PhD Research General Linguistics Frequency

Level:		PhD
Duty:		Research
Linguistic Field(s):		General Linguistics  Frequency
Language Specialty:		Germanic  Romance  Slavic Subgroup  Indo-European  New English
Application Deadline:		22-Jun-2009
Supporting Institution:		University of Freiburg  Research training group GRK DFG 1624/1
LL Issue:		20.2009
Date Posted:		28-May-2009
Support Description:		The University of Freiburg, one of Germany's nine Universities of Excellence,  invites applications for 10 fully-funded Ph.D. scholarships in linguistics,  beginning no earlier than October 1, 2009, and no later than March 1, 2010.  Successful applicants will be members of the Research Training Group on  "Frequency effects in language" (Graduiertenkolleg GRK 1624/1) funded by the  German Research Foundation (DFG).  Frequency is assumed to be a possible determinant in usage-based models of  language change, language acquisition and language processing. In the Ph.D.  projects this determinant will be investigated with a view both to its  explanatory potential and its limitations. The envisaged research integrates  descriptive-linguistic and cognitivist-psycholinguistic approaches and is  empirically based on corpora for standard and non-standard varieties of European  languages.  We offer a high-profile research environment, an interdisciplinary teaching  programme, a full grant of 13,200 € per annum for a period of up to 3  years, and  additional grants covering travel and research expenses.  For more information on the Research Training Group, envisaged Ph.D. projects,  and application details, please visit our website:  http://www.hpsl.uni-freiburg.de/grk-frequenz  Please see job contact information below.
Application Web Address:		http://www.hpsl.uni-freiburg.de/grk-frequenz
Contact Information:		Oliver Ehmer  grk-frequenz@hpsl.uni-freiburg.de