2026 University of Konstanz Doctoral Position in Linguistics – Language Acquisition of Catalan

This doctoral position is part of project ‘C03: Acquisition of Expletive Elements’. This project investigates the acquisition of expletive definite articles and expletive negation in pre-school and school-age Catalan, German and Greek monolingual children from a cross-linguistic perspective using corpus and experimental data. Corpus data from the CHILDES database will address the emergence of expletive definite articles and expletive negation. Experimental data will investigate the comprehension and production of expletive definite articles and expletive negation. This PhD position will focus mainly on Catalan and can also contribute to German. 

The newly granted SFB 1760 (https://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/sfb1760/) investigates the role of silence and noise in our capacity for perceiving, learning and producing linguistic signals. The first phase will run from April 2026 to December 2029 and encompasses a wide variety of theoretical, experimental, computational and empirical research within linguistics, in collaboration with projects from computer science, computational social science, media studies and sociology.

Your Responsibilities

• Analysis of corpus data
• Design and implementation of comprehension and production experiments
• Working towards a PhD
• Contributing to the SFB by attending regular meetings and conducting research on SFB topics
• Presenting research at national and international conferences
• Contributing to transfer activities at the Centre for Multilingualism

Table of Content

• Summary
• Benefits
• Requirements
• Application Deadline
• How To Apply

Summary

• Application DeadlineFebruary 1, 2026
• Study LevelPhD
• SponsorUniversity Of Konstanz
• School to studyUniversity Of Konstanz
• Eligible CountryAll Countries

Benefits

• The opportunity to do a PhD within the SFB 1760 ‘Silence, Noise and Signal in Language’
• An open, motivated research team and interdisciplinary research environment
• Collaborating researchers at doctoral, postdoctoral and professorial levels
• Research support by student assistants
• Excellent career and equal opportunity coaching

Requirements

• Excellent MA/MSc degree in Language Acquisition/Multilingualism/Linguistics/
  Speech & Language Therapy, or related discipline
• Research interest in child language acquisition
• Some experience working with pre-school or school-age children
• Native or near native speaker of Catalan, very good proficiency in English, and ideally also German
• Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills
• Knowledge of statistics is desirable
• Experience in child corpora and language acquisition experiments is desirable

Check also:
2026 Fully Funded Humboldt Research Fellowship
2026 Konrad Adenauer Foundation Scholarship

Application Deadline

February 1, 2026

How To Apply

Are you qualified and interested in this opportunity? Kindly go to University Of Konstanz on stellen.uni-konstanz.de to apply

• Questions can be directed to Prof. Dr. Theodoros Marinis via E-mail [email protected]

For more information, kindly visit University of Konstanz webpage.