[Corpora-List] Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge (UK)

[Anna Korhonen]

University of Cambridge
Post-doctoral Research Associate

Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain, 
Department of Experimental Psychology

£25,888 - £33,780


Applications are invited for a three year 
post-doctoral position to conduct 
psycholinguistic research into the dynamic 
systems underlying human language comprehension, 
working in an interdisciplinary research environment

This is a position funded by an interdisciplinary 
EPSRC (UK) grant to Lorraine Tyler (Centre for 
Speech. Language and the Brain, University of 
Cambridge), William Marslen-Wilson (MRC Cognition 
and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge), Anna 
Korhonen (Computing Laboratory, University of 
Cambridge) and Paula Buttery (Research Centre for 
English and Applied Linguistics, University of 
Cambridge), which aims to integrate research in 
cognitive neuroscience, experimental 
psycholinguistics and Natural Language Processing 
(NLP).  Modern advances in NLP provide much more 
realistic analyses of the statistical properties 
of language use.  The aim of the project is to 
integrate these analyses with neuro-imaging 
investigations of how brain systems respond to 
variations in the statistical properties of 
linguistic inputs at different levels of 
description (morphological, syntactic, semantic).

Applicants should have doctoral training in 
experimental psycholinguistics and experience in 
computer programming with a willingness to take 
on the challenge of systematically relating the 
statistical properties of linguistic inputs to experimental behavioural data.

The position will be based in the Centre for 
Speech, Language and the Brain at the University 
of Cambridge.  The proposed start date is 1 October 2008.

Further particulars and the application form PD18 
can be obtained from Mrs Dixon 
(csladmin at csl.psychol.cam.ac.uk) or downloaded 
from our website at 
http://csl.psychol.cam.ac.uk/vacancies.html. 
Applicants should send a copy of their curriculum 
vitae with the names, addresses and email 
addresses of three referees and a completed cover 
sheet (Form PD18, Parts I and III only, Reference 
number PJ03475) to Mrs Marie Dixon, Department of 
Experimental Psychology, Downing Street, 
Cambridge, CB2 3EB (email: 
csladmin at csl.psychol.cam.ac.uk), by 26 June 
2008.  For informal discussion of this post, 
contact Lorraine K Tyler: lktyler at csl.psychol.cam.ac.uk


The University is committed to equality of opportunity.

Closing date for applications: 26 June 2008


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