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Professor Calvert Watkins FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
1987
Year of birth
1933
Year of death
2013
Honours
FBA
Sections
Linguistics and Philology

Current post

Professor-in-residence, Classics and Indo-European, University of California at Los Angeles, and Victor S Thomas Professor of Linguistics and the Classics, Emeritus, Harvard University

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Jane Stuart-Smith FBA

Phonetics and phonology, sociolinguistics, sociophonetics; language variation and change, speech and social meaning, media influence on language change; English, especially Scottish English/Scots and British Asian

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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

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Professor Clive Holes FBA

Middle Eastern and African Languages and Literatures

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