Overview
About the programme
Cyclic structure building and optimization are two central research areas of grammatical theory, but also closely related to core concepts in psychology and computation: cyclicity implements the intuition that problem solving is not global, but applies in small incremental steps. Optimization approaches allow for bridging the gap between computational models of neural neural networks in Cognitive Science and symbolic models of human language.
This Cyclic Optimization research unit at Leipzig University explores the hypothesis that combining cyclicity and optimization achieves an added level of explanation not available to either alone: cyclicity can substantially restrict the search space of optimization processes and explain why optimization is often surface-opaque, while optimization yields a principled account for the timing, size, and variability of cycles.
Programme Structure
Subprojects include:- Prospects of inflectional morphology in Harmonic Serialism
- Morphological strata of tone
- Semantic and phonological correlates of affix orders
- Layers of morphosyntactic number in Eastern Sudanic
- Syntactic repairs and cyclic optimization
- Prosodically determined dislocation of coordinators
- Optimal matches between clause-embedding predicates and their cl. complements
- Computational aspects of cyclic optimization
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 36 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- StartingApplication deadline not specified.
Language
Delivered
Campus Location
- Leipzig, Germany
Disciplines
Linguistics View 7 other PhDs in Linguistics in GermanyWhat students do after studying
Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
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Other requirements
General requirements
Required:
- dated and signed application form
- written confirmation from your supervisor (supervision agreement)
- CV
- secondary school leaving certificate (certified copy)
- evidence of university entrance examination (certified copy), if applicable
- evidence of all university degrees (certified copies), e.g. bachelor’s, master’s, Diplom)
- Transcripts of Records from all secondary and university qualifications (certified copies)
- evidence of your knowledge of German at DSH-2 level, if the doctorate will be in German (certified copy)
- evidence of your knowledge of English, if the doctorate will be in English
- confirmation of admission to a faculty’s list of doctoral candidates, if already available (confirmation can otherwise be submitted within one semester)
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