Professor Anna Morpurgo Davies FBA
Linguistics
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1985
- Year of birth
- 1937
- Year of death
- 2014
- Honours
- Hon DBE, FBA
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
Current post
Diebold Professor Emeritus of Comparative Philology, University of Oxford
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor John Rickford FBA
Theoretical and descriptive aspects of variation and change in Caribbean Anglophone creoles and American vernaculars, especially African American English, and their implications for educational reform and criminal justice
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 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
