Professor Devyani Sharma FBA
Social and cognitive basis of language variation and change; new dialects of English; sociolinguistics, bilingualism, typology; accent variation and social perception
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2023
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
Current post
Queen Mary University of London Professor, Department of Linguistics
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Monika Schmid FBA
The psycho- and neurolinguistics of bilingual development, in particular first and second language attrition, that is, the effect of non-use on the accessibility, deterioration and maintenance of linguistic knowledge
Professor Robert Ladd FBA
Phonology and phonetics, and the relation between them ("laboratory phonology"); intonation and prosody, including focus, emotion, pitch perception, tone languages, and links between language and music
Professor Paul Kiparsky FBA
Phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, metrics, and the Sanskrit grammatical tradition. The relation between word structure and sentence structure, and the principles governing language change.
