| More Information: | Dear colleagues,
this is a re-announcement of a 3-year PhD position with a heavy focus on
LFG and on the question how frequency effects can be modelled in formal
grammars (details below).
Please forward this to any of your MA students who might be interested.
Application deadline is the 31st of January.
Best wishes,
Tina Bögel
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One PhD position (TVL-13, 65%, 3 years) for work at the interface
between prosodic structure and formal/computational LFG grammars at the
University of Konstanz, Germany
Application Deadline: 31.1.2022
Start of the project: April 2022 (negotiable)
We are looking for a PhD student to work with us on the joint
DFG/AHRC-project "Prosodic structure at the interface between language
and speech" awarded to Tina Bögel (University of Konstanz) and Alice
Turk (University of Edinburgh).
Both language redundancy and prosodic structure affect characteristics
of speech related to acoustic salience and intelligibility. The idea
that prosodic structure is the interface between grammar and speech led
to proposals that speakers plan the prosodic structure of an utterance
in order to make less predictable parts of speech more intelligible via
its effects on acoustic saliency. The goals of this project are 1) to
test the hypothesis that prosodic structure is the interface between
language and speech, and 2) to implement this interface in a
(computational) LFG-grammar in order to test and evaluate our
architectural assumptions.
The PhD student's project will relate to the integration of language
redundancy effects into the LFG modules (e.g., to determine an
appropriate representation of bigram frequencies and their effects in
the lexicon, syntactic structure, and prosodic structure, and to
implement them accordingly into a computational LFG grammar). The PhD
student will also assist in the design and execution of several speech
production experiments in close collaboration with all members of the
project.
Your profile:
- A very good MA-degree in a relevant field
- good English language skills
- basic knowledge in phonetics and statistics
- general knowledge of syntax
It is a plus if you have any of these skills:
- knowledge of Lexical Functional Grammar (or even its computational
implementation)
- experience with speech production/perception experiments
- rule-based computational or programming skills
We do not expect you to be the perfect match, but we expect you to
acquire the necessary skills within a year (with support from us and
classes offered at the Department of Linguistics at the University of
Konstanz) and to be open towards different subfields within linguistics.
We offer:
- a pleasant and supportive working environment
- support for contributions to conferences and general publications
- an integration into a very research-oriented department with
colleagues from various subfields of linguistics
- the possibility of obtaining a PhD
Please send your application as one pdf to Tina.Boegel@uni-konstanz.de
including
- your CV
- your BA/MA certificates
- a motivational letter
- and two referees who we could contact
The University of Konstanz is committed to ensuring an environment that
provides equal opportunities and promotes diversity as well as a good
balance between university and family life. As an equal opportunity
employer, we strive to increase the number of women working in the field
advertised
(https://www.uni-konstanz.de/en/equalopportunities/equal-opportunity/).
Persons with disabilities are explicitly encouraged to apply. They will
be given preference if appropriately qualified (contact + 49 7531 88–4016).
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