Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Modeling

[Ambridge, Ben]

Dear colleagues

I would be grateful if you could circulate the attached job advertisement

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http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AEO142/postdoctoral-research-associate/
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
Computational Modeling: Child Language Acquisition
University of Liverpool

Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Institute Of Psychology, Health and Society

£31,020 pa

You will join a child language modeling project, led by Dr Franklin Chang.  The project will involve the development of a connectionist model of syntax acquisition that will be fit to range of acquisition phenomena (e.g., grammaticality judgments, preferential looking, elicited production).  You will be responsible for programming and analysing a neural network of syntax acquisition.  You should have a PhD in psychology, computer science or a closely related field and have experience programming (C++, Java, statistical packages such as R) and an interest in connectionist models and syntactic development. The post is available for 2 years, commencing 1 October 2012.

Job Ref: R-577723                                                                                               
Closing Date: 1 August 2012

For full details, or to request an application pack, please APPLY ONLINE below, or e-mail jobs at liv.ac.uk, please quote Job Ref in all enquiries

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