31.2502, Jobs: Language Acquisition: Manager, ZAS

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Subject: 31.2502, Jobs: Language Acquisition: Manager, ZAS

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Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2020 15:57:00
From: Uli Sauerland [sauerland at leibniz-zas.de]
Subject: Language Acquisition: Manager, ZAS, Berlin, Germany

 
University or Organization: ZAS 
Department: Semantics-Pragmatics
Job Location: Berlin, Germany 
Web Address: https://www.leibniz-zas.de/
Job Title: Two-year Lab-Manager in ERC Project LeibnizDream
Job Rank: Manager

Specialty Areas: Language Acquisition 


Description:

The Leibniz-Center General Linguistics (ZAS, www.leibniz-zas.de) invites
applications for a two-year full-time position in the ERC research project
LeibnizDream (www.leibnizdream.eu), PIs Sauerland, Alexiadou, and Guasti
starting January 1st, 2021 or soon thereafter. The regulations of German
limited term contract law apply. For applicants who haven't worked at ZAS
before the contract would be for 24 months.  Pay is at the E9 level of the
German TVöD payscale. Applications for less than full-time hours will be
considered.

Requirements:
- Strong expertise in language acquisition research and statistics
- Native or near-native German and English
- M.A. or Ph.D. degree in a relevant field

Desired Assets:
- Linguistic theory
- Software skills such as Excel, Photoshop, LaTeX, and Keynote
- Statistics with R and STAN
- Git, GitHub, and open science
- Interpersonal, organizational and leadership skills
- Data privacy regulations, research ethics, German daycare system
- Drivers licence for Germany

Duties:
You execute a series of language acquisition studies on German within a larger
research team including the PIs and several postdocs. You supervise several
student research assistants. We target six different areas of
morpho-syntax/semantics, 1) the expression of causation and agency, and 2) of
motion events, 3) the binary connectives, 4) negative concepts such as
exclusion, antonyms, and negation, 5) quantificational concepts including
genericity and distributivity, and 6) dependencies most frequently analyzed as
variable binding (wh-questions, relative clauses, degree clauses). 

The project aims for cultural diversity and gender balance of its staff. The
project furthermore seeks to implement the principles of open science. ZAS is
an equal opportunity employer.

Applications must be submitted via electronic mail and include the following
four items (1, 2 and 3 in PDF format):
1) A letter of intent specifying research experience and plans;
2) The curriculum vitae;
3) Electronic copies of up to two recent work samples; and
4) The names and email addresses of at least two scholars to be contacted for
letters of recommendation. Interested researchers wishing for secure
communication with PGP can contact us for the necessary encryption key



Application Deadline: 06-Sep-2020 
	  
Email Address for Applications: leibnizdream at leibniz-zas.de 
Contact Information:
	Project LeibnizDream 
	Email: leibnizdream at leibniz-zas.de 


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