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>Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 11:55:10 +0200
>From: fs3a508@rzaixsrv2.rrz.uni-hamburg.de (Juergen M. Meisel)
>Subject: Bilingualism: Research Center & Jobs
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>A new research center will be established at the Univeristy of Hamburg.
>Please find below a short description of the Center and a job
>announcement for one of its research projects.
>
>Jurgen M. Meisel
>
>COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH CENTER ON MULTILINGUALISM
>(Sonderforschungsbereich Mehrsprachigkeit)
>
>University of Hamburg
>
>A research center for the study of multilingualism, funded by the 
>Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Science Foundation) has been 
>established at the University of Hamburg (Germany) as of July 1999. 
>The Center currently comprises 13 research projects investigating 
>linguistic aspects of bi- and multilingualism. The focus of this 
>research lies in microanalyses of oral and written communication 
>in multilingual settings and in language development in the bilingual
>individual. This work starts from the assumptions that human cognition
>predisposes the individual to become multilingual, that the knowledge 
>of more than one language increases communicative possibilities rather 
>than decreasing them, and that diachronic studies of multilingualism 
>can lead to a better under-standing of contemporary situations and to 
>solutions for emerging problems. In order to put these claims to the 
>test, cognitive as well as cultural studies have been designed by which 
>specific hypotheses, based on these assumptions, are examined empirically. 
>The multilingual settings studied include social as well as family 
>bilingualism, postcolonial situations as well as ones resulting from 
>labor migration, and also contexts where more than one language is 
>used in education or at the workplace, at home or during extended or 
>short-term stays in a foreign country. The languages studied include 
>Aymara, Basque, Danish, English, French, German, Greek, Guarani, 
>Italian, Japanese, Latin, Luganda, Lwo, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, 
>Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, and several diachronic and regional varieties 
>of some  of these. By comparing an array of linguistically, culturally, 
>and socially diverse settings, the aim is to identify more general as 
>well as situation-specific factors favoring multilingualism or rendering 
>it more difficult for the indvidual and for society.
>
>The 13 research projects carried out during the three year period 
>1999-2002 are listed below. The Center is organized into two groups. 
>Group A, entitled Oral and Written Texts and Types of Discourse in 
>Multilingual communication, investigates the production and comprehension 
>of multilingual language use in various social, cultural and institutional
>contexts, contemporary as well  as previous ones. Group B, The Development 
>of Multilingualism, is concerned with diachronic change as well as with the
>ontogenesis of multilingualism, investigating the simultaneous acquisition 
>of more than one first language and the successive acquisition of several
>languages, and contrasting both to monolingual first language development. 
>
>                 COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH CENTER ON MULTILINGUALISM
>                    (Sonderforschungsbereich Mehrsprachigkeit)
>
>
>			Chair: Prof.Dr. Jurgen M. Meisel
>					Universitat Hamburg
>					Romanisches Seminar
>					von Melle-Park 6
>					D-20146 Hamburg
>					jmm@rrz.uni-hamburg.de
>
>			Co-chair and coordinator of group A:
>					Prof.Dr. Jochen Rehbein
>					rehbein@rrz.uni-hamburg.de
>
>			Co-chair and coordinator of group B:
>					Prof.Dr. Conxita Lleo
>					lleo@rrz.uni-hamburg.de
>
>
>Group A: Oral and Written Texts and Types of Discourse in      
>         Multilingual Communication
>
>A1: Japanese and German expert discourse in mono- and multilingual settings
>        (Principal investigator: Jochen Rehbein)
>A2: Interpreting in the hospital
>	(PI: Kristin Buhrig)
>A3: Processing of spoken language in the process of interpreting
>	(PI: Walther von Hahn)
>A4: Covert translation
>	(PI: Juliane House)
>A5: Literacy practices in cross-cultural perspective
>	(PI: Mechthild Reh)
>A6: Semicommunication and receptive multilingualism in contemporary 
>        Scandinavia 
>        (PI: Kurt Braunmuller)
>A7: Disticha Catonis: Didactic forms of discourse between Latin 
>	and the vernacular 
>        (PI: Nikolaus Henkel)
>A8: Stylistic levels and diglossia in the modern Hellenic world 	
>        (PI: Hans Eideneier)
>
>
>Group B: The Development of Multilingualism
>
>B1: Multilingualism as cause and effect of language change: 
>        Historical syntax of Romance languages 
>        (PI: Jurgen M. Meisel)
>B2: Simultaneous and successive acquisition of bilingualism
>	(PI: Jurgen M. Meisel)
>B3: Prosodic constraints on phonological and morphological development 
>        in bilingual first language acquisition 
>	(PI: Conxita Lleo)
>B4: Bilingualism in early childhood: Comparing Italian/German and
>French/German 
>        (PI: Natascha Muller)
>B5: Linguistic connectivity in bilingual Turkish-German children 
>        (PI: Jochen Rehbein)
>
>
>JOB OPPORTUNITIES
>
>1 Post-doctoral researcher (full position)
>1 Post-graduate researcher (half position)
>
>in THE research project on "Simultaneous and Successive Acquisition of
>Bilingualism". This project will investigate similarities and differences 
>in grammatical development between bilingual first language acquisition,
>monolingual first language acquisition, and adult second language 
>acquisition. It is one of 13 projects of the Collaborative Research Center 
>on Multilingualism funded by the Deutsche Forschungsge-meinschaft (DFG, 
>German Research Foundation) to be established at the University of Hamburg 
>as of July 1st, 1999. 
>
>Pending final decision by the DFG, both positions will begin on this date
>and will extend for a period of three years. The post-doctoral candidate
>will be expected to co-direct this research group together with J.M.
>Meisel. The post-doctoral position can be renewed for one three-year
>period. The salary of the post-doctoral researcher corresponds to that of
>an assistant professor in German universities (BAT IIa). The post-graduate
>researcher must hold an M.A. (or equivalent). He or she will receive half
>of the BAT IIa salary for a work load of appr. 19 hours per week and will
>be expected to complete a doctoral dissertation on a topic related to the
>topic of the research project.
>
>Requirements sought are: good knowledge of syntactic theory (Principles and
>Parameters Theory and possibly of the Minimalist Program), experience with
>language acquisition research, and good knowledge of at least two of the
>following languages: German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Basque. Also
>desirable would be familiarity with speech processing research and/or
>experience with corpus analysis and/or com-puter skills.
>
>Send application (CV, list of publications, names of two referees) by June
>15, 1999 to Prof. J. M. Meisel, University of Hamburg, Romanisches Seminar,
>von Melle-Park 6, D 20146 Hamburg; for further inquiries contact
>jmm@rrz.uni-hamburg.de
>
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>  Juergen M. Meisel                 jmm@rrz.uni-hamburg.de
> Universitaet Hamburg               Tel (+49-40) 428 38-4793
>  Romanisches Seminar               Fax (+49-40) 428 38-4147
>   von Melle-Park 6                  = NEW PHONE NUMBER!
>   D 20146 Hamburg                   
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>
Lise Menn
Professor and Chair
Linguistics Department - Box 295
University of Colorado
Boulder CO 80309-0295
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