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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
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2020
Subjects
Linguistics, Psychology
Sections
Linguistics and Philology
Website
https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/antonella-sorace

10-Minute Talks: More than one language – why bilingualism matters

21 Apr 2021 Professor Antonella Sorace FBA

Antonella Sorace outlines how there are still misconceptions about multilingualism and how this contributes to a lack of language skills in countries.

Current post

University of Edinburgh Professor of Developmental Linguistics

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The human capacity for ostensive communication; its relation to linguistic competence and theory of mind; the semantics and pragmatics of word meaning; metaphorical and other non-literal uses of language

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History of English, especially syntax, including current change; modelling syntactic change; word classes and word class boundaries, gradience in syntax; corpus construction and problems of tagging

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Professor Elizabeth Traugott FBA

Historical linguistics; semantic change, cognitive and interactional pragmatics; theories of grammaticalisation and construction grammar

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