postdoctoral position

[Elena Lieven]

Postdoctoral position in language acquisition

Julian Pine and Elena Lieven are looking for a postdoctoral researcher
to work on an ESRC-funded project on lexical specificity in early
grammatical development and its possible relation to lexical specificity
in child-directed speech from a constructivist perspective. This is a
two-year post based at the Department of Psychology at the University of
Nottingham and the position is available from May 1999.  Although the
exact starting time is negotiable, we would hope to appoint a candidate
as early as possible.  The appointment will be on the RA1A scale with a
salary of between £15,735 and £20,107 depending on qualifications and
experience.

The position will involve working on an extensive database of
naturalistic speech data from 12 English-speaking children and their
mothers between the ages of 2 and 3 years all of which have already been
transcribed in CHAT format. Applicants should have completed a Ph.D. in
psychology, linguistics or a related discipline (preferably on some
aspect of language acquisition), and should be prepared to develop their
own research line within the general remit of the project as a whole.
Familiarity with the CHILDES system would also be an advantage

Please send a C.V., statement of research interests, two letters of
recommendation, and a sample of written work on a relevant topic to:

Julian Pine
Department of Psychology
University of Nottingham
Nottingham
NG7 2RD
United Kingdom

tel:    +44 115 9515285
fax:    +44 115 9515324
e-mail: jp at psyc.nott.ac.uk

Deadline for receipt of applications: Friday 19th March 1999