ph.d studentships

[Elena Lieven]

Ph.D. studentships for the study of language development

Applications are invited for two funded Ph.D. studentships.  Students
will be attached to the Max Planck Child Study Centre and registered for
degrees in the Department of Psychology at the University of
Manchester.  The Centre is run by Dr. Elena Lieven and is funded by the
Department of Comparative Psychology (Director: Professor Michael
Tomasello) at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology,
Leipzig, Germany.  

Tomasello and Lieven's research in the Centre focuses on the development
of language (especially grammar) and consists in the collection and
analysis of naturalistic and experimental data for both English and
German-speaking children.

You must have or expect to attain this summer, a good honours degree in
Psychology, Linguistics or an associated discipline.

Funding will consist of 21.600DM per annum plus support for travel and
equipment.  The Home/EC rate for fees will be paid by the MPI.  Non-EC
students will normally have to find the difference between the EC fee
and the Overseas fee themselves (about £6500).

Applications must be made on University of Manchester postgraduate
application forms, which can be obtained from Ms. Sylvia Lavelle,
Department of Psychology, The University of Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
(email: lavelle at fs4.psy.man.ac.uk) and completed applications must reach
Ms. Lavelle by 16th February 2001 at the latest.  Interviews for
UK-based candidates are expected to take place on March 1st 2001.

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Elena Lieven
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Inselstrasse 22
D-04103, Leipzig,
Germany

Tel: 00 49 341 99 52 404 (secretary: Henriette Zeidler: 400)

Email: lieven at eva.mpg.de