Master of Arts in Linguistics at the University of Zurich University of Zurich in Switzerland

The Department of Economics at the University of Zurich is inviting applications for a Pre-Doctoral Program – Global Talent Common Application (70% employment, temporary). This is a pre-doctoral research position in economics designed for qualified applicants from low- and middle-income countries and/or applicants with a refugee background. Selected pre-docs work with a professor in the economics department and gain hands-on experience across the research process: brainstorming, literature revie...

The University of Zurich's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences offers PhD study in two linguistic subjects: Linguistics and Computational Linguistics and Phonetics . The unified Linguistics subject covers German, English, Romance, Slavic, and Comparative Linguistics, including Indo-European Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and other linguistic fields and subfields. Students interested in computational linguistics and/or phonetics pursue the combined subject Computational Linguistics and Phonetics...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Cross-Cultural Psycho-/Neurolinguistics at the Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (ISLE), University of Zurich, within the NCCR Evolving Language. The project focuses on cross-cultural research on language processing and its relationship to cognition, with a specific emphasis on syntax and event cognition. The postdoc will work with a team from the NCCR Work Package “Events” under the supervision of Professor Balthasar Bickel. Research meth...

Fully Funded PhD Position in Cognitive Psychology Trier University in Germany is offering a fully funded PhD position in the Cognitive Psychology Lab under the supervision of Prof. Christian Frings. The thesis is titled “Visual Search Meets Action Control: The Role of Statistical Regularities.” The project focuses on cognitive psychology, visual search, action control, and the role of statistical regularities in human behavior and cognition. Applicants should hold a Master's degree in psychology...

Simon Fraser University is inviting applications to its research-focused PhD programme in Linguistics for the Fall 2027 intake in Canada. The programme is designed for scholars pursuing advanced research on how language is structured, acquired, used and varied across communities. Potential research directions include language acquisition and cognition , linguistic diversity and variation, meaning and language use, phonetics and phonology, linguistic theory, and computational approaches to langua...