LINGUIST List 11.1894

Fri Sep 8 2000

Support: Phonetics/Phonology - PhD/ Australia

Editor for this issue: Lydia Grebenyova <lydialinguistlist.org>

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1. Jonathan Harrington, Phonetics/Phonology - PhD Scholarships/ MACCS, Australia

PhD Scholarships in 2001
Experimental phonetics/speech science/laboratory phonology.

Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (MACCS)
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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The Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science invites applications
from international students for PhD scholarships in Cognitive 
Science to begin in 2001. Scholarships 
cover fees and a tax-free living 
allowance of approximately $A17,000 per annum. 
Some of the scholarships are targeted for students in the following 
research areas:

- experimental phonetics
- laboratory phonology
- speech production modelling and speech physiology
- modelling speech production processes in relation to reading 
aloud
- speech perception and word recognition 
- phonetics and phonological studies of endangered languages 
- speech acoustics and speechn processing 
- prosody and intonation 
- phonetic and phonological studies of communication disorders


Facilities
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Ph.D. students in these areas would have access to the
extensive facilities of the Speech Hearing and Language
Research Centre (SHLRC) as well as to those of MACCS.
In addition to a sound treated recording studio and
many SUN, PC and Macintosh workstations, these SHLRC
facilicities include:

- speech physiology equipment, including an EMA system
 and electropalatographic and airflow/pressure equipment
- speech perception facilities, including equipment for carrying out
 reaction time experiments
- a 4WD mobile speech & hearing recording studio for field 
research 
- SHLRC's speech pathology and audiology clinics


MACCS and SHLRC are supported by three full-time technical
staff. PhD students are provided with their own PC
and some contributions towards national and international
conference expenses. PhD students can choose to participate
in various teaching programs at undergraduate and postgraduate
level including a B.Sc in Speech and Hearing Science,
an M.Sc in Speech & Language Processing, and a Clinical Masters
in Speech Pathology (to begin in 2001).

Academic staff
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MACCS and SHLRC have over 30 members of academic staff;
those that carry out research in the targeted areas
include:

Dr Roz Barker (Lecturer SHLRC) Speech disorders, speech
characteristics of profoundly deafened adults

Professor Mary Beckman (1/2 time Professorial Fellow, MACCS). 
Speech science, experimental phonetics, laboratory phonology, 
prosody and intonation, speech production,
the role of the lexicon in adult phonological knowledge and
in phonological acquisition by children with phonological disorder. 

Dr Steve Cassidy (Lecturer, SHLRC) Speech database 
development, automatic speech recognition, speech acoustics, 
child speech. 

Dr Felicity Cox (Part-time Lecturer, SHLRC) Sociophonetics and
acoustic phonetic studies of Australian English.

Dr Linda Cupples (Lecturer, SHLRC) Sentence comprehension in 
adult readers, 
literacy development in individuals with disability,
phonological awareness and reading awareness in children with 
Down syndrome.

Professor Max Coltheart. (Director, MACCS). Cognitive
processes of reading and spelling and acquired and developmental
disorders of these processes; computational modelling of language
processing.

Associate Professor Jonathan Harrington (Director, SHLRC;
Dep.Director, MACCS). Experimental phonetics and laboratory 
phonology.
Speech production, speech acoustics, prosody and intonation,
Aboriginal languages, accents of English.

Dr Robert Mannell (Lecturer, SHLRC). Speech perception,
psychoacoustics, speech synthesis and text-to-speech 
development

Dr Lyndsey Nickels (ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellow, MACCS). 
Aphasia,
especially disorders of spoken word production; computational
modelling of acquired language disorders; aphasia therapy.

Dr Sallyanne Palethorpe (Research Fellow, MACCS). Clear 
speech, speech
physiology, child speech, the production of prosody, 
acoustic studies of Australian English

Dr Kathy Rastle (ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MACCS). 
Models of speech production especially in relation to reading aloud;
computational modelling of reading aloud.

Dr Catherine Watson (Lecturer, SHLRC and Dept. of Electronics). 
Speech processing, automatic speech generation, 
experimental studies of accent change in English.


Eligibility and method of application
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Please see:

http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/~max/SRC/1.html

for further details. The closing dates for the
applications are 30th September 2000. If you intend
to apply for an international scholarship, please contact
Jonathan Harrington <jmhshlrc.mq.edu.au> as soon
as possible giving a very brief outline of the proposed research
area.

Futher details of MACCS and SHLRC are given at:

http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au

and

http://www.shlrc.mq.edu.au