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foNETiks Addendum (December 2018)
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Postdoctoral Research Position
The University of Edinburgh (UK)

The School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the
University of Edinburgh is seeking to appoint a full-time postdoctoral
research assistant for a fixed-term period of 36 months. The position is to
support the EVOTONE project “The emergence and evolution of linguistic
tone” funded by the European Research Council. This project aims to explore
our understanding of how physiological, perceptual, and structural
pressures interact to condition the emergence of tone languages, and how
tone systems subsequently evolve.

The post holder will be chiefly responsible for conducting the speech
perception studies associated with the project, including participant
recruitment, designing and running experiments and editing experiment code,
post-processing, analysis, write-up, and presentation.

Applications are invited from those with a PhD in psychology, cognitive
science, linguistics, or a related discipline, who have a strong track
record of research and publication in relevant areas (PhD pending and
assumed complete at time of appointment can be considered). Applicants with
expertise in speech production and perception, phonetic fieldwork, and/or
computational proficiency are especially encouraged to apply. Specific
experience with perceptual learning and phonetic imitation paradigms,
statistical modelling, and functional data analysis is highly desirable.

This is a full time (35 hours), fixed term post (36 months) beginning in
August 2019. Salary, commensurate with experience, is £33,199 - £39,609 per
annum (pro-rata). Funds for laboratory support (e.g., lab technicians and
research assistants) and conference/fieldwork travel are also available.

Closing Date: Tuesday 8th January 2019, 5pm GMT.

It is anticipated that interviews will be held March 2019.

Please find more information and details of how to apply here:

https://edin.ac/2FdDGki

For inquiries please contact: j.kirby AT ed.ac.uk

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