PhD position at Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS) Berlin

[Nadja Kuehn]

PhD position at Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS) Berlin:


We invite applications for a part time PhD research position (50%) in first
language acquisition starting October the 1st, 2012.

The position is part of a two year DFG-grant on the acquisition of
connectives (and/but) in German, English and Bulgarian at the Centre for
General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin. Funding for additional 12 months is
likely.

The position is remunerated according to E13 of the German TVOeD payscale.

The required research concerns mainly experimental investigations in the
development of semantic connotations and the syntactic embedding of
*but*in English- and partly German-learning children in the age range
from 2:0
to 6;0. Applicants must have completed their university degree by the time
of appointment, and must have a strong research interest and, ideally, some
experience in language acquisition research, specifically discourse related
syntactic development and experimental work. Fluent competence in German
and English is required.


Please, submit applications until August, 31st 2012 via electronic mail to
Dagmar Bittner (bittner at zas.gwz-berlin.de) and include the following four
items:

1) a curriculum vitae including a list of publications;

2) electronic copies of three representative publications in pdf-format;

3) a letter of intent specifying research experience in detail;

4) the names of at least two scholars to be contacted for letters of
recommendation.


Overall academic promise and accomplishment are the primary selection
criteria.

The ZAS is a research institute of the State of Berlin receiving major
financial support from the German Federal Government. Its five main
divisions currently focus on the general research program Embedding,
linkage and constituent boundaries in speech, grammar and discourse. Duties
are primarily research-oriented, which can include some administration and
acquisition of external funding.

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