<OT> Research position at MPI Nijmegen

[Mirjam Ernestus]

The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics is offering a
postdoctoral staff position in the field of language comprehension.
It is a research position and involves no teaching responsibilities;
furthermore, considerable technical support is available.  The
position will be available from the beginning of 2005 and has a term
of appointment of 3 to 5 years, depending on experience.

Research at the institute in the area of language comprehension is
centred on two main projects: "Decoding continuous speech" and
"Phonological learning for speech perception" (see recent Annual
Reports on the MPI website).  The research includes strong components
of cross-linguistic comparison and computational modelling.  Current
members of the group have primary research interests in infants'
development of language and word perception, and in adult processing
of spoken language in native and non-native languages. There is
research in progress on a variety of topics in phonetic perception,
the processing of suprasegmental structure, the recognition of word
forms and the segmentation of continuous speech.  The group currently
includes five scientists and seven students working towards a PhD
degree.

The position on offer has previously been held by Natasha Warner
(1998-2001) and Taehong Cho (from 2001), both of whom are phonologists
with an experimental, i.e. "laboratory phonology" research approach.
It is this kind of phonological expertise, combined with a willingness
to collaborate experimentally in projects on the perception of spoken
language, which we are seeking for this position. The previous
incumbents' expertise in non-Germanic languages was also very useful
to us.  Young scientists with a completed Ph.D. in a relevant field
are encouraged to apply.  An important criterion is a demonstrated
ability to publish research findings.  Applications should include a
c.v. and the names of two referees who would be willing to write
letters of recommendation; examples of published work and a cover
letter describing research interests would also be helpful.


Send applications to:

     Rian Zondervan (Secretary to Prof. Anne Cutler)
     Max-Planck-Institut fuer Psycholinguistik
     Postbus 310
     6500 AH Nijmegen
     The Netherlands

fax:      31-24-3521213
e-mail:   Rian.Zondervan @ MPI.NL
WWW: http://www.mpi.nl/world/groups/comprehe.html

Deadline for receipt of applications:  October 11, 2004