Fully Funded PhD Positions in Linguistics at Leiden University Leiden University in Netherlands

PhD position at the University of Amsterdam in a multi-methods project on negation across languages , combining linguistics , cognitive science , psycholinguistics , and experimental linguistics . The project studies the evolution and processing of languages with late negation, asking why most languages prefer to express the negator (“not”) early rather than late in the utterance. The successful candidate will work in a small international team and use multiple methods, including artificial lang...

Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL), part of the Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University, is recruiting two fully funded PhD candidates for the NWO project Usku and Banda: Automated Documentation of Endangered Languages of Eastern Indonesia . The positions focus on two small, unwritten, endangered languages in eastern Indonesia: Usku (also called Afra), a Papuan isolate spoken in Papua, and Banda, an Austronesian language spoken on Kei Besar in Maluku. The research combines langua...

PhD position at the University of Amsterdam on the linguistic effects of child language brokering in multilingual families . The project examines how multilingual children translate and mediate for others in everyday life, and how these experiences shape the maintenance of the heritage language and the development of the second language in children and their parents. The position is part of an NWO-funded interdisciplinary project, Small voices, big words: Effects of child language brokering in i...

EngD in Human-AI Interaction for Sign Language Translation at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) The Department of Industrial Design at TU/e is recruiting an EngD candidate for the multidisciplinary SignEngine project, which aims to develop a real-time AI-driven translation engine between Dutch Sign Language (Nederlandse Gebarentaal, NGT) and spoken/written Dutch. The project brings together AI developers, accessibility experts, linguists, and members of the Deaf community to design commu...

Sendy Caffarra, Associate Professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, is recruiting for new Postdoc and PhD positions in her lab in Italy. The positions are part of the new ERC Consolidator Grant READy , which will start on November 1 . The project focuses on how human brain structure and function interact within the reading circuitry , bringing together approaches from cognitive neuroscience , psycholinguistics , and neuroimaging . This is a strong fit for candidates interested in ...