PhD Position at the Centre for Language Studies Radboud 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) at Leiden University is offering a fully funded PhD position in Anthropological Linguistics / Descriptive Linguistics as part of the NWO Vidi project Grammars of Space and Time: Language, Culture and Cognition in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley . The project explores how language, culture, and environment shape the conceptualization of space and time in communities in southwestern Ethiopia. The PhD project focuses on Aari , an Omotic language spoken in south...

Fondecyt Postdoctoral Call | Centro Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (CENIA) CENIA is inviting researchers to prepare an application for the Fondecyt Postdoctoral Fellowship program with scientific and institutional support. The proposed research focuses on the alignment between artificial intelligence models and the human brain in how language is processed, meaning is constructed, context is integrated, and communicative intentions are interpreted. The opportunity is being developed in colla...

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...

Radboud University is advertising a funded PhD position in the Centre for Language Studies (CLS) within the Faculty of Arts . The project is ideal for candidates interested in linguistics , cognitive science , communication studies , and related areas of language research. The PhD candidate will contribute to a better understanding of the cognitive and social processes underlying language systems, processing, and use . The thesis must align with one of CLS’s three major research questions: (1) h...