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The SESQUIPEDALIAN WEEKLY HERALD Volume IV, Number 22
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April 1, 1994
-\-\-\ THE VERY BEST OF CONGRATULATIONS TO.../-/-/-
...Henriette de Swart. Henriette has accepted the offer to join our
Department as an Assistant Professor. Because of her current KNAW
Research Fellowship the actual appointment will be delayed until
9/1/95. However, Henriette will be in residence at Stanford winter
and possibly spring quarters of 94-95 and will teach 230A in winter
quarter and a topics seminar in either winter or spring.
...Chris Manning. Chris has been offered and has accepted a position
as Assistant Professor in the Computational Linguistics Program within
the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie-Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA. This is a tenure-track position beginning in Fall '94.
...Dawn Hannah. Dawn has been awarded a prestigious NSF Minority
Doctoral Fellowship beginning in Fall 1994. The faculty and
administrative staff are all delighted, not only for the recognition
of Dawn's promise and potential as a scholar which this award
constitutes, but also for the funding opportunities which it opens up
for other students in the department.
...Nat Pearson. Nat has received a grant from the Anthropology
department. It is an undergraduate field research grant for this
summer, and he will be going to either Chile or Bolivia to look at
possible links between altitude and phonological evolution. Aymara
will be the study language.
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-\-\-\ ACQUISITION OF FISHMAN ARCHIVES /-/-/-
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Joshua A. Fishman and Gella Schweid Fishman Family Archive. The Fishman Archive
is unique in several ways. It is interdisciplinary, international,
multilingual, and intergenerational. It contains important materials for
researchers in the field of Linguistics, Sociology, Psychology, History,
Medical Anthropology, Education, Ethnicity, Nationalism, Bilingualism and
Multiculturalism, Jewish Studies, Women's Studies - and more.
The Fishman Archive is housed in the Department of Special Collections in the
Stanford University Libraries and is available for use by qualified
researchers. For more information contact Margaret Kimball, Head of Special
Collections (415-725-1161).
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-\-\-\ LOOK WHO'S TALKING /-/-/-
Noam Chomsky will deliver the annual Robert Wesson Lecture in Problems
of Democracy at 3.15 pm next Wed (April 6) in Dinkelspiel Auditorium.
And, as a prelude to that, a video copy of "Manufacturing Consent,"
the documentary about Chomsky that was screened throught the US last
year, will be shown on the big-screen TV in the Kimball Hall Lounge at
7 pm next Tuesday (April 5). Admission is free and you are all
welcome. Kimball Hall is on Escondido Road, about one hundred yards
>From the intersection with Campus Drive (assuming you're on Escondido
Road, heading towards Meyer library).
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-\-\-\ LINGUISTICS CONFERENCES /-/-/-
The 26th annual Child Language Research Forum
will take place on April 15-17, 1994 at Stanford.
The program is as follows:
1994 Annual CHILD LANGUAGE RESEARCH FORUM
Jordan Hall Auditorium
Psychology Department, Bldg 420
Stanford University
15-17 April 1994
Friday, 15 April:
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7.20 pm - Opening remarks
7.30-9.30 pm
Panel "Does input constrain word-learning principles?"
Organizer: Terry K.-F. Au
Edith Bavin (La Trobe University, Australia) "Cross-linguistic
studies of word meaning"
Melissa Bowerman (MPI for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands)
"Constructing spatial categories in Korean, Dutch, and English:
How are learners influenced by the adult semantic system?"
