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Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 14:57:15
From: Marit Westergaard [marit.westergaard at uit.no]
Subject: General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Morphology; Psycholinguistics; Syntax: Post Doc, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

 
University or Organization: University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway 
Department: Department of Language and Linguistics
Job Location: Tromsø, Norway 
Web Address: https://castl.uit.no/index.php/acquisition
Job Title: Postdoc (Acquisition, Variation & Attrition)
Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Morphology; Psycholinguistics; Syntax 


Description:

For a number of years, the acquisition research group at CASTL/Department of
Language and Linguistics has worked on monolingual language acquisition,
focusing on linguistic phenomena where there is variation in the input, e.g.
word order variation expressing fine distinctions in syntax and information
structure. In recent years, there has been an increased focus on variation in
a bilingual/multilingual perspective, i.e. bilingual acquisition (2L1), second
and third language acquisition (L2 and L3), as well as heritage languages
(e.g. Norwegian in the USA or Russian in Norway). Recent and current research
projects in the LAVA group study language combinations such as
Norwegian-English, Norwegian-Russian, Norwegian-North Sami, Ukrainian-English,
Latvian-Russian, Spanish-English-Portuguese, as well as English as an L3 (in
combination with Norwegian and a Slavic language). There is also increasing
interest in investigations of two closely related varieties, e.g.
Brazilian-European Portuguese, Norwegian-Swedish, Spanish-Catalan, or two
Norwegian dialects. The advertised post-doctoral position opens up for
research projects on the same or other relevant language or dialect
combinations. 

The work of the LAVA group has a theoretical foundation and the focus is on
the mental grammars of various populations of speakers. The object of study is
syntactic microvariation and the importance of factors such as complexity,
frequency or economy in the acquisition process and in heritage language
situations. The research methodology includes both corpora of spontaneous
production as well as different types of experimental work (production
experiments, eyetracking). Applicants for the advertised post-doc position
should propose a research project that will strengthen and complement the
research profile of the LAVA group.



Application Deadline: 01-Aug-2015 
	  
Web Address for Applications: http://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/113793/post-doctoral-research-fellowship-in-linguistics-at-the-department-of-language-and-linguistics 
Contact Information:
	Professor Marit Westergaard 
	Email: marit.westergaard at uit.no 


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