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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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Professor Terttu Nevalainen FBA

The history of the English language, particularly of the Early Modern English period; historical sociolinguistics; language variation and change; corpus linguistics; design and compilation of digital text corpora

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Professor Graham Furniss FBA

Oral and written literatures of Africa; orality, performance and genre in the popular cultures of West Africa with particular reference to Hausa-speaking regions of Nigeria and Niger

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Professor Dr Bernd Heine FBA

Linguistics and African Studies

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