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[Mick Perkins]

  RESEARCH ASSOCIATE IN CLINICAL LINGUISTICS

  DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION SCIENCES

  UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD

  Applications are invited for the above ESRC-funded post which is tenable
for
  1 year in the first instance, starting from July 2000 (or as soon as
  possible thereafter), to investigate abnormal vocabulary use in the
  conversation of young adults with autism. The post involves the
development
  of a lexical coding system for a corpus of autistic conversation, the
  analysis (and some transcription) of the corpus, and the preparation of
the
  corpus for inclusion in the CHILDES data archive.

  Applicants should have a good first degree (and preferably a higher
degree)
  in Linguistics, Psycholinguistics or Speech and Language Therapy, and be
  skilled in the transcription and analysis of spoken language data.
  Experience in computational corpus linguistics and/or knowledge of autism
  would be an advantage.

  * Salary up to GBP16,683 pa
  * Closing date for applications 30 May 2000
  * Reference Number: PRW151

  For further details and information on how to apply, go to the following
  website:
    http://www.shef.ac.uk/jobs/acadjobs/prw151.html

Informal enquiries to:
Dr Mick Perkins
Department of Human Communication Sciences
University of Sheffield
Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 2408
e-mail:  m.perkins at sheffield.ac.uk