LINGUIST List 29.844
Wed Feb 21 2018
FYI: Call for Expression of Interest: Marie Curie Individual Fellowship for post-docs
Editor for this issue: Kenneth Steimel <kenlinguistlist.org>
Date: 21-Feb-2018
From: Jeannette Schaeffer <j.c.schaeffer
uva.nl>
Subject: Call for Expression of Interest: Marie Curie Individual
Fellowship for post-docs
E-mail this
message to a friend The LACA (Language Abilities in Children with
Autism) network invites young researchers to express their interest in writing a
Marie Curie Individual (post-doc) Fellowship together with one of the LACA labs –
see attached advertisement. The deadline for the expression of interest is 1 March
2018. The actual deadline for submission of the actual proposal is mid-September
2018. For more details, please see ad below.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Post-doc Positions in Europe
“Expression of Interest” for hosting Fellows
The international, cross-linguistic collaboration “Language Abilities in
Children with Autism” (LACA) invites postdoc fellows to apply together for postdoc
funding in the context of the Marie Sklodowska Curie Individual fellowship scheme
for Standard EF (European Fellows).
European Fellowships are open to researchers
currently within or outside Europe who want to work in an EU Member State or
Associated Country (MS or AC). The mobility rule applies to the MS or AC (i.e. the
researcher must not have lived, worked, or studied in the MS or AC for more than 12
months during the 3 years prior to the deadline). The duration of the fellowship is
12 to 24 months and primarily covers the salary of the researcher (plus family
allowance). Applicants either hold a PhD degree or have at least four years of
full-time equivalent research experience at the moment of the deadline.
The
LACA network will offer support during the application procedure to candidates who
would like to spend their Marie S. Curie fellowship at one of the LACA labs. For a
description of participating organisations, see below. Secondments of up to 6 months
to a second LACA lab are possible. In case of funding, the postdoc fellow will
become a member of the LACA collaboration, receiving training and potential
opportunities for further continuation of their international scientific career.
Interested candidates should send their CV, including a list of publications,
and a short motivation letter no later than 1 April, 2018 to the supervisor and (if
applicable) the EU liaison officer at the intended host (see details below).
Valid for the past MSCA-IF Call :
https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/msca-if-2017.html
Type of action: Standard EF
Reintegration panel and Career Restart panel are
also possible, please note that other eligibility criteria apply.
Please
refer to the 2017 guide for applicants for further information:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/other/guides_for_applicants/h2020-guide-appl-msca-if_en.pdf
The Marie S. Curie call deadline is expected in September 2018.
LACA host institutions:
1. University of Amsterdam - Prof. dr.
Jeannette Schaeffer (PI), dr. Judith Rispens, dr. Jan de Jong, prof. dr. Enoch Aboh,
Natalia Rivera (PhD candidate)
Schaeffer’s team is embedded in the
Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC), ranking highest in
continental Europe for more than five years in the QS Ranking by Subject
(Linguistics). The ACLC has a beautiful renewed language lab with state-of-the-art
eye-tracking and EEG equipment. Moreover, the ACLC has strong connections with
Amsterdam Brain & Cognition (ABC), offering a platform and collaborations across
disciplines (linguistics, psychology, social sciences, economy, neurology, biology,
psychiatry, ….).
Institute/Department:
Websites (Hyperlink):
ACLC
http://aclc.uva.nl/ ABC
http://abc.uva.nl/ Contact
person (name and e-mail address):
Name of potential supervisor: Prof. Jeannette
Schaeffer: J.C.Schaeffer
uva.nl
Name of EU liaison
officer (if applicable): Dr. Daphne Lentjes: d.m.lentjes
uva.nl
Scientific expertise and facilities at the host:
Prof. dr. Jeannette
Schaeffer (PI), dr. Judith Rispens, dr. Jan de Jong, prof. dr. Enoch Aboh, Natalia
Rivera (PhD candidate)
All team members are part of the ACLC Research Group
“Grammar & Cognition” (see ACLC website), and work on the acquisition, learnability
and development of various morphosyntactic, semantic and pragmatic phenomena in
different (a)typical populations in relation to linguistic theory. They have ample
experience in cross-linguistic experimental designs, including many different
languages and have published in top journals such as Language Acquisition, Journal
of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, Journal of Child Language, Lingua, Brain &
Language.
