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

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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Elena Lieven FBA

Children’s language development: the emergence and construction of grammar in typologically different languages; the relationship between input and the process of language development; variation in children’s communicative and linguistic environments.

Elena Lieven FBA

Professor Dr Bernd Heine FBA

Linguistics and African Studies

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Professor Mary Dalrymple FBA

Descriptive and theoretical syntax and semantics; language documentation; Austronesian and Papuan languages; grammatical analysis within the theory of Lexical Functional Grammar

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