Mirella Dapretto, Terry K.-F. Au, & You-Kyung Song (UCLA)
"Does input constrain word-learning constraints? Early word
acquisition in Korean and English"
Mutsumi Imai (Keio University, Japan) & Dedre Gentner (Northwestern
University) "The linguistic input and projection of noun
meanings"
Dedre Gentner & Melissa Bowerman "Learning lexical categories
for spatial relations: The acquisition of on-terms for Dutch
and English"
9.30 pm - Reception (4th floor Lounge, Jordan Hall)
Saturday, 16 April:
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8.30-10.00 am - Papers
Paul Bloom & Deborah Kelemen (University of Arizona) "Syntactic
and conceptual factors in the acquisition of collective nouns"
Tracy C. Burns & Nancy N. Soja (Northeastern University) "The
case of NP-type nouns: Support for semantic theories of acquisition"
Kaveri Subrahmanyam (UCLA) & Barbara Landau (UCIrvine) "Modulation
of object perception by count and mass noun syntax"
10.30-12.30 pm - Papers
Yasmine L. Ziesler & Katherine Demuth (Brown University) "Inflec-
tional morphology in child-directed speech: Implications for the
acquisition of Sesotho noun class prefixes"
Anjum P. Saleemi (National University of Singapore) "On the
acquisition of split ergativity"
Cynthia Fisher (University of Illinois) "Who's the subject? The
meaning of structure in preschoolers' interpretations of novel verbs"
Clifton Pye (University of Kansas) "When do children acquire verbs?"
1.15-2.30 pm - Posters
Isabella Barbier (Cornell University) "The acquisition of 'verb raising'
in Dutch: Embedded clauses with finite verbs in non-final position"
Jennifer DeWitt (UCLA) "How a word-learning principle might interact
with metalinguistic knowledge and input: Bilingual preschoolers' use
of the mutual exclusivity assumption"
Dedre Gentner (Northwestern University) & Mutsumi Imai (Keio University)
"A further examination of the shape bias in early word learning"
Harriet Jisa & Sophie Kern (University of Lyon) "Discourse organisation
in French children's narratives"
Sharon Levinsky & LouAnn Gerken (SUNY Buffalo) "Young children's
sensitivity to focal stress as a marker of new information"
AslI Ozyurek (University of Chicago) "How children talk about
a conversation"
Lisa Riche, Jeffrey G. Bettger, & Ursula Bellugi (The Salk Institute)
"Acquisition of the referential system in American Sign Language by
deaf children"
Chris Schmidt (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) "Interpreting
attention-getting gestures"
Twila Tardif (University of Michigan) "Nouns are not always learned
before verbs, but why? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese"
Richard M. Weist (SUNY College, Fredonia), Paula Lyytinen (University
of Jyvaskyla), & Jolanta Wysocka (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan)
"Whorfian reflections in development"
Fei Xu, Susan Carey, Kyra Raphaelidis, & Anastasia Ginzbursky (MIT)
"Twelve-month-olds have the conceptual resources to support the
acquisition of count nouns"
2.30-4.00 pm - Papers
Kimary N. Shahin (University of British Columbia) "Child
language evidence on Palestinian Arabic phonology"
Paul Cairns, Richard Shillcock, Nick Chater, & Joe Levy
(University of Edinburgh) "Modelling the acquisition of lexical
segmentation"
Adamantios I. Gafos & Michael Brent (The Johns Hopkins University)
"Learning syllable structure without word boundaries"
4.30-6.30
Panel "Setting the stage for language acquisition: Experimental
influences on infant speech perception"
Organizer: Janet Werker
Josiane Bertoncini (CNRS, Paris) "Neonates' universal
capacities to represent multisyllabic utterances"
Anne Fernald & Gerald McRoberts (Stanford University)
"Learning what to listen for in speech"
Janet F. Werker (University of British Columbia), organizer
"Perceiving and using natve language phonetic information"
LouAnn Gerken (SUNY Buffalo), Discussant
Sunday, 17 April:
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8.30-10.30 am
Panel: "Pronoun case errors: New approaches to an old phenomenon"
Organizer: Matthew Rispoli
Matthew Rispoli (Northern Arizona University) "Paradigms and
pronoun case errors"
Anne Vainikka (University of Pennsylvania) "Case in the
development of English syntax"
Diane Frome-Loeb (University of Kansas) "Pronoun case errors
of children with and without specific language impairment:
Evidence from a longitudinal elicited imitation task"
Nancy Budwig (Clark University) "An examination of case marking
from a functionalist perspective"
Clifton Pye (University of Kansas), Discussant
11.00-1.00 pm - Papers
Michele Shady & LouAnn Gerken (SUNY Buffalo) "The role of
prosody in early sentence comprehension: Attention or segmentation?"
