30.1354, Jobs: Chhintange; German, Swiss; Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Psycholinguistics: Post Doc, University of Zurich

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Subject: 30.1354, Jobs: Chhintange; German, Swiss; Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Psycholinguistics: Post Doc, University of Zurich

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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 15:02:54
From: Manuel Widmer [manuel.widmer at uzh.ch]
Subject: Chhintange; German, Swiss; Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Psycholinguistics: Post Doc, University of Zurich, Switzerland

 
University or Organization: University of Zurich 
Department: Department of Comparative Linguistics
Job Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Web Address: https://www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en.html
Job Title: Postdoctoral Researcher in Psycholinguistics / Cognitive Linguistics
Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Psycholinguistics 

Required Language(s): Chhintange (ctn)
                      German, Swiss (gsw) 

Description:

The Department of Comparative Linguistics, in collaboration with the
Department of Psychology at the University of Zurich invites applications for
a 4-year Postdoctoral Researcher position in the Swiss National Science
Foundation project “Ergativity, Event Cognition and Evolutionary Biases in
Language”. The project investigates the relationship between agent preferences
in event cognition and language structure in a diverse set of languages. The
postdoctoral researcher will conduct eye tracking and EEG experiments on
Chintang (Sino-Tibetan) and Swiss German, with both children and adults and
together with corpus studies. The experiments on Chintang will be carried out
during several field trips in Eastern Nepal.

The ideal candidate holds a PhD in linguistics, psychology, cognitive science,
cognitive neuroscience, or a similar field. The ideal candidate also possesses
prior experience with one or more of the following: Linguistic fieldwork, eye
tracking and/or EEG, experimental studies with babies and infants, programming
(R, Python, MATLAB ), statistical data analysis. Knowledge of Nepali or
willingness to acquire a working knowledge of the language quickly is
essential. 

Apart from their CVs, applicants should submit: 
- A sample of their writing (dissertation chapter, article), 
- Names of 2-3 persons willing to provide a letter of reference, and 
- A cover letter explaining their expertise and interest in the project. 

We strongly aim at gender balance and particularly encourage women to apply. 

Applications should be sent as a single PDF to the application email provided
below, with the subject header “E3 Postdoc”. 

Application deadline is April 15, 2019. 

The starting date is October 1, 2019. 

For further information contact balthasar.bickel at uzh.ch or martin.meyer at uzh.ch



Application Deadline: 15-Apr-2019 
	  
Email Address for Applications: jobs at ivs.uzh.ch 
Contact Information:
	Prof. Balthasar Bickel 
	Email: balthasar.bickel at uzh.ch 


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