Visiting Assistant Professor or Instructor for the 1996-1997 academic year. Candidates should have broad scholarly interests, demonstrable evidence of excellence in teaching and scholarship, and native or near-native competence in Spanish. Courses to be taught may include phonetics, grammar and composition, and Romance Linguistics, as well as elementary and intermediate Spanish.
Handicappers have the right to request and receive reasonable accommodation.
The candidates should fit within this team. A large part of the research carried out at our dept. Both candidates will be working on the first topic. The goal of this project is an SDS for public transport information. It is well-known that pronunciation variation is a serious problem for automatic speech recognition.