Vacancies within the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences.

PhD Studentship

Applications are invited for a 4-year fully funded PhD studentship to work on the project ‘The role of ‘baseline’ voice quality in prosodic marking’. The project is funded by the Trinity Doctoral Research Award (PI-led) to Prof Irena Yanushevskaya. Rather than treating speaker-specific voice quality variations as experimental noise to be averaged out, the project investigates whether and to what extent individual ‘baseline’ voice quality differences condition the realisation of prosodic prominence. Using acoustic analysis of the voice source of speakers with distinct phonatory profiles (e.g., modal, breathy, tense, creaky), the project examines whether prosodic signalling of focus and prominence is realised through similar relative changes or through ‘baseline’-specific cue strategies.

More information about the job specification can be found here: PhD Studentship 2026

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Applications are invited for the post of Teaching Fellow in Linguistics (Phonology) 

The School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences at Trinity College Dublin seeks applications from qualified candidates with a strong teaching record for the post of Teaching Fellow in Linguistics. The post-holder will join an experienced team of applied and theoretical linguists based in the School’s Department of Linguistics.

More information can be found here: TF in Linguistics - Phonology May2026