PhD Thesis offer (M/F) - Cognitive aspects of language contact in the Balkan language area
New
- FTC PhD student / Offer for thesis
- 36 months
- Doctorate
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Offer at a glance
The Unit
Bases Corpus Langage
Contract Type
FTC PhD student / Offer for thesis
Working hHours
Full Time
Workplace
06357 NICE
Contract Duration
36 months
Date of Hire
01/11/2026
Remuneration
2300 € gross monthly
Apply Application Deadline : 20 October 2026 23:59
Job Description
Thesis Subject
Cognitive aspects of language contact in the Balkan language area
Your Work Environment
Funded by the French National Agency (ANR), MindContact project aims to explore cognitive aspects of contact-induced language change in the Balkan peninsula. Blending psycholinguistic perspectives with contact linguistics, this project takes contact phenomena in the Balkan language area under scrutiny. The Balkans are a melting pot of grammars, where different morphosyntactic features of different languages blend due to extensive language contact. In this project, we focus on 'minoritized' language varieties including non-standard minoritized languages under contact (e.g., Romani, Pomak, Judeo-Espagnol/Ladino) and regional variants under contact (e.g., Asia Minor Greek, Rumelian Turkish). A particular concentration of the PhD candidate's research would be conducted on the following grammatical phenomena: tense/aspect, evidentiality, indefinite articles, phrase structure and word orders across one or two of the above mentioned minoritized languages spoken under dominant societal languages including South Slavic languages, Modern Standard Greek and/or Turkish. MindContact explores cognitive mechanisms of language change by investigating, cross-linguistic structural priming, codeswitching, and chunking. The PhD candidate will be responsible, under the supervision of the scientific supervisor, for building psycholinguistic experiments using behavioral, eye-movement monitoring and electrophysiological experiments and running these experiments under experimental fieldwork expeditions, analysing these data and drafting/submitting articles for publication.
Compensation and benefits
Compensation
2300 € gross monthly
Annual leave and RTT
44 jours
Remote Working practice and compensation
Pratique et indemnisation du TT
Transport
Prise en charge à 75% du coût et forfait mobilité durable jusqu’à 300€
About the offer
| Offer reference | UMR7320-SECARS-001 |
|---|---|
| CN Section(s) / Research Area | Language sciences |
About the CNRS
The CNRS is a major player in fundamental research on a global scale. The CNRS is the only French organization active in all scientific fields. Its unique position as a multi-specialist allows it to bring together different disciplines to address the most important challenges of the contemporary world, in connection with the actors of change.
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