The department of Cognitive Linguistics at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, invites applications for a postdoc job position in German linguistics at the level of a research fellow, commencing April 1, 2009, at the earliest. The appointment period is three years. The appointment is renewable. The general restrictions of the German ‘Wissenschaftszeitv ertragsgesetz’ and ‘Hessisches Hochschulgesetz’ apply.

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A two-year research and teaching appointment in Sociolinguistics from October 2009 for an outstanding academic at an early stage of his or her career.

These fellowships are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of a wider Oxford University initiative which is designed: to provide an intensive and supported career development opportunity for outstanding academics at an early stage of their career; and to promote equality of opportunity by helping to create a more diverse pool of potential candidates for future academic posts at Oxford.

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The Ph.D. researcher will collaborate with Dr. Paul Vogt on the project ‘Cultural and social aspects of multimodal interaction in language acquisition (CASA MILA)’. This project is concerned with the relation between joint attentional usage and infants’ first language acquisition. The project consists of roughly two phases:

1. The collection of quantitative data on joint attention and multimodal interactions between caregivers and infants (9-24 months old) during field trips to Mozambique and the Netherlands.
2. The incorporation of these data in computer simulations on language evolution.

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Funded by the government, Academia Sinica (http://www.sinica.edu.tw/main_e.shtml) is the most prominent research institution in Taiwan. In 2002, in collaboration with a consortium of prominent local research universities, Academia Sinica established the Taiwan International Graduate Program (TIGP) that offers the following 9 highly specialized interdisciplinary PhD programs and a generous funding, a grant of NT$32,000 (US$1050) per month, to each student for up to 3 years.

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