Last application date Apr 30, 2024 00:00
Department PP02 - Department of Experimental Psychology
Contract Limited duration
Degree You have a Master’s degree (or equivalent) in a relevant domain, such as experimental psychology, psycholinguistics, clinical linguistics, or cognitive neuroscience.
Occupancy rate 100%
Vacancy type Research staff
Towards a model of disfluency production
An important challenge for psycholinguistics is to explain the cognitive processes that underlie speakers’ ability to quickly and accurately plan sentences, select words, and to say them out loud. Several influential theories of language production have been proposed that capture important aspects of this skill. But strikingly, they ignore an extremely salient aspect of everyday speech: the fact that it is full of disfluencies. This project will test key mechanisms that we hypothesize to play a role in the production of disfluencies, such as self-monitoring of speech and the coordination between speech planning and execution. The mechanisms discovered in the empirical work will inform a computational model, and we will try to simulate both our own findings and data reported in the literature.
Tasks:
You are expected to design and implement speech production experiments, implement a computational model, and carry out simulations with that model. The student is expected to publish the findings in international peer-reviewed journals and international conferences, and write a dissertation consisting of a collection of articles.
You are highly motivated and intrinsically interested in psycholinguistics. You have a Master’s degree (or equivalent) in a relevant domain, such as experimental psychology, psycholinguistics, clinical linguistics, or cognitive neuroscience. Previous experience with data analysis, knowledge of programming languages such as R and Python, and experience with computational modeling is a significant plus. Proficiency in English is essential; proficiency in Dutch is a plus.
WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU
Further information:
Please contact Robert.hartsuiker@ugent.be or Aurelie.Pistono@ugent.be for further information.
Please send a motivation letter, a detailed CV, a list of courses and grades, and names and email addresses of two academics, who may be contacted for references by email to Robert.Hartsuiker@UGent.be. Deadline is April 30, 2024. Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed in the course of May, 2024.
Ghent University is one of the top 100 universities in the Dutch language area, with more than 44,000 students and 15,000 staff members.
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