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[Fellowship] Call for Applications for Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cognitive Science of Language

Made possible by the Words in the World SSHRC Grant

Applications are solicited for a postdoctoral fellowship in the Cognitive Science of Language graduate program at McMaster University and the Department of Applied Linguistics at Brock University. The postdoctoral position is made open under the aegis of the Words in the World SSHRC partnership training grant and will also be supported by NSERC and other Canadian federal and provincial funding sources. The supervision will be conducted jointly by one of ARiEAL’s members, Dr. Victor Kuperman (McMaster) and Dr. Gary Libben (Brock).

The supervisory team is looking for a postdoctoral researcher who can make substantial contributions to one or both of the following research projects:

  1. Individual variability in visual and auditory processing of morphologically complex words, and
  2. Executive functions, serial fluency, and statistical learning as predictors of efficient reading comprehension.