Research assistant; speech, gesture, discourse - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

The Humanities Lab provides different kinds of training such as workshops or group tutorials, but also longer PhD courses, in statistics or in the use of specific facilities.

We now seek a research assistant to work in the Wallenberg Scholar project Embodied Bilingualism (Principal Investigator professor Marianne Gullberg).

Duties

The research assistant will be responsible for annotating and analyzing an existing data set consisting of speech and co-speech gestures in a discourse perspective. This requires a) linguistic skills to deal with information structure, general linguistic form analysis, and a basic prosodic analysis; b) skills and experience with gesture coding to deal with form and functional analyses of gestures; c) skills and experience with sophisticated statistical analyses in R.

The duties place great demands on abilities to work independently and in teams to coordinate the work with the PI.

The duties include:

- Linguistic transcription in terms of linguistic forms and information structural variables in the software ELAN.

- Coding of co-speech gesture in terms of precise stroke onset/offsets, formal articulatory features, functional analysis, and speech-gesture alignment analysis in the software ELAN.

- Inferential statistical analyses (e.g., multi-level modelling) in the software R.

- Reports to the PI and professional level write-up of method and results sections for future publication.

Qualifications

The applicant

- must hold at least a MA in General linguistics

- must have documented experience and skill in linguistic discourse analysis, gesture analysis, and inferential statistics

- must have documented experience and skill in the softwares ELAN (tier organization, input, export), and R (visualization and statistical analysis)

- must have very high written proficiency in English

Since the applicant will work with research and research data it is important that it is a meticulous and conscientious person. Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability.