#Postdoctoral Researcher in Evolutionary Phonological Typology 80 %

The Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (ISLE) at the University of #Zurich invites applications for a 4-year Postdoctoral Researcher position. The position is associated with the research project “Uncovering the dynamics of sound patterns: phylogenetic approaches to phonological typology” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

This project seeks to fill in the gaps in our understanding of the forces, both language-internal and language-external, that shape the evolution of sound patterns across languages, further integrating the subfield of phonological typology with evolutionary #linguistics, a burgeoning research area that draws upon methods from computational biology and other disciplines in order to investigate a wide variety of questions regarding linguistic change.

Deadline : Open Until Filled

More info here:
https://jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancies/postdoctoral-researcher-in-evolutionary-phonological-typology/3438bfd0-599f-4e8b-b9ba-690113b457d9

#postdoc #JobOffer #JobsInAcademia #AcademiaJobs #phonology #phonetics

Graphème, phonème, lettre, son... / Grapheme, phoneme, letter, sound...

https://video.tedomum.net/w/1RfgijfYKh9bp5B4Rb4cEr

A new video about the history and evolution of the Proto-Slavic vowels *ь and *ъ, known as yers, now extinct. Much information about these vowels remains uncertain, yet they played a significant role in the development of the various Slavic languages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdhG0DGt-uU

#SlavicLanguages ​​#linguistics #diachrony #phonology #Russian #Ukrainian #Polish #Czech #Slovak #Slovene #Croatian #Serbian #Madedonian #Bulgarian

While eavesdropping on Japanese language study material that someone else in the household is playing, I keep hearing word-initial [ts] (or something similar, but definitely an affricate) instead of word-initial [s] (which I have been assured is the correct pronunciation).

Is there a process in Japanese which causes word-initial [s] to resemble [ts] after a glottal stop at a word boundary, before a voiceless vowel, or in some other environment?

#phonology #linguistics #japanese

📄 #New #Publication! Jolin, Armel. 2025. “Tonal features in Shilluk”. Radical: A Journal of Phonology, 8, 165-191.

🌍 From our #SpecialIssue on #Nilotic #languages.

☎️ On tones, subtonal features and tone underspecification

#OpenAccess #Phonology
https://radical.cnrs.fr/jolin-tonal-features-in-shilluk/

📄 #New #Publication! Faust, Noam & Bien Dobui. 2025. “A report on definite and indefinite relativizers in Nuer”. Radical: A Journal of Phonology, 8, 151-164.

🌍 From our #SpecialIssue on #Nilotic #languages.

Ⓜ️ On definite markers on Nuer nouns

#OpenAccess #Phonology
https://radical.cnrs.fr/faustdohui-a-report-on-definite-and-indefinite-relativizers-in-nuer/

🌟 #New spark! Popp, Marie-Luise & Jochen Trommer. 2025. “Phonologically conditioned affix order is stratal”. A spark in Radical: A J of Phonology. 20 pp.

👉 On a previously unnoticed prediction of Stratal OT and how it is in fact borne out.

#OpenAccess #Phonology
https://radical.cnrs.fr/popptrommer-phonologically-conditioned-affix-order-is-stratal/

📄 #New #Publication! Payne, Doris L. 2025. “Final consonants in Maa”. Radical: A Journal of Phonology, 8, 135-150.

🌍 From our #SpecialIssue on #Nilotic #languages.

On #coda, #epenthesis, #deletion, and challenges to native speaker intuition 🤯

#OpenAccess #Phonology
https://radical.cnrs.fr/payne-final-consonants-in-maa/

📄 #New #Publication! Rodríguez-Vázquez, R. & S. de la Ossa. 2025. Accentual text-setting in a syllabic tradition: the case of Muiñeira Nova. Radical: A Journal of Phonology, 9, 1-38.

🎵 In the ongoing #SpecialIssue on #musical text-setting 🎶

#OpenAccess #Phonology

https://radical.cnrs.fr/rodriguez-vazquez-de-la-ossa-accentual-text-setting-in-a-syllabic-tradition-the-case-of-muineira-nova/