PhD scholarship available in corpus linguistics
Robert.Sigley@vuw.ac.nz
Thu, 08 Aug 1996 15:47:34 NZST
Posted on behalf of Laurie Bauer:
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The following advertisement has appeared in the press:
Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand
Te Whare Waananga o te Upoko o te Ika a Maui
*SCHOLARSHIPS*
At Victoria we take our research very seriously.
Our scholarships are targetted towards current research strengths and are
also provided as a base for those undertaking general postgraduate study.
You can apply for a scholarship if you're intending to work towards a PhD
in our strongest research areas. These are:
...
New Zealand Language Corpora
A PhD scholarship will give you $11,000 [NZ$1 = £0.44, US$0.66, AU$0.86]
per annum for 2 and a half years (with provision for an extension of up to
six months). There will be some reimbursement of tuition fees.
Graduates from any university within or outside NZ are welcome to apply.
Applications close on 1 October 1996.
For further information, please phone 64-4-495 5113, or E-mail
graduate-students@vuw.ac.nz
The local corpora available for analysis include the Wellington Corpus of
Written New Zealand English (parallel to LOB), the New Zealand ICE Corpus,
the Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English (1 million words) and
other smaller collections of data, covering a number of styles, and
speakers of different ethnicities, genders, ages, etc. These allow
lexical, grammatical and phonetic analysis to be done. For academic
queries please contact Laurie.Bauer@vuw.ac.nz or Paul.Warren@vuw.ac.nz.
Laurie.BAUER@vuw.ac.nz
Department of Linguistics, Victoria University, PO Box 600, Wellington, New
Zealand
Ph: +64 4 472 1000 x 8800 Fax: +64 4 495 5057