Professor Bencie Woll FBA
Sign language as a model to understand human language generally: neuroimaging studies of commonalities in processing spoken & signed languages; the influence of modality of communication on language structure; sociolinguistics of Deaf communities.
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2012
- Subjects
- Education, Linguistics, Psychology
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology , Psychology , Education
Current post
Professor of Sign Language and Deaf Studies, University College London
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Simon Kirby FBA
The origins and evolution of language; the interactions between individual cognition, cultural transmission and biological evolution in human populations; art / science collaboration
Professor Susan Gathercole FBA
The cognitive mechanisms of memory and learning in typical children and adults, their impairments in developmental disorders of learning, and methods of remediation
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.
