Student Hourly Research Assistant - NFRD

Developing, recording and editing audio and visual stimuli in Korean and English.

Training for human subjects research and piloting experiments with children.

Running participants, including traveling to Kansas City (travel will be reimbursed).

Coding speech perception and speech production experimental data.

Phonetic transcription and timestamp alignment of Korean and English audio recordings.

Formatting data for corpus compliance.

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Work Schedule

Approximately 10 - 20 hours per week; flexible

Contact Information to Applicants

Margarethe McDonald

Exposure to the Korean language since birth.

Experience with phonetic transcription, but this skill can be learned as part of the job.

During the semester term of the appointment, the student hourly must be enrolled in no fewer than 6 credit hours. For summer periods the student hourly must: 1) have been enrolled in no less than 6 hours in the past spring semester or 2) be pre-enrolled in upcoming fall semester in no less than 6 hours or 3) be enrolled in summer session or 4) be admitted to study in the upcoming fall semester. Student Hourlies may be undergraduate or graduate students. (Exceptions granted for GRA/GTA/GA appointments DO NOT apply to Student Hourly appointments).

Position Overview

The Speech in Little Bilinguals Lab is searching for a student hourly research assistant to work on a project related to the speech development of Korean-English bilingual children growing up in Kansas. The ideal candidate would continue to work in the lab for a full academic year. A start date of Summer 2024 is possible with the latest start date being the beginning of the Fall 2024 semester.

Additional Candidate Instruction

A complete online application is submitted.

Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Review of applications begins on June 20, 2024 and continues until position has been filled.

WORK SCHEDULE:

10 - 20 hours per week, hours can be flexible through the work week.

Anticipated start date is July 1, 2024.