Schaeffer’s lab focuses on the investigation of morphosyntactic,
pragmatic and extra-linguistic abilities in children with High-Functioning Autism,
within the same linguistic phenomena ((morpho)syntax-pragmatics interface phenomena,
such as passives, pronouns, direct object scrambling) and in separate phenomena
((morpho)syntax: subject-verb agreement, relative clauses, noun inflection;
pragmatics: scalar and conversational implicatures, information structure). Methods
include behavioral production and comprehension experiments, sponteaneous speech
collection and analysis, eye-tracking, and ERP.
UvA has ample experience with
hosting and administering Marie S. Curie fellowships and H2020 projects in general.
2. University of Groningen - Prof. dr. Petra Hendriks, dr. Simone
Sprenger, dr. Emar Maier, dr. Jacolien van Rij and several PhD students
Hendriks’
team is embedded in the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG). CLCG
participates in the national Dutch research school in linguistics LOT as well as the
interdisciplinary Groningen Research School of Behavioural and Cognitive
Neurosciences (BCN). Students in linguistics receive training in the Graduate School
for the Humanities and the Research Master in Linguistics, which was granted the
seal ‘top rated programme’ by the Higher Education Guide 2017. The University of
Groningen is one of the oldest universities of the Netherlands (founded in 1614) and
belongs to the top 100 large comprehensive research universities in the world.
Institute/Department:
Websites (Hyperlink):
CLCG
http://www.rug.nl/research/clcg/
BCN
http://www.rug.nl/research/behavioural-cognitive-neurosciences/
Contact person (name and e-mail address):
Name of potential
supervisor: Prof. Petra Hendriks: P.Hendriks
rug.nl
Name of
EU liaison officer (if applicable): n/a
Scientific expertise and facilities
at the host:
Prof. dr. Petra Hendriks, dr. Simone Sprenger, dr. Emar Maier, dr.
Jacolien van Rij and several PhD students
The work of the team focuses on the
relation between language and cognition and investigates the development of first
and second languages in (a)typical populations (including children with Autism
Spectrum Disorders, ADHD or cochlear implants), language attrition in elderly
adults, and the acquisition, processing and use of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic
knowledge. Linguistic phenomena that are studied include pronouns, word order,
subject-verb agreement, quantification, speech reports, idioms, irony, the language
of fiction, and verbal deception. These phenomena are studied in relation to
cognitive factors such as theory of mind, inhibition, working memory, and processing
speed. Methods of investigation include behavioral experiments, eye-tracking and
pupillometry, ERP research, formal theoretical modeling, and computational cognitive
modeling.
Hendriks’ team has active collaborations with the departments of
Psychiatry, Audiology, Psychology, Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence at the
University of Groningen, and participates in several national and international
networks and collaborations. The Groningen research institute CLCG has three own
labs (including an eye-tracking lab) and has access to the state-of-the art EEG and
fMRI equipment of the Neuro-Imaging Center (NIC) of the University Medical Center
Groningen (UMCG). The team has a special interest in production/comprehension
asymmetries in child language, perspective taking abilities in various populations,
and cognitive models of language learning and decline.
3. University
of Tours – Prof. L. Tuller, Prof. P. Prévost, Prof. S. Ferré, Prof. C. dos Santos,
Prof. R. Zebib, C. David (PhD student), E. Léger (PhD student), S. Silleresi (PhD
student)
The Tours group of linguists working on language development in ASD is
part of a multidisciplinary team (INSERM Unit 930 ‘Imagery & Brain’, Team 1
‘Autism’) combining neuroscientists, psychologists, pediatricians, and ENT
specialists exploring the physiopathological mechanisms underlying ASD symptoms,
from childhood to adulthood. It is involved in large projects focusing on clinical
symptoms (including language), genetics, metabolomics, and molecular imaging.
Moreover, the team is directly embedded in an Autism Research and Intervention
Center of Excellence (which performs clinical evaluation of about 100 patients,
children and adults, a year, and which is equipped with state-of-the-art
eye-tracking and EEG systems) at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department of
the Teaching University Hospital of Tours. This double integration (linguists in a
medical research team and in a clinical setting) is unique in France for linguists
investigating language and ASD and offers invaluable opportunities for interactions
with specialists on ASD from different backgrounds.
