The Macquarie University is happy to announce the Beyond segments: towards a lexical model for tonal bilinguals scholarship led by Dr. Xin Wang for international students with an excellent academic record.
Description
Lexical tones are a prevalent phonetic cue in human languages, but understanding how bilinguals use this suprasegmental information in each of their two languages is far from clear in the spoken domain. This project focuses on the basic cognitive/linguistic mechanisms that drive bilingual lexical processing in both comprehension and production. In a series of behavioral and eye-tracking studies, we will test whether and how tonal information in one language is co-activated when processing the target language under different conditions and how this process is affected by individual differences such as L2 proficiency.
Interested applicants please send your CV and a short letter of motivation to Xin Wang (x.wang1@mq.edu.au)
To be eligible for a scholarship, applicants are expected to have a record of excellent academic performance and preferably, additional relevant research experience and/or peer-reviewed research activity in line with the University’s scholarship rating guidelines. Refer to the Rating Scholarship Applicants section for more information about these guidelines.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must have:
- MA/MSc degree in Psychology (Cognitive Science), Linguistics (esp. in Phonetics), Neuroscience, or other Science-related fields.
- Strong experimental (e.g., programming) and data analysis skills.
- Substantial experiences with Eye-trackers are desirable.
- Excellent communication skills in English.
- Highly motivated, with the ability to conduct independent research.ng tuition fee offset and a living allowance stipend to exceptional students who are passionate about studying a degree program.
How to apply
- MUST complete the Online HDR Candidature and Scholarship Application via the Online Application System and arrange for two academic referee reports to be submitted to the Higher Degree Research Office.
- MUST indicate the allocation number under the scholarship details question
- MUST submit a Scholarship Only Application form with supporting documents. Please refer to a Guideline on "How to submit a Scholarship only application".
- MUST indicate the allocation number under the scholarship details question
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