LINGUIST List 21.4907 Sun Dec 05 2010 Support: Dutch, Spanish & General Ling: PhD Student, Radboud U., Nijmegen Editor for this issue: Matthew Lahrman <mattlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Mirjam Ernestus , Dutch, Spanish & Commmunication Studies, English Linguistics, General Linguistics: PhD Student, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands Message 1: Dutch, Spanish & Commmunication Studies, English Linguistics, General Linguistics: PhD Student, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands Date: 03-Dec-2010 From: Mirjam Ernestus <m.ernestuslet.ru.nl> Subject: Dutch, Spanish & Commmunication Studies, English Linguistics, General Linguistics: PhD Student, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands E-mail this message to a friend Institution/Organization: Radboud University Nijmegen Department: Faculty of Arts Web Address: http://www.ru.nl/cls/ Level: PhD Duties: Research Specialty Areas: General Linguistics Communication between Non-native Speakers, English Linguistics Description: The PhD-student will investigate how native speakers of Spanish communicate with native speakers of Dutch in English, under different conditions (asking for formal or informal speech). The student will focus on how the Spanish adapt their pronunciation, how they prevent or solve miscommunication, how intelligible they are and on how they are judged by native speakers of Dutch. For this, the PhD-student will collect a corpus of English produced by Spanish students communicating with a native speaker of Dutch of their own social status, and talking to a group of native speakers of Dutch and Spanish of the same and higher social status. The PhD-student will provide an orthographic transcription of this corpus and then analyze this corpus in pragmatic respect (how is miscommunication prevented and solved?), in acoustic respect (what are the qualitative and quantitative aspects of English spoken by Spanish language users) and in receptive respect (what are the consequences of deviant patterns on comprehension and on speaker evaluation?). These corpus studies will be supplemented with experimental studies. The PhD-student will write at least four papers on the basis of this research for high impact international journals, and also present the research at international conferences. The dissertation will consist of the articles, preceded by a General Introduction, and followed by a General Discussion/Conclusions. We are looking for candidates with a background in English linguistics, General linguistics, or Communication studies, who are (near)-native in English. Knowledge of Spanish and of phonetics will be considered as an advantage. The successful candidate will receive a contract for 3.5 years with the Radboud University, and be considered as regular employees. The PhD-student will be supervised by Prof. Dr. Margot van Mulken and Dr. Mirjam Ernestus and be part of a large research group. Applications Deadline: 01-Feb-2011 Mailing Address for Applications:         Attn: Dr. Mirjam Ernestus         Radboud University Nijmegen         P.O. Box 310         Nijmegen NL-6500 AH         Netherlands Contact Information:         Dr. Mirjam Ernestus         m.ernestuslet.ru.nl         Phone:+31-24-3612970 New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 05-Dec-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.