Institute/Department:
Websites (Hyperlink):
INSERM Unit 930 ‘Imagery and Brain’, Team 1 ‘Autism’:
http://www.u930.tours.inserm.fr/teams/team-1-autism-400358.kjsp?RH=1365083186620ABC
Contact person (name and e-mail address):
Name of potential supervisor:
Prof. Laurie Tuller: laurie.tuller
univ-tours.fr
Scientific
expertise and facilities at the host:
Prof. Laurie Tuller, Prof. Philippe
Prévost, Prof. Sandrine Ferré, Prof. Christophe dos Santos, Prof. Racha Zebib,
Céline David (PhD student), Elodie Léger (PhD student), Silvia Silleresi (PhD
student)
The psycholinguists at the University of Tours have complementary
domains of expertise (P. Prévost & L. Tuller, morphosyntax; S. Ferré, phonology; C.
dos Santos, lexicon and phonology; R. Zebib, executive functions), which allows them
to investigate different aspects of language acquisition, including language
development in contexts of pathology (SLI and ASD), in the same children. Their
research on autism focuses on formal language abilities of children from the whole
spectrum, including low functioning children, adopting a comparative approach with
children with language impairment and no diagnosis of autism, and with child second
language learners. Their interest lies in the investigation of complex derivations,
such as wh-questions, object pronouns, passives, and syllabic structure, and the way
measures of structural language interact with nonlinguistic cognition. Methods
include behavioral production and comprehension tasks, eye-tracking, and EEG. They
have recently been involved in large-scale projects exploring child L2 acquisition
(including comparison with SLI and ASD) (a project funded by the French National
Research Agency) and the identification of SLI in bilingual children (COST Action
IS0804 and a project funded jointly by the French and German national research
agencies), and have published in top journals such as Applied Psycholinguistics,
Brain & Language, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, Language
Acquisition, Lingua, and Second Language Research.
4. University of
Potsdam - Prof. dr. Flavia Adani (PI), Dr. Christine Schipke, Maja
Stegenwallner-Schütz (PhD candidate)
Adani’s lab (ALADDIN) is part of the
Department of Linguistics and of the Research Focus Cognitive Science (RFCS) at the
University of Potsdam, which is widely recognized as one of the leading cognitive
science institutes in Germany. The institute has a state-of-the art language
acquisition lab (BabyLab) with head-turn, eye-tracking, EEG equipment. Moreover,
Adani’s lab has strong connections with the Psychology Institute at the Humboldt
University in Berlin, offering a platform and collaborations across disciplines
(linguistics, psychology, social sciences, cognitive sciences).
Institute/Department:
Websites (Hyperlink):
ALADDIN
http://www.uni-potsdam.de/aladdin/index.html
BabyLAB
http://www.uni-potsdam.de/babylab/index.html
RFCS
http://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/cognitive-sciences/index.html
Contact person (name and e-mail address):
Name of potential
supervisor: Prof. Flavia Adani: adani
uni-potsdam.de
Scientific expertise and facilities at the host:
Prof. dr. Flavia Adani
(PI), Dr. Christine Schipke, Prof. dr. Isabel Dziobek, Prof. dr. Barbara Höhle,
Prof. dr. Isabell Wartenburger, Maja Stegenwallner-Schütz (PhD candidate)
The
psycholinguistic research conducted at the ALADDIN Lab focuses on how children
develop receptive and expressive language skills, starting from the first years of
life until these skills are consolidated in grown-up children, adolescents and
adults. We conduct experimental studies where typically-developing groups are
compared to those of children and adolescents affected by developmental disorders
(for example, Specific Language Impairment and Autistic Spectrum Disorders). We hope
that the results of our research can be useful to understand the interaction of
language with other cognitive abilities and so to develop new tools to promote early
assessment and rehabilitation of language disorders. Among the phenomena
investigated are: non-local dependencies, topicalization, use and processing of
referring expressions, article choice, lexical development. In order to address
theoretical- as well as clinically-oriented questions regarding these domains, we
analyze explicit language skills combined to implicit ones (eye-movements, ERPs). We
have published on international peer-reviewed journals such as J. of Child Language,
First Language, Lingua, Frontiers in Psychology, Developmental Science,
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, NeuroImage.
5.
