PhD Vacancy

The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) invites applications for a PhD Research Assistantship to support research on the Eyak language. The successful candidate will work under the supervision of Professor Emeritus Michael Krauss to compile grammar, texts, and lexicon resulting from Krauss’ fifty years of research with the Eyak language.

The Department of Linguistics of Postdam University, Germany, currently accepting applications for the Erasmus Mundus Program ‘International Doctorate for Experimental Approaches to Language And Brain’ (IDEALAB). The PhD program has been established as an outstanding 3-year doctoral training to its candidates with a primary focus on language acquisition and disorders integrating interdisciplinary approaches.

The University of Hamburg invites applications for a research assistant / PhD position (50% TV-L 13, 19,5 hours/week) in English Linguistics for a period of three years from 1 March 2013. Applicants should have a Master’s degree in English linguistics as well as an interest in multilingualism, linguistic typology, corpus linguistics, linguistic variation and theory [...]

Two Postdoc and three PhD positions are available within the Spoken Interaction with Interpretation in Switzerland (SIWIS) Project. The SIWIS project is about speech to speech translation. It will allow a person to speak to a machine in their native language and have it automatically recognised, translated and spoken in a different language. One characteristic [...]

The Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Oslo invites applications for a 3 year postdoctoral research fellowship (SKO 1352). The position will be part of a new research project “Standardising Minority Languages”, funded by the Research Council of Norway and the University of Oslo.