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 Patrick Haggard FBA
Control of human voluntary action and sense of agency; somatosensation and bodily awareness: relations between neural information-processing and subjective experience
Professor Janet Watson FBA
The documentation and morpho-syntactic description of modern Arabic dialects and Modern South Arabian languages; theoretical phonology and morphology with reference to Arabic and Modern South Arabian
Professor Lucy Green FBA
The sociology of music education with particular reference to ideology, gender, informal learning, innovative pedagogy, and visually impaired musicians
