post-doc position on phonological acquisition

[JAN EDWARDS]

Hi everyone,

Below is a description of a post-doc position for Sept. 2005 (or soon thereafter).  Please let me know if you are interested or if you could recommend anyone for this position.  Thanks!

Yours,
Jan Edwards

A post-doctoral fellowship is available on a study of cross-linguistic phonological acquisition
(see http://ling.osu.edu/~edwards for a detailed description of the project).  The post-doctoral position is located in the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI. The traineeship, funded by a National Institutes of Health 
training grant, will be available in September, 2005 (with some flexibility in the start date). The position requires that the candidate be a US citizen or have a green card.  The University of Wisconsin has a strong cognitive science faculty and the Waisman Center at UW offers post-docs a series of lectures and seminars and the opportunity to interact with other post-docs, doctoral students, and faculty in a multi-disciplinary environment.

The post-doc will be directly supervised by Dr. Jan Edwards to work on a project that is going to run jointly at two sites – the University of Wisconsin (with Dr. Jan Edwards) and Ohio State University (with Dr. Mary Beckman).  The post-doc will be based at the University of Wisconsin, but will also be a liaison between the two sites and can expect to travel to Columbus, OH about 6 times/year.  One focus of the position will be to work out a system for reliable transcription of lingual obstruents across four languages (Cantonese, English, Greek, and Japanese) which have different category boundaries for these sounds.  The post-doc will also be expected to develop his or her own original research related to this project.  Applicants should have strong experimental phonetic skills.  Knowledge of Praat and R is helpful, but not essential.

For more information on the research project and the role of the postdoctoral fellow, please contact Dr. Jan Edwards at edwards.212 at osu.edu or 614 292-1742.

Applicants should send a letter of interest, a curriculum vitae, and 
references to the training grant director:

Raymond Kent, PhD, Professor 
Department of Communicative Disorders 
University of Wisconsin
1975 Willow Drive
Madison, WI 53706
tel: 608 263-7109  

Or by email to: kent at waisman.wisc.edu 

Credentials will be reviewed when received. A hiring decision will be made 
as rapidly as possible. The University of Wisconsin is an equal opportunity 
employer committed to excellence through diversity.