Fwd: 13.2842, Support: Audiovisual Prosody: PhD Tilburg U, Netherlands

[Christopher Miller]

This seems a very interesting project for anyone interested in visual
prosody in sign and its counterparts in face-to-face spoken
communication...

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> Date:  Tue, 05 Nov 2002 05:26:30 +0000
> From:  m.g.j.swerts at tue.nl
> Subject:  Support: Audiovisual Prosody: PhD student, Tilburg Univ,
> Netherlands
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> Date:  Tue, 05 Nov 2002 05:26:30 +0000
> From:  m.g.j.swerts at tue.nl
> Subject:  Support: Audiovisual Prosody: PhD student, Tilburg Univ,
> Netherlands
>
> University or Organization: Tilburg University
> Department: Faculty of Arts
> Rank: PhD student
> Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics, Phonetics, Pragmatics,
> audiovisual prosody
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>
> Description:
>
> The VIDI-project "Functions of audiovisual prosody" is concerned with
> a functional approach to verbal and visual prosody in spoken
> conversations. The problem to be addressed in the project is about the
> combined use of specific auditive cues (such as intonation, tempo, and
> pausing) and specific visual cues (such as facial expressions and
> specific body gestures) for marking different dialogue phenomena. The
> ultimate goal of the project is to create an empirically based,
> computational model of audiovisual prosody that can be used both for
> production and perception, which computes the communicative function
> of an utterance by integrating the contribution of cues from different
> sources (visual, verbal and lexico-syntactic).
>
> We are looking for a PhD student who, in collaboration with a team of
> other researchers, wants to study the cue value of audiovisual prosody
> for signaling a number of communicative functions: turn-taking,
> information structure, feedback signals, and emotional/attitudinal
> connotations of utterances. To this end, he or she will make use of
> two different research techniques, i.e., (i) by studying audiovisual
> features of human speakers in experimentally elicited speech data, and
> (ii) by testing explicit hypotheses on the communicative role of
> audiovisual prosody by means of synthetic stimuli whose visual and
> auditive properties are systematically varied. The different
> communicative functions to be addressed in this project need to be
> tackled from both an acoustic and a perceptual perspective. In
> addition, while most of the work will concentrate on analyses of
> Dutch, it is important to compare the outcome of the study of this
> language with the results for other languages.
>
> Requirements:
> - strong preference for a linguist, who is experienced with and has
> strong affinity with experimental psycholinguistic research, or a
> psycholinguist who is experienced with and has strong affinity with
> linguistic research
> - knowledge of statistical techniques is essential
> - good programming skills and experience with audiovisual hard- and
> software are recommended
>
>
> Address for Applications:
>
>       Attn: Drs O. Zweekhorst
>       Tilburg University, Faculty of Arts
>       P.O. Box 90153
>       Tilburg, 5000 LE
>       Netherlands
>       Applications are due by 29-Nov-2002
>
>
> Contact Information:
>       Dr Marc Swerts.
>       Email: m.g.j.swerts at tue.nl
>       Tel: +31 40 2475256
>       Website: http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/faculties/flw/pcdm/
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