> The aim of the work is to provide learners of a second language (L2) 
> with automatic feedbacks in order to improve their production of L2 
> prosody. We are especially interested in the acquisition of English 
> prosody by French learners.
>
> The work can be divided into two parts.
> The first one concerns the design and implementation of an algorithm 
> devoted to the detection of important deviations in the realization of 
> the prosodic cues of a second language. These deviations will be 
> detected by comparing the productions of the same sentence by a native 
> speaker and a learner. The strategy will exploit knowledge about L1 
> and L2 prosodies. In order to develop the algorithm, the post doctoral 
> student will have at his disposal a set of sentences uttered by 
> English speakers and French students. The student will benefit from 
> the tools developed in our team : an algorithm for the automatic 
> alignment of phoneme labels onto a speech signal, as well as WinSnoori 
> (http://www.loria.fr/~laprie/WinSnoori).
>
> The second part of the work concerns the implementation and the test 
> of some prosodic models which generate prosody from text. The student 
> will investigate whether these models can be of interest in the 
> acquisition of prosody.
> This project is clearly pluri-disciplinary since it involves studies 
> in speech prosody, speech signal processing and language learning.
>
> The research topics investigated by the speech team in LORIA are 
> speech perception,  processing and automatic recognition. Moreover, 
> this proposal comes within the framework of a project about an 
> advanced assistance for language learning, supported by the Lorraine 
> Region, and will offer the opportunity of working with teachers of 
> foreign languages.
>
> Contacts: Please send emails to:
> Anne.Bonneau at loria.fr, Vincent.Colotte at loria.fr, Yves.Laprie at loria.fr
>
> Desired profile for the candidate :
> The candidate should have a strong knowledge in speech processing, 
> prosody and C++.
> Application file : a curriculum vitae, a copy of the doctoral 
> dissertation, If possible, doctoral committee reports and one to three 
> letters of recommendation.
> Conditions of application : be less than 35 years at the end of 2004, 
> French nationality not accepted, the candidate should not have 
> obtained his/her PhD in a French laboratory.
> Nominal duration of the fellowship : 12 months
> Deadline for returning application files : April 12, 2004.
> Context : the position is to be provided during a campaign by the 
> French ministry of research
> Final selection by the ministry : from June, 21.
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Karl Erland Gadelii
Inst f lingvistik
Box 200
Göteborgs Universitet
tel 031 773 1176
fax 031 773 4853
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