University of Milano-Bicocca - Prof. dr. Maria Teresa Guasti, dr. Francesca Foppolo,
dr. Fabrizio Arosio, dr. Francesca Panzeri
Guasti’s team is embedded in the
Department of Psychology of the University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB). In 2013,
UNIMIB was included in the QS World University Rankings and in 2015 it was 1st in
Italy and 24th in the world according to the “Times Higher Education 100 under 50”
table, which ranks the world’s top 100 universities under 50 years of existence. The
Department has been ranked second among the big Departments in Italy (more than 80
staff members) in the last evaluation and the Linguistic team in the Department has
been ranked first. The Department has several labs, state-of-the-art eye-tracking,
EEG equipment, observational lab, psycholinguistic lab. Moreover, the team has
strong connections with Centre for Neuroscience (NeuroMi), offering a platform and
collaborations across disciplines.
Institute/Department:
Websites
(Hyperlink):
BIL group
http://www.bilgroup.it/it/home/
Bilinguismoconta
www.bilinguismoconta.it
Neuromi:
https://neuromi.it/ Contact
person (name and e-mail address):
Name of potential supervisor: Prof. Maria
Teresa Guasti: mariateresa.guasti
unimib.it
Name of EU
liaison officer (if applicable): Laura Masiero laura.masiero
unimib.it
Scientific expertise and facilities at the host:
Prof. dr Maria Teresa
Guasti (PI), dr. Francesca Foppolo, dr. Fabrizio Arosio, dr. Francesca Panzeri,
Mirta Vernice (post doc), Francesca Costa (Ph D candidate), Valentina Persici (Ph D
Candidate), Beatrice Giustolisi (Ph D Candidate)
All team members are part of
the BILGroup and of Bilinguismoconta (see websites), and work on the acquisition,
learnability and development of various morphosyntactic, semantic and pragmatic
phenomena in different (a)typical populations in relation to linguistic theory. They
have ample experience in cross-linguistic experimental designs, including many
different languages and have published in top journals such as Language Acquisition,
Journal of Child Language, Lingua, Journal of Clinical linguistics, Applied
Psycholinguistics.
Guasti’s lab focuses on the investigation of morphosyntactic,
pragmatic and musical-related abilities in children with High-Functioning Autism, as
subject-verb agreement, relative clauses, clitics scalar and conversational
implicatures, predictive abilities in music and language. Methods include behavioral
production and comprehension experiments, sponteaneous speech collection and
analysis, eye-tracking.
UNIMIB has ample experience with hosting and
administering Marie S. Curie fellowships and H2020 projects in general.
6. University of Haifa – Dr. Rama Novogrodsky (PI), Prof. irit Meir, Dr. Natlia
Meir (post Doc).
Novogrodsky’s team is embedded in the Department of
Communication Sciences and Disorders and in the Sign Language Research Lab. The team
has strong connections with the University Clinic and other labs in the university,
offering a platform and collaborations across disciplines.
Institute/Department:
Websites (Hyperlink):
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorder
http://hw.haifa.ac.il/en/cd-staff-senior
Sign Language Research Lab
http://signlab.haifa.ac.il/
Contact person (name and e-mail address):
Name of potential supervisor:
Dr. Rama Novogrodsky: ramanovo
gmail.com
Name of EU
liaison officer (if applicable):
Scientific expertise and facilities at the
host:
Dr. Rama Novogrodsky, Prof. irit Meir, Dr. Natalia Meir (post Doc).
The lab team focuses on the interaction between language development and
cognitive development and how different components of language (such as syntax,
semantics, phonology and pragmatics) disassociate and interact. The team explores
these questions by studying diverse populations including: typically developing
children, bilingual children, children with specific language impairment, children
with autism, children with hearing impairment, and deaf children who use sign
language. Methods include production and comprehension experiments, self-paced
listening and naturalistic language analysis.
7. Technological
Educational Institute of Western Greece, Patras
Prof. Arhonto Terzi, Dr.
Eleftheria Geronikou, Dr. Konstantinos Francis, Anthi Zafeiri MSc., Dimitra Bafa,
BSc.
Terzi’s team is embedded in the Laboratory “Theoretical and experimental
linguistics- typical acquisition and impairments (Lingstructure)” hosted by the
Department of Speech & Language Therapy. The Lab contains state-of-the-art equipment
that includes an eye-tracker and units for speech analysis. It has strong
connections with a) the Clinic of the Department, b) practitioners throughout the
country, c) the Department of Linguistics of the University of Patras, and d) the
Medical School of the University of Patras, ensuring interdisciplinary
collaborations.
