Job description

The successful candidate will co-lead a project on sociogenomics (behavioral genetics) and language development. Among other things, the project seeks to understand the causes and consequences of individual differences in language learning in early childhood. This is done by applying concepts derived from the Familial Control Method (van Bergen et al., 2017; Hart, Little, van Bergen, 2021) and applied to a population of Dutch-acquiring (monolingual) children and respective family members. Specifically, a series of linguistic tasks and background questionnaires will be performed (online) by families spread across the country. Measures extracted from these tasks/questionnaires will allow us to model the association between vocabulary scores of parent(s) and child(ren), so to model intergenerational transmission. The project team are: Prof Caroline Rowland, Dr Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares (MPI for Psycholinguistics) and Dr Elsje van B...