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Call for PhD Students in (Applied) Linguistics (Quantitative / Corpus-Based Research)

E-mail from Martin Schweinberger, U of Queensland, Australia:

Dear colleagues,

My name is Martin Schweinberger (see martinschweinberger.de or my UQ profile for details). I am a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane), and I am currently looking for motivated PhD students with strong skills in R and experience in quantitative analysis. Please feel free to forward this call to colleagues or networks where potential candidates might be reached.

Research focus

I welcome candidates interested in developing quantitative research projects using English (corpus) data. While I am open to a broad range of proposals within my expertise, I am particularly interested in supervising projects on:

  • Sociolinguistics / Language Variation and Change / World Englishes
    • E.g., General extenders, terms of address and salutations, vulgarity
  • Learner Language / Applied Linguistics / Corpus Phonetics / Learner Corpus Research
    • E.g., Vowel production and voice onset times among L1 and L2 English speakers, Discourse particles and markers in learner and L2 English speech, Fluency and pausing in learner and L1 speech, Accent, intelligibility, and comprehension
  • Text Analytics / Digital Humanities / Corpus Linguistics
    • E.g., Speech recognition, text-to-speech, and speech-to-text, Evaluation of association and keyness measures

Candidate requirements

Potential candidates should:

Application process

In Australia, PhD entry is tied to scholarship applications rather than standard job-style applications. Once I have confirmed my supervision of a project, candidates will need to prepare and submit their materials through the UQ system. Detailed information and scholarship opportunities can be found here

Scholarship application deadlines:

  • RQ1 (Start January): 30 September
  • RQ2 (Start April): 31 December
  • RQ3 (Start July): 31 March
  • RQ4 (Start October): 30 June

About UQ

The University of Queensland is consistently ranked among the world’s top 50 universities. It offers a vibrant international research culture, excellent resources, and an active PhD community. Brisbane is a dynamic, welcoming, and affordable city – an outstanding place to live and study.

If you know of any promising students who may be interested, I would be very grateful if you could share this information with them.

Best regards,
Martin Schweinberger
Lecturer in Applied Linguistics
School of Languages and Cultures
The University of Queensland

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PhD position in Stavanger

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/276009/phd-fellowship-in-linguistics

The PhD Fellow will be affiliated with the project North American Norwegian Tonal Accents in Contact (NANTiC) and the FLUENT research group (Fleirspråkleg utvikling og endring i nyare tid). 

The North American Norwegian Tonal Accents in Contact project investigates prosody, i.e., suprasegmental phonology, in heritage language Norwegian in the United States. A heritage language is a language that is naturally acquired at home or in the local community, but is not the dominant language of the larger national society. The project focuses on tonal accents in the North American diaspora of Norwegian speakers, which have been in contact with English for over a hundred years. Accordingly, the project has two primary objectives. The first is to examine the consequences of English-Norwegian language contact on North American Norwegian tonal accents and connected language structures. The second is to expand research on the relationship between morphological processes and prosody, especially for heritage languages and the languages they are in contact with.   

The PhD project must be in the fields of phonology, morphology, or morphophonology, and be connected to one or both project objectives. Applicants must propose a project and submit a project proposal. 

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Vacancy: English Linguistics, Leuven

KU Leuven is hiring a Tenure-Track Professor in Applied Linguistics, with a focus on English.

We offer a full-time position with teaching duties at the university’s Antwerp Campus in the Dutch-taught Bachelor of Applied Language Studies and Master of Multilingual Communication. This position should be of interest to junior colleagues holding a PhD in (Applied) Linguistics with a focus on English, with research expertise in either multilingualism & language acquisition or in multilingual communication, and with strong quantitative methodological skills.

For more information, see: https://academicpositions.com/ad/ku-leuven/2024/tenure-track-professor-of-applied-linguistics-with-a-focus-on-english-faculty-of-arts-ku-leuven/227573