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[Morgan, Gary]

Job advertisement

RESEARCH POSITION IN SIGN LANGUAGE TRANSCRIPTION
Department of Language and Communication Science
City University London, UK 
http://www.city.ac.uk/lcs/

Duration and starting date: The 12 month full time position will begin as
soon as possible in 2004, with a flexible start date.  

Salary: £22,000 - £27,000

DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT

Sharing BSL acquisition data
The research project, funded by the ESRC, aims to adapt a transcription
system widely used in spoken language research to the study of British Sign
Language (BSL) in order to support our current research concerning BSL
development.  The Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES) is one of
the best-known transcription, coding and analysis software available for the
study of child language (see MacWhinney, 2000).  In the past four years a
transcription and coding system for American (ASL) and Dutch Sign Languages
(LSN) based within the CHILDES programme has been developed by Hoiting &
Slobin (see http://www.colorado.edu/slhs/btsweb/).  We aim to adapt the BTS
to BSL and enable an already collected data archive to be transcribed and
coded for further analyses.  

We are looking for a research assistant who will benefit from training on
BTS, actively contribute to the development of the transcription system
under our supervision, to decision making regarding the data coding and to
the dissemination of the results of this project to the broader academic
community.

The successful candidate will also be eligible to take Masters level courses
in Sign Language linguistics and Deaf studies run in the department as part
of their training.

Required qualifications: First degree or higher in Psychology, Linguistics
or related discipline

Desired: 
1. Knowledge of BSL or fluency in another signed language;
2. Ability to carry out basic linguistic analysis;
3. Experience working with child language transcriptions in the CHILDES
programme;
4. Abilities to work independently and as a member of a team;
5. Organized and with good time management skills.
 
Application: 
Please send  (1) a cover letter of interest describing research interests,
goals and
career plans, (2) a current curriculum vitae (3) names of three referees.
Address for Applications:
Dr. Gary Morgan
Department of Language and Communication Science
City University, London, 
Northampton Sq, EC1V 0HB, UK 
g.morgan at city.ac.uk

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