The successful candidate will join the Speech & Bilingualism research group at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language and carry out a PhD within the FLLAPP project. Within this project, the successful candidate will develop research questions and experimental designs within one or both FLLAPP work packages; design and implement studies with adult and/or child foreign-language learners; collect and analyse behavioural, acoustic-phonetic, listener-rating, and/or EEG/ERP data, depending on the thesis focus; use transparent and reproducible workflows for data management, analysis, and open-science outputs; prepare research articles with the PI and present findings at international conferences and public-engagement events; contribute to the collaborative research life of the Speech and Bilingualism group and the BCBL. The application deadline is the 8th of November 2026.