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ruf.rice.edu>DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS IN LINGUISTICS AT RICE UNIVERSITY The Department of Linguistics at Rice University announces the opening of competition for its doctoral fellowships for 2000-2001. The Ph.D. program at Rice emphasizes the study of language use, the relation of language and mind, and functional approaches to linguistic theory and description. A strong component of the program is field studies in particular language areas. Areas of intensive research activity in the department include cognitive/functional linguistics, language universals and typology, language change and grammaticalization studies, lexical semantics, corpus linguistics, computational modelling, neurolinguistics, and second language acquisition. Interdisciplinary opportunities are available with the Ph.D. programs in Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy, Anthropology, the interdisciplinary group in Cognitive Sciences, and the Center for Cultural Studies. The department hosts a distinguished speakers series, whose recent speakers have included Marianne Mithun, Wallace Chafe, Tom Givon, and Megan Crowhurst. The department also sponsors a biennial Symposium on Language. The upcoming Symposium in April 2000 is "Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation in the Languages of Central and South America." The last two symposia were "The Interface between Comparative Linguistics and Grammaticalization: Languages of the Americas" (1997) and "Usage-Based Models of Language" (1995). Speakers have included Bernd Heine, Alexandra Aikhenvald, Berend Hoff, Ronald Langacker, Joan Bybee, Brian MacWhinney, Janet Pierrehumbert, Douglas Biber, Tom Givon, John Du Bois, Mira Ariel, and Arie Verhagen. FACULTY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Michel Achard, Ph.D. Linguistics, University of California, San Diego. Cognitive linguistics, French syntax, second language acquisition. Michael Barlow, Ph.D. Linguistics, Stanford University. Grammatical theory, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, second language acquisition, discourse. James Copeland, Chair, Ph.D. Linguistics, Cornell University. Functional linguistics, Germanic linguistics, grammaticalization, American Indian linguistics (Tarahumara). Philip W. Davis, Ph.D. Linguistics, Cornell University. Semantics and syntax, language and intelligence, Amerindian (Bella Coola; Alabama), Austronesian (Atayal, Ilokano, Yogad inter alia). Spike Gildea, Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Oregon. Diachronic syntax, field methods and ethics, phonology, typological/functional linguistics, Amazonian linguistics, Cariban languages (Akawayo, Arekuna, Tiriyo). Suzanne Kemmer, Ph.D. Linguistics, Stanford University. Cognitive linguistics, typology and universals, lexical semantics, semantics of grammar, syntactic and semantic change, Germanic, Austronesian, Nilo-Saharan (Luo). Sydney Lamb, Ph.D. Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley. Cognitive linguistics, neurolinguistics, neural network modelling, Amerindian (Monachi). E. Douglas Mitchell, Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin. Comparative Indo-European linguistics, historical linguistics, history of linguistics, early Germanic dialects, Sanskrit. Nancy Niedzielski, Ph.D. Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara. Phonetics, digital speech processing, language and society, American dialectology. Stephen A. Tyler, Ph.D. Anthropology, Stanford University. Cognitive studies, philosophy of language, anthropological linguistics, languages of India (Koya). FINANCIAL AID Graduate fellowships include tuition and a cash stipend. Fellowships are normally renewable for four years upon satisfactory performance, and students can apply for a fifth year of support. The department has so far been fortunate to be able to support all its graduate students. RICE UNIVERSITY Rice University, founded in 1912, is a private university dedicated to the promotion of arts and letters, science, and engineering. The university is highly selective, and departments are small and focused. The campus is spacious, tree-lined, and architecturally distinctive (a blend of Mediterranean and Renaissance). Rice is a close-knit academic community and the Department of Linguistics in particular offers opportunities for personalized interaction and collaboration with faculty. Current enrollment is ca. 2700 under- graduates and 1,200 graduate students; faculty:student ratio is 1:9. Houston is the America's fourth largest city and offers the full array of urban amenities (fine arts, large city parks etc.). It is ethnically extremely diverse (affording not only excellent opportunities for working with linguistic consultants, but also a huge number of restaurants representing a wide spectrum of cuisines at all levels of affordability.) The university is 45 minutes from the Gulf Coast (Galveston Island). Rents are affordable on a graduate stipend. The university and department offer a wide range of computing facilities available to students. The library has an outstanding linguistics collection, including a vast array of reference grammars. Doctoral students are eligible for support for travel to conferences and for summer research funds. The department also supports linguistic consultant fees and photocopying accounts for its doctoral students. Both U.S. and international applicants are admitted on the same basis. Current graduate students include not only U.S. students but also students from Australia, Brazil, China, and Germany. Prospective students of diverse linguistic backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Visiting students with their own funding who would like to come to Rice for a limited time to work with an individual faculty member should contact that faculty member directly. APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 1, 2000. Prospective applicants for the Ph.D. program must take the Graduate Record Examination as soon as possible, and have the results sent to the university in time for consideration in February. Non-native speakers of English must also take the TOEFL test. Admission is competitive. For more information about the program and the application process, please contact: Department of Linguistics Rice University P.O. Box 1892 Houston TX 77251-1892 (713) 527-6010 Departmental Coordinator: Ursula Keierleber, ukeieMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
ist.flinders.edu.au>Funding is available for the support of a postdoctoral fellow for 12 months (possibly extensible; rate determined according to qualifications) or a postgraduate scholarship (at a preferential rate of 18437 p.a.). Potential applicants from outside Australia are advised that they may be liable to pay fees as an international student. While it is envisaged that a scholarship holder will undertake a Ph.D., an offer may require a student to enrol in an M.Sc. initially. Applicants should have a good familiarity with at least one Asian Language, and must have some knowledge of Japanese. Some background in Machine Learning, (especially unsupervised, statistical or self-organizing approaches) is essential, and some linguistics or cognitive science background is desirable. Familiarity with Perl, C and/or Matlab would also be an advantage. More information is available from A/Prof. David Powers and the AI Group web page (see below for contact information), and intending applicants are advised to contact A/Prof. Powers at an early stage to find out more about the project and discuss their qualifications and interests. Applicants should send their CV to A/Prof. David Powers by 6th December 1999, indicating when they would be available to start. Late applications will be considered until an offer is made and accepted. We reserve the right not to make any offer or to make an offer on a basis different from those indicated above. This project is supported primarily by ARC Large Grant A59801806 and in part by grants from Flinders Technologies and a Flinders Science and Engineering Research Award (Industry). - powersMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue