"The #Grenoble Babylab (Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition, Université Grenoble Alpes, France), in close collaboration with the Speech and Cognition Department of the GIPSA-lab (Université Grenoble Alpes, France), is recruiting a highly motivated PhD candidate for 3-year doctoral project at the intersection of developmental psychology and language acquisition. Notably, this PhD project will investigate how young children (18–36 months) learn new words in naturalistic, interactive settings.

Approx. starting date: October 2026

How to apply:
Applications must be sent to the three e-mail addresses mentioned above* and include:

• A motivation [cover] letter
• A CV
• Contact details of two referees
• Academic transcripts (undergraduate and graduate)

Application deadline: We will review applications on a rolling basis until mid-June, but candidates are encouraged to apply before the dead line."

*contact me via DM to get the addresses and more detailed info about the PhD subject.

#Psychology #cognition #LanguageScience #psycholinguistics #AcademiaJobs #PhD

For those who wonder what the connection between butterfly eggs and childhood #speech disorders may be, the authors are arguing against the classifications currently used by most clinicians*. They claim some diagnostic categories do not reflect actual differences between disorders believed to be distinct in nature (i.e., they would emerge due to different underlying mechanisms), but rather different phases of the same developmental trajectory.

*at least in the US and English-speaking world

#linguistics #LanguageScience #LanguageDevelopment #SpeechDisorders #SpeechLanguageTherapy #SpeechLanguagePathology #CognitiveScience #phonetics