PhD studentships

[Anna Theakston]

Ph.D studentships for the study of language development

Applications are invited for two funded Ph.D studentships in
the Department of Psychology at the University of Manchester,
UK.  Students will be attached to the Max Planck Child Study
Centre in the Department of Psychology and they will be funded
by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology,
Leipzig,  Germany.  The Child Study Centre is run by Drs. Elena
Lieven and Michael Tomasello of the Max Planck Institute.
Their research centres on the development of grammar and
consists of the collection and analysis of  naturalistic and
experimental data for both English and German-speaking
children.

Applicants must have, or expect to attain this summer,  a good
honours degree in Psychology, Linguistics
or an associated discipline.

Funding will consist of  21.600DM per annum plus support for
travel and equipment.  The Home/EC rate for fees will be paid
by the MPG.  Non-EC students will normally have to find the
difference between the EC fee and the Overseas fee themselves
(6140 sterling).

Applications must be made on University of Manchester
Postgraduate Application forms which can be obtained from Ms.
Sylvia Lavelle, Department of Psychology, University of
Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.

Preliminary enquiries to Elena Lieven or Michael Tomasello can
be made via Katharina Haberl at:  Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology, Inselstr.22, D-04103, Germany.
Email: haberl at eva.mpg.de