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Determinants of Dialectal Variation
Deadline for receipt of applications: 1
May 2003
The Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO) has agreed to fund a
project involving two graduate student positions. The positions
should ideally begin in Sept. 2003 and last four years each. The goal
of the project is to research the determinants of dialectal variation
using a quantitative methodology. One position involves work on
German pronunciation at The
University of Groningen, Netherlands, and the second foresees
employment at the Meertens
Institute in Amsterdam.
1. German Pronunciation
This position at the University of Groningen, involves applying
existing software for the measurement of pronunciation difference to
German dialectal data, the Phonetischer
Atlas von Deutschland, and second that you explore the
geographical and social determinants of the distribution of linguistic
variation. It will require that you become familiar with German
Phonology and Dialectology and that become proficient in the
application of existing software to dialectological modeling. We
expect to employ simple statistical models for the latter, but also
models derived from Geographical Information Systems. Prof. Hermann
Niebaum and Prof. John N
erbonne are the heads of this subproject.
2. Dutch Syntax
This position at the Meertens Institute, involves applying existing
software and perhaps developing software further, for for the
measurement of syntactic differences in Dutch dialectal data, the Syntactische
Atlas van Nederlandse Dialecten, and second that you explore
the mutual association of different syntactic variables. It will
require that you be familiar with Dutch Syntax (as researched from a
generative paradigm) and Dialectology and that become proficient in
the application of existing software to dialectological modeling. We
expect to employ simple statistical models for the latter, but also
explorative techniques from Machine Learning. Prof. Hans Bennis and
Dr. Sjef Barbiers are the heads of this subproject.
Your profile:
- university degree in a field that prepares for computational
linguistics research
- excellent record of undergraduate study
- ability to work independently
- relevant research experience
- willingness to learn Dutch
The graduate research projects at the University of Groningen or the
Meertens Institue include a gross salary beginning at
EUR 1.501 .- per month (before taxes) in the first year
and rising to EUR 2,143.- in the fourth (last)
year. You will have a contract for one year extendible for three
further years subject to evaluation after one. The research project
has to lead to a Ph.D. dissertation.
Further information
Information on related dialectometry work is available at Wilbert
Heeringa's site, and information on the software currently
available may be found at Peter Kleiweg's
site. Descriptions of the two graduate stud
ent projects are
contained within the
NWO project proposal.
There is also online information available about both the CLCG and the Meertens Institute, the venues
of the collaborative project.
Finally, there is information about graduate study and the general
expectations on graduate students. See "What is
expected from a graduate student" for a description of graduate
study at the CLCG. Candidates are not required, but are
invited to sketch how they would approach the tasks outlined in
the
project proposal. See "What is expected in a project sketch?"
for guidelines for project sketches.
John Nerbonne, principal
investigator, Hermann Niebaum,
leader of the German pronunciation project, and Sjef Barbiers,
leader of the syntax project, will be pleased to answer inquiries.
Information on general expectations concerning graduate students can
be obtained from the CLCG weg site at http://www.let.rug.nl/clcg/.
See especially the section "Graduate Study".
Procedure
Please send with your application letter your curriculum vitae, a copy
of your diploma together with a list of grades, a list of publications
(if any), the names and addresses of two people who would be
willing to write letters of reference, and optionally a sketch of
how you would
approach the projects in question. You may write in
English, Dutch or German.
Send your application by May 1, 2003 to
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Afdeling Personele Zaken
Postbus 72
9700 AB Groningen
OR Email vmp@bureau.rug.nl
Identify "Vacaturenummer AT203093" on the envelope and in your letter.
