And we're live! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16459. come be my postdoc! these positions will be primarily supported by my NIH R01 on infant word learning, with a bit of wiggle for some other projects/new ideas/collabs.
Postdoctoral Fellow in Language Development Research
Dr. Elika Bergelson and the Bergelson Lab in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University invite applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Cognitive and Developmental Psychology, with a focus on...
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bergelsonlab@bergelsonlab.bsky.social · last mo.official ad to follow soon but heads up: 1-2 postdocs slots in my lab, hopefully w/fall start! reposts welcome, details to follow. babies! word learning! cognitive & linguistic skills! #CogSciSky #DevPsychSky 🐦🐦 (lab info: bergelsonlab.fas.harvard.edu/prospectives) also recruiting grads this fall!
![Graphical abstract on my research question: What is the nature of mental representations of phonological word forms in infants growing up with regiolectal input?
In the middle is a minimal figure of an infant with thought bubbles rising. In the thought bubble, there are two groups, the community and two caregivers with speech bubbles containing different word forms (of foot, standard and alemannic form), transcribed in IPA. The majority of the community in this graphs produces the dialectal form, only 1 produces the standard form, while both caregivers produce the standard.
Around the child (reaching to the right) there is a box labeled mental lexicon. In the childs head is a drawing of a discette as "save" symbol and dots in several colors: orange, blue and yellow. The speech bubbles above are also coded in these colors: orance the dialectal forms, blue the standard. On the right in the box there is a large brain with the picture of a foot on it, that symbols the named object by the wordforms used by the community and the caregivers. In the middle there are 3 rows explaining different hypothesis of mental representations: single storage (where either the caregivers standard form or the community's dialectal form is saved), double storage (where both forms are saved) and underspecified representation, where neither the community's nor the caregivers' form is saved like that, but rather something not specifying the vowel ([f_us], coded in yellow).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q34twatdujdqjqinkiwkaeo7/bafkreibvd43w4grw6hcmvymshdcqfpkey6ixphdg3fcywkrwcgbeclhzwq)