Project descriptionThe Leiden University Center for Linguistics invites applicants for one postdoctoral position in experimental/computational psycholinguistics, where you are strongly encouraged to combine knowledge and skills from speech science, data science, and cognitive behavioral science into an interdisciplinary approach to the scientific study of language and speech melody.
The position is funded by Prof. dr. Yiya Chen's vici grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (VI.C.181.040;
Project Summary). You will be a member of the Leiden University Center for Linguistics (
LUCL) and affiliated with the Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (
LIBC).
In the context of the vici project, you will work in an interdisciplinary team, which gives you the possibility to expand your horizon to other fields. You will collaborate with PhD students, Postdocs, and the PI. Your primary responsibility is to conduct psycholinguistic investigations related to the project's topic. Together with your collaborators, you will design and carry out a series of experiments to develop and test theories about 1) how speakers of typologically different tone languages differ in the way they vary pitch to signal both word-level tone and sentence-level intonation; and 2) how these differences affect the way listeners use pitch variation to recognize words and interpret sentences? You can choose to focus on production, comprehension, or the computational modelling of speech production/comp