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek (Temple University), Roberta M. Golinkoff,
Gabriella Hermon (University of Delaware), & Dede Kaufman
(Temple University) "Evidence from comprehension for early
knowledge about pronouns"
T. John Rosen & Sara Thomas Rosen (University of Kansas)
"Inferring the innateness of syntactic knowledge"
William Snyder (MIT), Nina Hyams (UCLA), & Paola Crisma
(University of Venice) "Romance auxiliary selection with reflexive
clitics: Evidence for early knowledge of unaccusativity"
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BOOK DISPLAY -
Saturday 16 April 10.00 am - 4.00 pm
Sunday 17 April 10.00 am - 12 noon
INFANCY LAB TOURS - Saturday 16 April
Sign-up sheets for those interested in touring Anne Fernald's
Infancy Lab will be available at the Registration Desk on
Friday night and early Saturday morning
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REGISTRATION (fee includes program booklet) at the conference:
__ student ($15.00)
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Checks should be made payable to CLRF.
If you will not be attending the forum, but would like to receive the
program booklet including abstracts and resumes, please check below
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__ I will not be at the Forum. Enclosed is $4.00 for a program
booklet.
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CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE, DISCOURSE and LANGUAGE
CONFERENCE
November 11-13, 1994
University of California, San Diego
We will be hosting a conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse and
Language here at UCSD November 11-13, 1994. The Organizing Committee
welcomes abstracts for papers on conceptual structure, discourse,
metaphor, lexical semantics, pragmatics, theoretical foundations,
grammaticalization, constructions, psycholinguistics, computation,
and acquisition.
Abstract submissions should include:
Seven (7) copies of a ONE-page abstract of the paper,
in 12 point font or type, with a title.
Specify in the upper right hand corner of the abstract, one or two
primary topics (from the list in the paragraph above). If none
of the topics applies, please specify "other", and provide
a different suggested category.
OMIT name and affiliation.
A 3" by 5" card with the title of the paper and the name(s) of the
author(s), address and e-mail address.
The Abstract DEADLINE is JUNE 10, 1994.
PREREGISTRATION: Please send name, e-mail address, and affiliation on
a 3" by 5" card, with a check (payable to CSDL) postmarked no
later than Sept 30, 1994:
$10 student (walk-in registration $15)
$20 non-student (walk-in registration $30)
Send abstracts and/or preregistration to:
CSDL
Department of Linguistics 0108
9500 Gilman Drive
UCSD
La Jolla, CA 92093
E-mail correspondence: csdl@bend.ucsd.edu
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Istituto Dalle Molle IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland
1994 Summer Programme for Graduate Students
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The IDSIA Summer Programme for graduate students, initiated in 1991,
exists to promote intellectual and cultural contact between IDSIA and
other research institutions in Switzerland and abroad. Well-qualified
graduate students visit the institute for a period of three months
(ideally June-August) during which they undertake some agreed upon
project-related activity. In return for this they receive a modest
salary that is sufficient to cover living expenses, travel and
accommodation.
IDSIA is a small (c. 12 people) government-funded AI research
institute situated in Lugano, a lakeside city in the Italian-speaking
canton of Ticino, well known for its warm climate and outstanding
scenery. The institute is well equipped and is currently involved in
the following areas of research:
1. AI & Medicine: Development of tools to assist with medical
research, particularly in the domain of cancer. Application of AI
techniques and statistical methods to the problem of analysing large
quantitites of medical data.
2. AI teaching environments: enhancements to the Portable AI Lab, an
integrated environment of AI tools and techniques in a wide variety of
application domains. Projects include design, implementation and
integration of new modules (classifier systems, neural networks,
search and planning); user interface; help subsystem; bibliographic
information subsystem.
3. Robotics: integration of learning mechanisms and robot motion
planning with a strong emphasis on the application of the results in a
real environment. Research is based on a general motion planner based
on an artificial potential field.
