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Sunday, October 12, 2014 by Chris Wellekens

6-5 (2014-05-17) Research Assistant position, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence, France
  
Call for application

A five-month Research Assistant position is open for application at the Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence, France. 
The successful candidate will participate in the SPIC (Speaking in Concert: Cerebral, articulatory and acoustic convergence 
between speakers in conversational interaction) research project, jointly conducted by Luciano Fadiga, Leonardo Badino and 
Alessandro D'Ausilio (Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy) and Noël Nguyen, Simone Falk and
 Thierry Legou (Laboratoire Parole et Langage). The goal of this project is to better understand what makes speakers 
sound more like each other in a conversational interaction, by means of simultaneously recorded cerebral, articulatory and 
acoustic data. The position is funded by the Brain and Language Research Institute at Aix-Marseille University (blri.fr).

At the end of the contract, the possibility will be offered to the candidate to start a PhD with a joint affiliation to the IIT and 
the LPL, in the framework of the same project.

Qualifications: Master's degree in any of the following disciplines: Speech and Language Sciences, Speech and Language
 Technology, Neurosciences, Cognitive Sciences. A strong background in computer science and mathematics is necessary. 
Experience with EEG or articulatory measures in speech production will be appreciated.

Salary: 1760 euros / month.

Starting date: as early as June 2014.

How to apply: Applicants should send a cover letter, a CV and the names and contact information of two references to 
Noel Nguyen (noel.nguyen@lpl-aix.fr).

Links:
. Laboratoire Parole et Langage: http://www.lpl-aix.fr
. Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, Italian Institute of Technology: 
http://www.iit.it/en/research/departments/robotics-brain-and-cognitive-sciences.html
. Brain and Language Research Institute: http://blri.fr

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