PhD Position 1 (PhD1): Multisensory Prosody in Spoken Catalan (TRAD-PREDOCTORAL-2026-02)
Core
Investigate the multisensory implementation of prosody in spoken Catalan through controlled production experiments and multimodal corpora, combining acoustic, kinematic, and linguistic analyses with 3D motion capture.
Role type
Research PhD candidate (experimental phonetics/multimodal communication)
Builds
Multimodal datasets and quantitative models of prosodic coordination
Domain
Linguistics / Experimental Phonetics / Cognitive Science
Deliverable
research
Required skills
experimental research design, quantitative data analysis, scientific writing, acoustic analysis, kinematic analysis, motion capture data processing, statistical modeling
Preferred skills
motion capture technology, audiovisual annotation (ELAN), Praat, R, Python, native or near-native Catalan proficiency
Technologies
ELAN, Praat, R, Python, optical motion capture systems
Responsibilities
Design and conduct experimental studies on multisensory prosody production, collect synchronized audio-video and motion capture data, annotate and analyze acoustic and movement data, develop quantitative models of multimodal prosodic coordination, publish research articles, present at international conferences
Seniority
PhD Candidate (early career researcher)