4. Constraint-satisfaction: development of techniques to solve
problems in the domain of planning and scheduling scarce resouces. The
current project involves the assignment of personnel to shifts whilst
respecting domain-specific constraints.
5. Computational linguistics: development of techniques for defining
and enforcing the use of artificially restricted forms of natural
languages that are designed with criteria such as ease of translation
in mind.
6. Financial applications: development of AI techniques (eg case based
reasoning, generic tasks, constraint satisfaction, data mining) to
problems of fund managament.
To apply, interested candidates should send, by email, a curriculum
vitae including names of two referees, and indications concerning
availability during the Summer months, and in which of the above
projects the candidate has most interest.
Michael Rosner, IDSIA, Corso Elvezia 36, 6900 Lugano, mike@idsia.ch,
tel. +4191 22 88 81, fax +4191 23 89 94
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-\-\-\ LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM /-/-/-
There will be no colloqiuum Friday, April 1 (this afternoon).
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Special Linguistics Talk
Nonconfigurationality
Shigeru Miyagawa, MIT
Thursday April 14, 5.15pm
Ventura 17
In the 1970's, Ken Hale and others proposed that flexible-word order
languages such as Japanese have a nonconfigurational structure.
However, Saito and Hoji and others showed that Japanese phrase
structure is configurational, using now-familiar arguments such as
weak crossover. This paper argues that the intuition behind Hale's
proposal is essentially correct, and it is possible to capture it
within a configurational structure. The nonconfigurational property
is located in the way Case features are checked: in languagess such as
Japanese, accusative Case may be checked in the Spec of AGRoP, which
gives the SOV order, or in the IP-adjoined (scrambled) position, which
results in the OSV order.
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-\-\-\ JOB OPENINGS /-/-/-
SUMMER TEACHING FOR LINGUISTICS GRADUATE STUDENTS:
The English for Foreign Students Program at Stanford has a number of
anticipated openings this year which qualified students in Linguistics
and other appropriate fields are encouraged to apply for.
Except as indicated, these are in the Linguistics 688/689 courses for
incoming foreign graduate students. This program lasts from July 1 to
August 14, 1994. Information about the program is available from
Cristy Juencke in 380-381A.
GRADUATE STUDENT POSITIONS
1. Academic Orientation TA (8 week 20% TA appointment). Work with the writing
instructor in humanities and social science sections on writing and
orientation to graduate study. 2-hour section plus student meetings/week.
2. Pronunciation TA (8 week 20% TA appointment). Assist the pronunciation
instructor in class and meet individually with students.
3. Japan and US Cross Cultural Communication TF (6 week 20% TF appointment)
Lead a 2-hour/week course in cross-cultural communication. Native speaker or
fluent in Japanese with substantial experience in both cultures. ESL or
Japanese language teaching experience preferred.
4. Working with Computers TF (6 week 40% TF appointment) Lead two sections of
a course (2-hours/section/week) familiarizing students with Mac application
programs. Knowledge of both Mac software (word processing, spreadsheet,
database, graphics, communication) and hardware (running a networked lab)
necessary. Some knowledge of Unix, DOS and Windows is helpful.
5. Spoken English Instructor (TF or Acting Instructor, possibility of various
openings) Teach courses in listening, discussion, spoken usage or oral
presentation. Native-level proficiency required. Must have academic ESL
training and/or advanced-level teaching experience.
GRADUATE OR UNDERGRADUATE POSITIONS
1. Program Assistant (all EFS programs): Help with office work and other
support duties as needed. 8 or more hours/week, May-September. $8.50/hour
2. Teacher's Aide: Serve as language and culture informant in spoken language
classes. Native speaker of English with strong oral communication skills and
an interest in communicating with international students. Language teaching
or tutoring experience a plus. 7 hours/week. $9.00/hour
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To apply or to find out more about any of these positions, contact Phil
Hubbard (Phil@CSLI; 725-1557) by April 11.
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POSITION IN SEMANTICS
UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
The Department of Linguistics at the State University of New York at Buffalo
has a one-year temporary position open for 1994-95, pending final budgetary
approval. We are seeking a person with a primary specialization in Semantics
and a strong secondary specialization in another area of linguistics. He/she
will be expected to teach introductory and advanced courses at the
undergraduate and graduate levels.
