PhD Position 2 (PhD2): Multisensory Prosody in Spoken Portuguese (TRAD-PREDOCTORAL-2026-03)
Core
Investigate the multisensory implementation of prosody in spoken European Portuguese through controlled production experiments and multimodal corpora.
Role type
PhD researcher (Linguistics/Phonetics)
Builds
Multimodal datasets and quantitative models of prosodic coordination
Domain
Linguistics / Experimental Phonetics / Multimodal Communication
Deliverable
research
Required skills
experimental research design, quantitative data analysis, scientific writing, academic publishing, conference presentation
Preferred skills
motion capture, audiovisual annotation, ELAN, Praat, R, Python
Responsibilities
Design and conduct experimental studies on multisensory prosody production; Collect multimodal datasets using synchronized audio-video and optical motion capture; Annotate and analyze acoustic, facial, head, and manual movement data; Contribute to quantitative models of multimodal prosodic coordination; Publish research articles in international journals; Present results at international conferences.
