26.4963, Jobs: Language Acquisition: Post Doc, University of Melbourne

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Subject: 26.4963, Jobs: Language Acquisition: Post Doc, University of Melbourne

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Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2015 11:59:34
From: Gillian Wigglesworth [g.wigglesworth at unimelb.edu.au]
Subject: Language Acquisition: Post Doc, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

University or Organization: University of Melbourne 
Department: School of Languages and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts
Job Location: Melbourne, Australia 
Web Address: http://go.unimelb.edu.au/2jja
Job Title: Postdoctoral Fellow - Indigenous Child Language Development
Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Language Acquisition 

Description:

School of Languages and Linguistics 
Faculty of Arts
University of Melbourne

Indigenous applicants are strongly encouraged to apply for this position.

Salary: AUD$64,863* - AUD$88,016 p.a. (*PhD Entry Level AUD$81,998 p.a.) plus 17% superannuation  

Language is perhaps the most remarkable innovation in the history of the human species giving us an effective means to cooperate in groups, pursue complex ideas and develop unique perspectives of our world. The ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (COEDL) is investigating language as a diverse, dynamic and evolving organism that interacts with our perceptual processes in ingenious ways. Understanding why the world's languages are designed so differently—and how our minds acquire and exploit them to achieve different outcomes—will help generate important scientific insights and exciting new technologies.

The COEDL seeks a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Melbourne to undertake research on children's language development in a minority language or languages, focusing on an Australian Indigenous language, as part of the Language Learning program.

The recently-funded ARC COEDL has an ambitious series of interlinked projects, focusing on language as a dynamic and variable system, and drawing on the full diversity of the world's languages. The Centre is strongly interdisciplinary and features researchers from linguistics, speech pathology, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, bioinformatics and robotics.

This position is open to international competition and primarily research-based, offering the possibility of substantial freedom of research within the broad ambit of the Centre and its programs. It comes with appropriate research setup and ongoing research support costs (e.g. fieldwork support for field-based positions), and offer some possibilities for limited teaching.

Close date: 29 Nov 2015

Indigenous Australians seeking support to apply for a vacancy are encouraged to contact the University by emailing their contact details and position number to Jeremy Togneri (jtogneri at unimelb.edu.au).

For position information and to apply online go to the application website below.

Application Deadline: 29-Nov-2015 

Web Address for Applications: http://go.unimelb.edu.au/2jja 
Contact Information:
	Professor Gillian Wigglesworth 
	Email: g.wigglesworth at unimelb.edu.au 
	Phone: +61 3 8344 4215 

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