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Postdoctoral Researcher

The University of Edinburgh - College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science / School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Location: Edinburgh
Salary: Not Specified
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract
Placed On: 30th March 2023
Closes: 27th April 2023
Job Ref: 7002
 

Fixed Term Contract: Full Time - 35 Hours per Week            

Fixed Term Contract until 31st of December 2025                                                                                                                                                                 

The Linguistics and English Language department in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher on a full time, fixed term basis until 31st of December 2025. This post is expected to commence in August 2023 (subject to recruitment timescales).

The Opportunity:

We are seeking to recruit a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in semantics as well as computational modelling and/or experimental methods to contribute to the project “Logic in semantic universals”, funded by the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (PI: Wataru Uegaki). The goal of the project is to uncover what core properties of human language semantic universals in logical vocabularies (including connectives, quantifiers, modals and clause-embedding predicates) are rooted in. To this end, the project will pursue an integrated approach that combines insights from formal semantics and evolutionary linguistics, building on a wide-scale cross-linguistic data collection. As a member of the project, the post-holder will contribute to the theory construction and assessment of theories using modelling and/or experimental methods, in collaboration with the project team.


Your skills and attributes for success:

  • A PhD in Linguistics, Cognitive Science or a related discipline (completed, or expected at the time of the appointment).
  • A track record of high-profile research outputs such as journal publications or presentations at international conferences.
  • Demonstrable experience of applying computational modelling and/or behavioural experiments to investigate linguistic phenomena.
  • Up-to-date knowledge of areas of semantic theory relevant to the project aims.
  • Experience of applying computational modelling to research questions in cross-linguistic generalisations.
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