PhD Fellow: Bavarian Dialects & Dialectometry (75%)

Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften - ÖAW; Wien; Vor Ort; EUR 48.000 - 58.000; Teilzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Historical data access

International collaboration

Vienna-based team

Flexible hours

Open culture

Zusammenfassung

The Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (ACDH) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) offers a 75% Praedoc (Diss) position in Bavarian dialectology and dialectometry. The BASyQ project investigates geographic structure of Bavarian dialects in Austria and South Tyrol using dialectometric and geostatistical methods on the WBÖ corpus.

The role includes pursuing a PhD within the project. Tasks include preparing WBÖ corpus data, performing dialectometric analyses, and comparing dialect features

Qualifikationen

• Master’s degree or equivalent in linguistics or related field.

Aufgaben

• Prepare and enrich WBÖ corpus data (lemmatization, PoS tagging).
• Conduct dialectometric and geostatistical analyses (cluster analysis, MDS, factor analysis, interpolation/kriging).
• Compare phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon by geographic region.
• Ensure data quality and critically evaluate methods used.
• Publish results in academic journals and present at workshops.

Kenntnisse

Dialectology knowledge

R statistics

NLP methods

German language (C1)

English language (C1)

Ausbildung

Master’s degree in German Studies / Linguistics / related

Tools

R

GIS

Jobbeschreibung

The Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (ACDH) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) offers a 75% Praedoc (Diss) position in Bavarian dialectology and dialectometry. The BASyQ project investigates geographic structure of Bavarian dialects in Austria and South Tyrol using dialectometric and geostatistical methods on the WBÖ corpus.

The role includes pursuing a PhD within the project. Tasks include preparing WBÖ corpus data, performing dialectometric analyses, and comparing dialect features