two year post-doctoral position MPI for Psycholinguistics

[Nanjo Bogdanowicz]

Two year post-doctoral position

The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen, the 
Netherlands) is offering a two year post-doctoral position in the field 
of cognitive development/first language acquisition. The post is without 
teaching responsibilities and comes with considerable technical support 
and assistance for running experiments.

The candidate would work within the Categories and Concepts Across 
Language and Culture project, which investigates variation and 
constraints in semantic categories across languages and the relationship 
between linguistic and non-linguistic representations. A focal area for 
the project is the linguistic encoding of the senses across the world’s 
languages, and current work examines whether some sensory modalities are 
more readily expressed in language than others (e.g., is smell more 
codable than color)? The candidate would be expected to contribute to 
the project by conducting research on perceptual categorization in 
children and/or on acquisition of language for different sensory 
modalities. There are opportunities to collaborate with members of the 
Acquisition group and Language & Cognition group. A background in 
developmental psychology or first language acquisition is essential. 
Experience with cross-linguistic work/fieldwork would be welcome, but is 
not necessary.

Applications should include: a curriculum vitae, including a full list 
of publications, the names of two referees who would be willing to write 
letters of recommendation, examples of published work and a cover letter 
describing research interests and how the candidate would contribute to 
the Categories project.

Please send applications to Nanjo Bogdanowicz (Nanjo.Bogdanowicz at mpi.nl).

For more information about the position,
email Asifa Majid (Asifa.Majid at mpi.nl).

Deadline for applications is 1st November 2007, with a view to an 
immediate start date (although the starting date is negotiable).



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Nanjo Bogdanowicz
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
P.O.Box 310					Phone+31 (0)24 3521454
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nanjo.bogdanowicz at mpi.nl