LINGUIST List 22.4374

Fri Nov 04 2011

Jobs: Anaphor Resolution: PhD Student, Laboratory EFL

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        1.     Barbara Hemforth , Anaphor Resolution: PhD Student, Laboratory Empirical Foundations of Linguistics, Paris, France
Message 1: Anaphor Resolution: PhD Student, Laboratory Empirical Foundations of Linguistics, Paris, France
Date: 02-Nov-2011
From: Barbara Hemforth <barbara.hemforthparisdescartes.fr>
Subject: Anaphor Resolution: PhD Student, Laboratory Empirical Foundations of Linguistics, Paris, France
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University or Organization: Laboratory Empirical Foundations of Linguistics Job Location: Paris, France Web Address: http://www.labex-efl.org/
Job Rank: PhD student

Specialty Areas: Psycholinguistics; Anaphor Resolution


Description:

Contact: Barbara Hemforth, LLFContact email: barbara.hemforthlinguist.jussieu.frApplication reference: EFL-ANA1-ANA2

Applicants are invited to work in a 10-year project 'Empirical foundations oflinguistics'. The candidate will work in Strand 2 : Experimental Grammar in across linguistic perspective. This is a full-time position.

The successful applicant will have to document qualifications inlinguistics/psycholinguistics at the Master's level. Applicants will beassessed by an expert committee. The main emphasis of the assessmentwill be on the applicant's potential for research, as evident from: Master'sthesis or equivalent, other scholarly works and project description.

Please join with your application: CV; two names of referent (with emailaddress); web address with publications.

The thesis will involve the investigation of crosslinguistic differences inanaphor resolution processes. The relevance of discourse structure, wordorder as well as prosody in particular with respect to information structure willbe a central concern of the research. A central issue in those studies will bethe close comparison of crosslinguistic differences with highly parallelmaterials across a variety of languages (e.g., German, French, English,Portuguese, Spanish). Most experiments will be using eyetracking techniquessuch as the visua.

Application Deadline: 10-Nov-2011 Email Address for Applications: marandinlinguist.jussieu.fr Contact Information:
Barbara Hemforth Email: barbara.hemforthparisdescartes.fr

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