Post-doctoral Research Fellow

University of Leeds - Faculty of Arts

School of Modern Languages and Cultures

Department of Linguistics and Phonetics

Full time, fixed term for 24 months, available to start between 1 April 2010 and 1 July 2010.

The Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, the University of Leeds, UK, is inviting applications for the post of Post-doctoral Research Assistant to work on the 24-month research project 'Prosodic marking revisited: The phonetics of self-initiated self-repair in Dutch', funded by an ESRC First Grant to Dr Leendert Plug.

The project will involve a detailed phonetic analysis of instances of self-initiated self-repair taken from the Spoken Dutch Corpus, and an assessment of the extent to which structural and contextual factors determine their phonetic characteristics. The core responsibilities will be to carry out data selection and classification, to develop and implement relevant acoustic measurement techniques and to process measurement results statistically. You will have recently completed a PhD in phonetics with an emphasis on instrumental analysis and have experience of or demonstrable interest in psycholinguistic research and/or speech production modelling. Data management and quantitative analysis skills are essential, and basic competence in Dutch is desirable.

University Grade 7 (£29,853 - £35,646 p.a.)