Initial applicatrion can be made by e-mail or letter (fax); please send
application letter, CV and names of three references (including e-mail and
phone numbers) to Robert Van Valin (linvan@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu), Chair, Dept.
of Linguistics, 685 Baldy Hall, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo NY 14260 (phone:
716-645-2177; fax 716-645-3825). Additional materials will be requested as
needed. Consideration of applications will begin April 15, 1994 and
applications will continue to be accepted until the position is filled. AA/EOE.
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE LECTURERS
NAGOYA UNIVERSITY OF COMMERCE AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
We are currently looking for English Language lecturers beginning in April
1995; area of specialization TEFL/ESL/TOEFL/LINGUISTICS. University/College
teaching experience required. Lecturer, Associate Professor or Professor as
appropriate. Salary level: 7 to 9 million Yen per annum, return air-fare and
car loan. Position would commence in April 1995 for a two year contract.
Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Administration and Koroyo
International College are located on the outskirts of Nagoya which, situated
in the center of the country, is the main industrial and fourth biggest city
in Japan.
For further information, please contact:
Karen Downie
Executive Assistant to the President
Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Administration
Sagamine, Nisshin-cho
Aichi-gun, Aichi-ken
Japan 470-01
Tel no: (05617) 3-3002
Fax no: (05617) 3-1202
e-mail: elsom@jpnnucba.bitnet
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-\-\-\ CALL FOR PAPERS /-/-/-
Functionalism/Formalism
23rd Annual UWM Linguistics Symposium
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, April 6-8, 1995
Featured Speakers [pending funding]:
Werner Abraham, Stephen Anderson, Joan Bybee, Alice Davison,
John DuBois, Talmy Givsn, Kenneth Hale, Michael Hammond,
Martin Haspelmath, Bruce Hayes, Howard Lasnik, Alec Marantz,
Edith Moravcsik, Geoffrey Nathan, Michael Noonan,
Frederick Newmeyer (co-organizer), Doris Payne, David Pesetsky,
Janet Pierrehumbert
We are seeking papers that:
- speak to the relationship between linguistic
functionalism and formalism; or
- highlight the advantages or drawbacks of some
functional or formal approach; or
- provide analyses of the same data from multiple
perspectives; or
- explore the basic assumptions about language and
cognition that underlie the two approaches; or
- trace the history of one or both approaches; or
- offer general discussions of the formalist-
functionalist dichotomy and its implications; or
- otherwise throw light on the similarities and
differences between the two approaches and their
assessment.
Papers will be 20 minutes long, with a 10 minute discussion period to
follow. Please send 8 copies of an anonymous abstract and a 3x5 card
containing the title of the paper and your name, affiliation, and address.
The abstract may be up to one typed page, with figures and references allowed
on a second page. Since we need a camera-ready copy for reproduction in
the meeting handbook if accepted, we prefer regular mail over email or fax.
A selection of the conference papers, supplemented with some
invited contributions, will be published by John Benjamins in a set of
volumes edited by Michael Darnell, Edith Moravcsik, Frederick Newmeyer,
and Michael Noonan.
Send your abstract to:
'95 UWM Symposium Committee
Department of Linguistics
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413
USA
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1, 1994
For further information:
Email: Edith Moravcsik (edith@convex.csd.uwm.edu) or
Michael Noonan (noonan@convex.csd.uwm.edu).
Phone: Noonan at (414) 220-4539, Moravcsik at (414) 229-6794, or
leave messages at (414) 229-4285.
Fax: (414) 229-6258.
Snailmail: write to Noonan or Moravcsik at the postal address
above.
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-\-\-\ FELLOWSHIPS/ASSISTANTSHIPS /-/-/-
CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN LANGUAGE
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Applications are invited for postdoctoral fellowships in Language,
Communication and Brain at the Center for Research in Language at the
University of California, San Diego. The fellowships are supported by
the National Institutes of Health (NIDCD), and provide an annual
stipend ranging from $19,608 to $32,300 depending upon years of
postdoctoral experience. In addition, some funding is provided for
medical insurance and travel.
