LINGUIST List 17.1688

Sun Jun 04 2006

Support: Dutch & First Language Acquisition: PhD Student, U of Leiden

Editor for this issue: Amy Renaud <renaudlinguistlist.org>

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Directory         1.    Martine Coene, Dutch & First Language Acquisition: PhD Student, University of Leiden, Netherlands

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Message 1: Dutch & First Language Acquisition: PhD Student, University of Leiden, Netherlands
Date: 01-Jun-2006
From: Martine Coene <m.m.r.coenelet.leidenuniv.nl>
Subject: Dutch & First Language Acquisition: PhD Student, University of Leiden, Netherlands


Institution/Organization: University of Leiden Department: Linguistics Level: PhD Duties: Research Specialty Areas: Psycholinguistics First Language Acquisition Required Language(s): Dutch (nld)

Description:

The Leiden University Centre of Linguistics is looking for 1 PhD student in the field op developmental psycholinguistics.

The research position is part of the NWO VIDI-project on "Morphosyntactic development of children with a cochlear implant" (principal investigator Dr. M. Coene), a study of the language development of very early implanted children, compared to children wearing hearing aids, children with SLI and a normal hearing control group.

Duration of the research position: 3 years. An additional 4th year is not excluded.

The PhD student will be embedded in a joint research project between the Leiden Centre for Linguistics (Netherlands) and the Center for Dutch Studies at the Antwerp University (Belgium) and is co-financed by the Dutch NWO and the FWO-Flanders. These centers work closely together with the Eargroup (Deurne, Belgium, http://www.deoorgroep.net).

Candidates have: - a masters degree in one of the following: linguistics, speech- and language pathology, (cognitive) psychology; - a firm background in linguistics, especially syntax;

Candidates will: - prepare a PhD within the NWO VIDI-project; - work together with other researchers embedded in the Antwerp and Leiden research groups on language development in cochlear implanted children

Preference will be given to candidates who: - have experience with cognitive neuro-imaging techniques (esp. fMRI); - have experience with software packages used in child corpus research (CLAN, AWK, PERL, ?) - are familiar with normal and/or disordered first language acquisition; - are familiar with Flemish (child) language

For more information, please contact Dr.M.Coene at m.m.r.coenelet.leidenuniv.nl