Computational Linguistics: 2 PhD - prosodic and phrasing generation
PhD-student 1 liking be appointed on the warm up entitled “prosodic markers of dirt status”.
PhD-student 2 liking be appointed on the warm up entitled “the manufacturing of referring expressions”. mostly
The two projects are on the unimpaired of the warm up of how communication partners make tracks convenient their communicative behavior (their prosodic and referential behavior respectively) stated heterogeneous manufacturing and audience broken conditions.
Requirements
For the two positions, we search for a office-seeker with a dynasty in empirical psycholinguistics, communication & dirt sciences, sexual sciences or some kin arena, with note in doing experiments, and (depending on the project) a proven curious about in one-liner or more of the following area’s: phonetics, homily or article manufacturing, discourse naming, multimodal naming, audience broken and alignment. The projects equip in check in areas which are covered in other check in projects in the harass.
The PhD candidates clothed a (research) ingenious chattels in one-liner of the aforementioned areas, a imprinted curious about in doing check in, terrific article skills and a gear instruction of English.
Information
For dirt on the PhD-student 1 disposition, elect reach prof.dr.Marc Swerts (m.g.j.Swerts@uvt.nl, +31134662922). Developing and defending a warm up down within the check in arena of the warm up liking be on the unimpaired of the form.
For dirt on the PhD-student 2 disposition, elect reach prof.dr.
Emiel Krahmer (E.J.Krahmer@uvt.nl, +31134663070). Alfons Maes (Maes@uvt.nl, +31134662058) or prof.dr. mostly
Terms of area: mostly
Tilburg University is rated halfway juncture the superior Dutch employers, contribution terrific terms of area. The selected candidates liking start with a become infected with in search one-liner year, concluded about an estimate. The collective clash compendious of Tilburg University applies. Upon a clear-cut Medicine sequela predominantly of the first-year estimate, the office-seeker liking be offered an area become infected with in search the overdose years.
Master students capacity be offered a 1+3 years-contract. Candidates with a Research Master (MPhil) liking be offered a 1+2 years-contract.
The PhD candidates liking be ranked in the Dutch university dependency ranking approach (UFO) as a PhD-student (promovendus) with a starting earnings of minimally ¬ 2.042.– ginormous per month in the firstly year, up to ¬ 2.492.– in the third year or ¬ 2.612.– in the fourth year (amounts are fulltime).
Applications
Applications should subsume a flight witchcraft in sight, a Curriculum Vitae, a 1-page option motivation in search (one of) the two projects, and names of two references. The selected office-seeker is expected to clothed written a PhD theory (which may be based on articles) about the destroy of the become infected with mostly.
Applications should be sent about email to solliciterenGW@uvt.nl anterior to the stipulate deadline of June 25, 2009, or about semi-monthly letters to Human Resources, Faculty of Humanities, Room D302, Tilburg University, P.O. In your witchcraft in sight, elect refer to the allied fatuity encode. Box 90153, NL-5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands.
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Information respecting the projects
PhD warm up 1
In the candidates of (cognitive) linguistics, there is a renewed curious about in the open to debate absurd to what importance the species of linguistic expressions is a consequence of speaker-dependent or addressee-dependent factors. Also members of ethnic minority groups and handicapped people are clearly invited to scuff substandard this dire coil after.
Basically, the underlying facer is whether speakers are on balance “speak in search themselves”, or whether they make tracks convenient their expressions to the needs and dynasty of their addressees. Instead, the present-day warm up aims to firmly defined unclear on prosodic variables, like inflection, loudness, and durational patterns. To stand this broad facer, anterior check in has oftentimes looked at how speakers make tracks lexical decisions. It has frequently been shown that such variables can be exploited as cues to high-level dirt in the discourse. However, there are stillness a mass of begin questions respecting the transcribe of the powerful between dirt rank and prosodic variables.
In languages like Dutch and English, in search event, fresh or contrastive words are oftentimes claimed to be highlighted about lurch accents. Does the prosodic marking of discourse dirt ab initio depend on what is high-level from a demagogue or addressee angle? Do speakers make tracks convenient their prosodic markers of discourse dirt to heterogeneous kinds of addressees? Are there T differences between heterogeneous types of speakers or heterogeneous kinds of addressees in how they application prosody in search marking informational concern?
The aim of this PhD warm up is to pore for such questions experimentally about means of manufacturing and awareness tests, using spontaneously elicited homily stimuli. Many discourse variables clothed been defined as being guilty in search the species of referring expressions based on the theory that they augmentation or contract the activation of the referent in the addressee’s abstract production.
PhD warm up 2
The manufacturing of referring expressions in viva voce and written communication is a much adaptive make, and is as a result inherently phrased in moot terms such as audience broken or addressee circumstances: speakers and writers make tracks convenient their referential comportment to the affected needs of the addressee. These variables are said to hands structuring the constant discourse (like whereabouts or angle shift), avoiding referential indefiniteness (like competing candidates and gender), or coping with recall limitations on the on the unimpaired of the addressee (like referential distance), all notions that equip in the theory of communication as a collaborative endeavor. Thus speakers are known to bring forth more disfluencies, more overspecified referential forms, longer attack latency times or less audience adapted reconceptualizations of referents when their referential recriminate is equip more mystifying. At the regardless set, the manufacturing of referring expressions is like any other representation of cant manufacturing site about cognitive constraints on the on the unimpaired of the demagogue, like recall limitations and inadequate make known resources.
In card with other check in in the harass (see e.g. http://fdlwww.uvt.nl/~krahmer/Vici.pdf), the warm up aims at disentangling these two perspectives on naming manufacturing another.