Half-time PhD position: "Language Acquisition"
- Ort: Göttingen
- Arbeitszeit: 1/2 Stelle
- Bezahlung/Besoldungsklasse: E13 TV-L
- Disziplinen: Sprachwissenschaft
- Sprachen: Sprachenübergreifend
- Frist: 31.12.09
The newly established Free Floater Research Group "Language Acquisition" at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen invites applications for a half-time PhD position
The position is initially available for two years starting immediately and can be extended following favourable reviews. The salary is in accordance with the German state regulated public service salary scale (50% E13 TV-L).
The "Language Acquisition" group, led by Dr Nivedita Mani, focuses on investigating the processes underlying the development of lexico-phonological representations and word recognition in infancy and adulthood. The group will have access to stateof-the-art facilities for infant Intermodal Preferential Looking, EEG, adult eye-trackers, and a variety of other behavioural paradigms. The post is not restricted to a particular project and the candidate will have flexibility in defining the parameters of his/her research, within the constraints of the group's research foci. For further information about the group, please visit our website at www.uni-goetlingen.de/en/127874.html.
Candidates for the PhD position should hold an excellent first degree in Cognitive Science, Linguistics or a related field in Experimental Psycholinguistics . Also important is a strong background in experimental methods and statistical analysis, and the ability to become acquainted with new methods quickly. Previous work with infants or children, experience with EEG and familiarity with programming tools like MATLAB is desirable but not required. The working language of the group is English and the language for testing purposes will be German, so while fluency in German is not required, an interest in learning German is essential.
Responsibilities for the position involve participation in all aspects of the research group, including designing and running experiments, data analysis, subject recruitment, write-up and presentation of data at national and international conferences.
The "Language Acquisition" group is a Free Floater Research Group recently established at the Georg-August-University Göttingen in the scope of the German Excellence Initiative. The University ranks among the top research institutions in the country, offering great career opportunities for young researchers.
The University of Göttingen seeks to increase the participation of women in areas in which they are currently underrepresented and therefore explicitly encourages women to apply. Disabled persons with equivalent aptitude will be favoured.
Applications must be submitted via the online form located at www.uni- goettingen.de/positions-exini by December 31st, 2009. For informal enquiries about the post please contact Nivedita Mani (n.mani@ucl.ac.uk).
Publiziert von: Hartmut Duppel