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uni-hamburg.de>University or Organization: University of Hamburg Rank of Job: post-doctoral or post-graduate researcher Specialty Areas Required: Language Acquisition Required Language(s):German, Standard (GER); French (FRN); Portuguese (POR); Spanish (SPN); Basque (BSQ) Description: Job opportunities at the University of Hamburg, Research Center on Multilingualism (immediate vacancy) 1 post-doctoral researcher or 2 post-graduate researchers in a research project on "Simultaneous and Successive Acquisition of Bilingualism" (Principal investigator: J. M. Meisel). This project investigates similarities and differences in grammatical development between bilingual first language acquisition, monolingual first language acquisition, and adult second language acquisition. It is one of 13 projects of the Collaborative Research Center on Multilingualism funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, German Research Foundation) established at the University of Hamburg in 1999. All positions are available immediately and will extend until at least June 30, 2005, the end of the current funding period. They can be further extended for a total of six years, in accordance with § 57a ff. Hochschulrahmengesetz. The salary of the post-doctoral researcher corresponds to that of a lecturer in German universities (BAT II a); the weekly work load amounts to 38,5 hours. The post-graduate researchers must hold an M.A. (or equivalent). He or she will receive approximately half of the BAT II a salary for a work load of 19,25 hours per week and will be expected to complete a doctoral dissertation on a topic related to the theme of the research project. The post-doctoral candidate will be expected to co-direct this research group together with J.M. Meisel. Research results obtained during the work on this project may be included in the dissertation. The University of Hamburg wishes to increase the number of women among their academic staff and therefore encourages women to apply. In accordance with Hamburg law (Gleichstellungsgesetz), female candidates will be given priority in case of equal qualifications with male applicants. The successful candidate is expected to work either with the Portuguese-German or the Basque-Spanish corpus, possibly also with the French-German corpus collected by this research team. Requirements therefore include a good knowledge of Portuguese, or Basque and Spanish; knowledge of German and French would be an asset. Further requirements are a good knowledge of syntactic theory (Principles and Parameters Theory and/or the Minimalist Program) and experience with language acquisition research. Also desirable would be experience with corpus analysis and/or computer skills. Handicapped applicants will be given priority over other candidates, in case of equal qualifications. Send application (including CV, list of publications, names of two referees) by October 4th, 2002 to Prof. J. M. Meisel, University of Hamburg, Sonderforschungsbereich 538: Mehrsprachigkeit, Max Brauer-Allee 60, D-22765 Hamburg; for further inquiries contact J.M. Meisel at jmm