Call for aplications for a Predoctoral fellowship financed by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain) to work on a PhD project in the area of language/syntactic processing and bilingualism. This is a four year fellowship, starting in 2010, to work at the ELEBILAB Psycolinguistics laboratory (www.elebilab.com), Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies (Faculty of Arts, University of the Basque Country), within the Bilingual Mind research group directed by Prof. Itziar Laka. The PhD project involves research on age and/or proficiency effects in bilinguals, with special attention to Spanish/Basque or Spanish/Catalan bilingualism.
A background in linguistics or psycholinguistics is preferred though not required.
Knowledge of Spanish, Basque or Catalan is a plus, though not required.
In order to apply, go to this site:
www.micinn.es/becasfpi/
The name of the project you should be applying to is "Efectos paramétricos en el procesamiento sintáctico (Reference number FFI2009-09695)
If you experiece difficulties with the application, or have further questions, please write to edurne.petrirena@ehu.es for help and information.