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
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
Language learning and bilingualism over the lifespan; interfaces between language and cognition; gradience in natural language; public engagement with research
Middle Eastern and African Languages and Literatures
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