Organisation/Company: BCBL - Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language Research Field: Neurosciences Researcher Profile: First Stage Researcher (R1) Country: Spain Application Deadline: 28 Nov 2024 - 23:59 (UTC) Type of Contract: Temporary Job Status: Full-time Hours Per Week: 35 Offer Starting Date: 1 Jan 2025 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?
Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
No Offer Description Information about the project: Foreign Directed Speech (FDS) is a speech register that native speakers use when addressing non-native (foreign) listeners.
The present project will provide evidence on the didactic impact of FDS (i.e., facilitated speech perception) on foreign listeners, and evidence on the didactic function of FDS (i.e., being produced to help foreign listeners in perception and comprehension).
Our main goal will be to explore to what extent FDS promotes language processing and comprehension.
More specifically, we will address whether prediction, comprehension, listening effort, attention, and information retention are promoted by FDS relative to NDS (i.e., Native Directed Speech).
We will also explore whether FDS is language-, speaker-, and listener-specific, or whether it is universal.
The outcome of this project will be highly relevant for models on multilingual communication and speech accommodation.
It will also have important pragmatic implications given that a large majority of people around the world communicate in a foreign language or with foreign listeners.
Job Description Designing and implementing studies exploring FDS perception and production in adults Analysing acoustic, behavioural and electrophysiological data during speech processing Writing research articles under the supervision of the PI, aiming to publish at top-tier journals Dissemination of results at international scientific conferences and to the general public Requirements Skills/Qualifications Good knowledge of the field of cognitive neuroscience and/or linguistics, experimental psychology Master's (or equivalent) degree in Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Linguistics, and/or other relevant areas Good knowledge of acoustics, phonetics, phonology Strong background in experiment programming and statistical analyses Excellent written and oral communication skills in English Specific Requirements Previous experience in participating in research projects (e.g.)
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