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Professor Martin Pickering FBA

The psychology of language, particularly language production, comprehension, dialogue, and bilingualism
Headshot of Professor Martin John Pickering FBA (credit Elizabeth Pickering)
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2023
Honours
FBA, FRSE
Sections
Linguistics and Philology , Psychology
Website
https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/martin-pickering

Current post

University of Edinburgh Professor of the Psychology of Language and Communication

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Professor Antonella Sorace FBA

Language learning and bilingualism over the lifespan; interfaces between language and cognition; gradience in natural language; public engagement with research

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Professor Eleanor Dickey FBA

Greek and Latin languages and literature; ancient scholarship; ancient bilingualism and second-language learning; politeness and forms of address in Latin and Greek; sociolinguistics of ancient languages

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Professor David Langslow FBA

Latin, Greek and Indo-European languages and their descriptive, historical and social linguistics; ancient special and technical varieties, especially as reflected in the translation and transmission of ancient medical texts

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