[EDLING:543] Lang Acquisition: PhD Fellowship, Odense, Denmark

[Tamara Warhol]

Message 1: Lang Acquisition: PhD Fellowship, Odense, Denmark
Date: 17-Jan-2005
From: Dorthe Bleses <bleses at language.sdu.dk>
Subject: Lang Acquisition: PhD Fellowship, Odense, Denmark


University or Organization: University of Southern Denmark, Odense
 Job Rank: PhD
 Specialty Areas: psychology (preferably developmental or
 cognitive), psycho-linguistics or language psychology, phonetics,
 "lab-phonology" or speech pathology
 PhD-Fellowship in Language Acquisition

 The Institute of Language and Communication, University of Southern
 Denmark, Odense, offers a PhD- Fellowship for appointment February 1st 2005
 or as soon as possible thereafter, at The Center for Language Acquisition.
 The PhD-stipend is advertised in affiliation with the WHISPER-project (the
 Widex Hearing Impaired Speech Research-Project) with the title 'The
 interaction between segmentation strategies and mental representations of
 language sounds and language production in normal and hearing impaired
 populations' financed by Widex A/S and University of Southern Denmark. The
 aim of the project is to investigate the relations between segmentation
 strategies and mental representations of language sounds in both normal and
 hearing impaired populations. The project will include the establishment of
 new experimental lab-facilities at the University of Southern Denmark.
 The PhD-project will be one of several sub-projects in the overall
 WHISPER-project, whose common general objective is to investigate the early
 processing of speech-sounds in normally hearing and hearing impaired
 children, paying special attention to whether a reduced access to the
 auditory signal - with the use of different types of amplification -
 implies a diverging development of mental mechanisms and processes in
 relation to the processing of sounds, representation of sounds and speech
 production as compared to the development in hearing children. The
 PhD-stipend will include experimental investigation of the early phases of
 the acquisition of speech in normally hearing and hearing impaired
 children. The selected applicant will be part of the research-milieu at the
 Center for Language Acquisition as well as the established PhD-network at
 the Institute of Language and Communication. Relevant educational
 prerequisites could be e.g. psychology (preferably developmental or
 cognitive), psycho-linguistics or language psychology, phonetics,
 "lab-phonology" or speech pathology. Experience with working experimentally
 is an advantage. The job does not necessarily require basic Danish language
 skills prior to employment, which opens the position up for foreign
 applicants with relevant background and research interests. A specific
 project description will be drawn up within the first part of the
 stipend-period. Applicants can obtain further information concerning the
 project as well as the stipend by contacting project-director,
 Center-director Dorthe Bleses (see contact information) or by reading the
 full announcement on www.jobs.sdu.dk
 Engagement as a PhD Research Fellow is for three years. Employment stops
 automatically at the end of the period. The holder of the stipend is not
 allowed to have other paid employment during the 3-year period.
 Application must be forwarded on a special application-form which can be
 ordered from the Faculty of Humanities, Phone: (+45) 6550 2931 - or you can
 find the form on the University´s Homepage:
 http://www.humaniora.sdu.dk ;
 As part of the overall assessment of the applicant's qualifications, an
 interview may be applied. Employment as a salaried PhD Research Fellow is
 governed by a
 protocol on PhD Research Fellows signed by the Danish Ministry of Finance
 and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations on 4 April 2003.
 The University encourages all interested persons to apply, regardless of
 age, gender, religious affiliation or ethnic background.
 Please send the application, marked "Job ID 056003", including enclosures
 and publications on which the applicant wishes to rely, in 4 copies to The
 Faculty of Humanities. The application must reach the University no later
 than Jan. 20th 2005 at 12.00 hours (noon).
 Address for Applications:
 Project-director Dorothe Bleses
 bleses at language.sdu.dk
 +45 6550 3346
 +45 6550 3180

 Project-director Dorothe Bleses
 Faculty of Humanities, University of Southern Denmark
 Campusvej 55
 5230 Odense M  DK-5230
 Denmark

 website:  http://www.humaniora.sdu.dk/

--
Tamara Warhol
PhD Student
Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
warholt at dolphin.upenn.edu