The program provides interdisciplinary training in:
(1) psycholinguistics, including language processing
in adults and language development in children;
(2) communication disorders, including childhood
language disorders and adult aphasia;
(3) electrophysiological studies of language, and
(4) neural network models of language learning and processing.
Candidates are expected to work in at least one of these four areas.
Grant conditions require that candidates be citizens or permanent
residents of the U.S.
Applicants should send a statement of interest, three letters of
recommendation,
a curriculum vitae and copies of relevant publications to:
Jan Corte
Center for Research in Language 0526
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, California 92093-0526
(619) 534-2536
Women and minority candidates are specifically invited to apply.
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CENTER FOR SCIENCES OF LANGUAGE
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
The Center for Sciences of Language at the University of Rochester
anticipates having one and possibly two NIH-funded post-doctoral
fellowships available for the 1994-95 academic year. If two
positions are available, preference for one of the positions will be
given to candidates who already have the Ph.D. and can begin before
July 1, 1994. The appointment will be for one year with the
possibility of renewal for a second year. The Center brings
together faculty and students with interests in spoken and signed
languages from the departments of Linguistics, Computer Science,
Psychology, and Philosophy; and the interdisciplinary programs in
Cognitive Science and Neuroscience. We encourage applicants from
any of these disciplines who have expertise in any area of natural
language. We are particularly interested in post-doctoral fellows
who want to contribute to an interdisciplinary community.
Applications should be sent to Michael K. Tanenhaus, University of
Rochester, Department of Psychology, Meliora Hall, Rochester, NY
14627. Include a vita, sample reprints and/or pre-prints, a
statement of research and training interests, and arrange for
letters of reference from at least three referees. In order to
guarantee full consideration, applications should be received by
April 1. The University of Rochester is an equal opportunity
employer. We encourage applications from women and from minorities.
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DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
I am writing to inform you that we have two post-doctoral positions
available in our lab. The positions could begin anytime from now on,
and last up to two and possibly three years.
We are looking for someone who could fit either of our research areas,
very broadly defined: memory, math modeling, implicit memory,
psycholinguistics (text processing, inference, syntax, prosody),
connectionist modeling, virtual reality and memory representation,
reaction time, etc. Our general expectation is that the person would
work on collaborative research with one or both of us at least 50 % of
their time and on their own research the rest of the time. We prefer
for them to begin with new collaborative projects in the first year,
phasing in independent projects in the second and subsequent years.
Our aim is to expose them to a range of issues and research domains so
they will have broader interests and expertise when they move to a
tenure track job. We have had a good record of placing post docs (OK,
OK, they were able to place themselves well) and we expect future post
docs will be very competitive in the job market.
Our lab is easy to use and efficient. Modeling and programming of all
sorts is done on a variety of workstations. Real-time data is collected
on an extremely user-friendly system connected to the workstations.
Other post docs have found that they were proficient with the system in
a week. Subjects are available from introductory psychology
courses or from a paid subject pool.
For psycholinguistic work, we have a large corpus of text and software
with which to search it. Collaborations with Beth Levin in Linguistics
would be an attractive possibility.
The city of Evanston provides a lot of attractions. It is a pleasant
older suburb with abundant parks, beaches, sports such as bicycling,
sailing, and swimming, lakeside concerts and fairs, and so on, and
everything is within five to ten minutes of the university. Although
the winters are cold, O'Hare is only 45 minutes away. Chicago is 20
minutes away with interesting areas in which to live, restaurants,
entertainment, etc. and can provide a wide range of opportunities for
spouse employment if that is an issue.
Please encourage anyone who might be interested to contact us either
with an application by mail or a phone call or email for additional
information (Ratcliff: (708) 491 7702, roger@eccles.psych.nwu.edu,
McKoon: (708) 491-7701), gail@thynne.psych.nwu.edu.
Sincerely
Roger Ratcliff, Professor of Psychology
Gail McKoon, Professor of Psychology
Dept. of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60201
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