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<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3><b>University of Hamburg<br>
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</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>Collaborative Research Center
on Multilingualism <br>
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<font size=3 color="#0000FF"><u>sfb538@uni-hamburg.de<br>
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</u></font><font size=3>Job opportunities as of April 1st, 2001<br>
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<b>1 post-doctoral researcher (full position)<br>
or<br>
2 post-graduate researchers (half positions)<br>
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in a research project on "Simultaneous and Successive Acquisition of
Bilingualism" (Principal investigator: J. M. Meisel). This project
investigates similarities and differences in grammatical development
between bilingual first language acquisition, monolingual first language
acquisition, and adult second language acquisition. It is one of 13
projects of the Collaborative Research Center on Multilingualism funded
by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, German Research Foundation)
established at the University of Hamburg in 1999.<br>
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All positions begin April 1st 2001 and will extend until at least June
30, 2002, the end of the current funding period. They can be further
extended for a total of five years, in accordance with § 57b
Hochschulrahmengesetz. The salary of the post-doctoral researcher
corresponds to that of a lecturer in German universities (BAT IIa); the
weekly work load amounts to 38 hours. The post-graduate researchers must
hold an M.A. (or equivalent). He or she will receive approximately half
of the BAT IIa salary for a work load of 19,5 hours per week and will be
expected to complete a doctoral dissertation on a topic related to the
theme of the research project. The post-doctoral candidate will be
expected to co-direct this research group together with J.M. Meisel.
Research results obtained during the work on this projects may be
included in the dissertation.<br>
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Requirements are: good knowledge of syntactic theory (Principles and
Parameters Theory and/or the Minimalist Program), experience with
language acquisition research, and good knowledge of at least two of the
following languages: German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Basque. Also
desirable would be experience with corpus analysis and/or computer
skills.<br>
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The University of Hamburg wishes to increase the number of women among
their academic staff and therefore encourages women to apply. In
accordance with Hamburg law (Gleichstellungsgesetz), female candidates
will be given priority in case of equal qualifications with male
applicants.<br>
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Handicapped applicants will be given priority over other candidates, in
case of equal qualifications. <br>
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Send application (including CV, list of publications, names of two
referees) by February 24th, 2001 to Prof. J. M. Meisel at the above
address; for further inquiries contact J.M. Meisel at
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or visit our homepage at
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