Institute/Department:
Websites (Hyperlink):
Lab:
http://www.teiwest.gr/index.php/en/research/research-labs/item/519-linguistics
Department:
http://www.teiwest.gr/index.php/en/schools/health-school/logoth
Contact person (name and e-mail address):
Name of potential supervisor:
Prof. Arhonto Terzi: aterzi
teiwest.gr
Name of EU liaison
officer (if applicable): Konstantina (Dina) Boba: boba
teiwest.gr
Scientific expertise and facilities at the host:
Prof. Arhonto Terzi
(Linguist), Dr. Eleftheria Geronikou (Speech-Language Pathologist), Dr. Konstantinos
Francis, MD, (Child Psychologist), Anthi Zafeiri (Linguist & Speech-Language
Pathologist), Dimitra Bafa (Speech & Language Pathologist).
All team members are
part of the Lingstructure Lab and have worked on the acquisition and development of
various morphosyntactic phenomena and their interfaces with semantics, pragmatics
and phonology in different atypical populations (children and adults), as well as in
early typical language. They have experience in cross-linguistic experimental
designs, and have published in journals such as Language Acquisition, Journal of
Child Language, Lingua, Brain & Language, Journal of Autism and Developmental
Disorders, Child Language Teaching and Therapy.
In relation to the particular
network, Terzi’s Lab has focused on the investigation of morphosyntax and its
interface with semantics, pragmatics and phonology, primarily of children with
High-Functioning Autism. Structures and phenomena that have been studied are
passives, Binding, reflexives, pronouns (strong and clitics) and information
structure. It is now extending its expertise to individuals in other parts of the
autism spectrum and is particularly interested in further sharpening specific
aspects of information structure, with the aim to better understand how it deviates
in autism but also use this knowledge in the study of typical language.
Other
atypical conditions that have been studied in the lab are Broca’s aphasia, Parkinson
and SLI. Other areas of grammar that have been investigated are relative clauses ,
the intervention effects that the various morphosyntactic features may pose on them,
and where in the cognitive systems the effects are located . Methods include
production and comprehension experiments, spontaneous speech collection and
analysis, and, recently, eye-tracking.
8. University of
Cambridge - Prof. Ianthi Tsimpli (PI), Dr Napoleon Katsos, Dr Ozge Oszturk
As
part of the Department for Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, the team in
Cambridge includes senior researchers with established positions (Prof. Ianthi
Tsimpli, Dr Napoleon Katsos) , postdoctoral researchers (Dr Elaine Schmidt, Dr Ana
Perez-Munoz, Dr Ozge Oszturk ) and five PhD students who work on various aspects of
first and second language acquisition in atypically-developing children, especially
children with autism. Our group has strong connections with other Faculties and
disciplines thanks to the Cambridge Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Language
Sciences (Prof. Tsimpli is one of the two Directors of the IRC)..
Institute/Department:
Websites (Hyperlink):
DTAL:
http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/dtal
CAMPAL:
https://sites.google.com/site/cambridgecampal/
Contact person (name and e-mail address):
Name of potential
supervisor: Prof. Ianthi Tsimpli, imt20
cam.ac.uk, Dr
Napoleon Katsos, nk248
cam.ac.uk
Name of EU liaison officer (if applicable): Andrea Salter andrea.salter
admin.cam.ac.uk
+44(0)1223 764079 and Renata Schaeffer h2020
admin.cam.ac.uk +
44 1223 333543
Scientific expertise and facilities at the host:
The
team has strong interests in the acquisition and processing of syntax, semantics,
pragmatics and discourse by typically and atypically-developing children
(monolingual and multilingual). Our team includes CamPAL ( (Cambridge Processing and
Acquisition of Language Lab) with EEG, eye-tracking and behavioural data methods and
the relevant equipment is available in-house. Extensive collaborations with
Education, Biological Sciences, Psychology and Humanities and Social Sciences are in
place through the IRC and as individual collaborations between the team members and
colleagues from these Faculties and Schools.
The Cambridge team has lead
several international multi-institutional projects leading to publications in key
journals such as Applied Psycholinguistics, Cognition, and PNAS among others.
Linguistic Field(s): Clinical Linguistics; Cognitive Science; General
Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics
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