Institution/ Organization: Bangor University
Department: Linguistics and English Language
Web Address: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics/
Level: PhD
Duties: Research
Specialty Areas: General Linguistics
Description:
The 125th Anniversary Research Scholarships at Bangor University
To celebrate its 125th anniversary, Bangor University is launching a five year programme of postgraduate expansion. This starts in 2009-10 when around £5m is invested in up to 125 research studentships and bursaries, with further expansion and more opportunities to apply for in the future.
In light of this, the School of Linguistics and English Language at Bangor University welcomes notes of interest from potential PhD students in areas relevant to our current research, including but not limited to:
Bilingualism (e.g. for phonetics/phonology of code-switching, prosodic influences on perception of foreign accent, corpus-based research, code-switching). Contact: Prof. Ineke Mennen (i.mennen@bangor. ac.uk) and/or Prof. Margaret Deuchar (m.deuchar@bangor. ac.uk).
Phonetics and phonology (e.g. laboratory phonology, phonetic variation, articulatory settings, phonetics in interaction, speech prosody and intonation, in particular Welsh phonology and Welsh intonation). Contact: Prof Ineke Mennen (i.mennen@bangor. ac.uk) and/or Dr Paul Carter (p.carter@bangor. ac.uk).
Language and cognition (e.g relationship between language and cognition, cognitive linguistics, forensic linguistics, experimental psycholinguistics, and linguistic relativity). Contact: Prof. Vyv Evans (v.evans@bangor. ac.uk) and/or Dr June Luchjenbroers (junel@bangor. ac.uk).
Language and Society (e.g. applied linguistics, TEFL, sociolinguistics, varieties of English, language variation, dialectology) . Contact: Prof Eddie Williams (eddie.williams@ bangor.ac. uk) and/or Mr Jakob Leimgruber (jakob.leimgruber@ bangor.ac. uk).
For more information on the 125th Anniversary Scholarships and how to register
your interest please visit http://www.bangor.ac.uk/scholarships/.
Application Deadline: 01-Jun-2009
Web Address for Applications: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/scholarships/
Contact Information:
Prof Ineke Mennen
i.mennen@bangor. ac.uk
Phone:+44 (0)1248 388702
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