LINGUIST List 9.1196

Fri Aug 28 1998

Jobs: Studentships: Clinical Ling, Phonology

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Message 1: Research Studentship

Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 17:55:07 +0100
From: Mick Perkins <M.Perkinssheffield.ac.uk>
Subject: Research Studentship

STUDENTSHIP TO INVESTIGATE THE CAUSES OF LANGUAGE-RELATED DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS

Details are given below of a fully funded 3 year postgraduate research Studentship to be held in the Department of Human Communication Sciences in the University of Sheffield.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This announcement supersedes an earlier one circulated in July for 2 related studentships. The first of these was to examine the specific speech, language and discourse impairments which occur in children with specific language impairments and in children with high functioning autism, and the second to examine the same impairments that occur in children with Williams syndrome. This second studentship will now be based at the University of Warwick, and a separate advertisement will be circulated in due course. The advertisement below is for the first studentship only, which is based at the University of Sheffield. In spite of being located in two different universities, each of the two studentships will form part of a single integrated research project supervised by Prof. Jill Boucher at Warwick, and by Dr Mick Perkins and Dr Sara Howard at Sheffield.

If you have already applied for the first studentship, we have your application and you do not need to apply again, but if you would like to confirm your continued interest, please do so.

THE PROJECT TO WHICH THE STUDENTSHIP WILL CONTRIBUTE

The overall aim of project is to assess the hypotheses (1) that the specific speech, language and discourse impairments which occur in children with specific language impairments and in children with high functioning autism are caused at least in part by deficits in those biopsychological time processing abilities which subserve the normal acquisition and function of spoken language; and (2) that the relatively spared speech, language, and discourse abilities of children with Williams syndrome are related to a sparing of these biopsychological time processing abilities.

The student who is awarded the studentship at Sheffield will have a degree which includes Linguistics, and will test the hypotheses by investigating the role of time processing mechanisms in the production of spoken language and conversational interaction. A detailed practical knowledge of phonetics and phonology is definitely an asset, though ideally we would also like someone familiar with the whole range of linguistic performance from phonetics to pragmatics. We realise that this is a tall order, however, and we will provide training for the successful candidate to supplement whatever analytic linguistic skills they already have. Data analysis will require the careful transcription of spontaneous speech supplemented by use of speech instrumentation such as electropalatography. The applicant should have good computer skills or at least the motivation and aptitude to develop such skills.

The student will be supervised by Dr Mick Perkins, a linguist specialising in the analysis of disordered language, and by Dr Sara Howard, a phonetician/phonologist and speech/language pathologist. The linked studentship at the University of Warwick will be supervised by Professor Jill Boucher, a developmental psychologist and speech/language pathologist.

For other details, see LINGUIST 9.1095

CONTACT DETAILS

For further information about this Studentship, and an application form, please contact:

Dr Sara Howard Tel. no. 0114-222-2448 <s.howardsheffield.ac.uk>

or Dr Mick Perkins, Tel. no. 0114-222-2408 <m.perkinssheffield.ac.uk >

Department of Human Communication Sciences University of Sheffield Sheffield S10 2TN UK

_____________________________________________________________ Dr Mick Perkins

Senior Lecturer in Clinical Linguistics Department of Human Communication Sciences University of Sheffield 18/20 Claremont Crescent Sheffield S10 2TA UK

Phone: (+44) (0)114 2222408/2222400 Fax: (+44) (0)114 2730547 http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/R-Z/spsu/staff/mick.html

Message 2: PH.D. TRAINEE--THEORETICAL PHONOLOGY

Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 13:27:00 +0200
From: UiL-OTS <UiL-OTSlet.uu.nl>
Subject: PH.D. TRAINEE--THEORETICAL PHONOLOGY

PH.D. TRAINEE POSITION IN THEORETICAL PHONOLOGY

The Zentrum fr Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung in Berlin, Germany, and the Research Institute of Language and Speech of Utrecht University, the Netherlands, have available a jointly funded 3-year Ph.D. trainee position (with the possibility of a 1-year extension) in THEORETICAL PHONOLOGY, starting 1 Januari 1999.

Applicants should fulfil the following requirements: - an internationally recognized M.A. or similar degree - sophistication in Generative Theoretical Phonology. - a strong background in Phonetics is recommended - a willingness to be alternately affiliated to the Z.A.S. in Berlin and Utrecht

Funding sources allow non-Dutch applicants only. The monthly fee will be appr. US$ 900.

The Ph.D. degree will be taken at Utrecht University, under the joint supervision of Dr. T.A. Hall (Berlin) and prof. Wim Zonneveld (Utrecht).

Before 26 September, send 3 copies of a CV and a 5-page project proposal and dissertation plan to the following addresses each:

Dr. T.A. Hall Zentrum fr Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Jgerstrasse 10-11 10117 Berlin, Germany e-mail: hallzas.gwz-berlin.de

Prof. Wim Zonneveld Research Institute for Language and Speech Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, the Netherlands e-mail: wim.zonneveldlet.uu.nl

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