Professor Dan Sperber FBA
Cognition, communication and culture in an evolutionary perspective; anthropological fieldwork in Ethiopia, theoretical and experimental work in linguistic pragmatics and in cognitive psychology
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2008
- Subjects
- Linguistics, Psychology
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
- Website
- http://www.dan.sperber.fr/
Current post
Directeur de Recherche émérite au Centre National de la Recherché Scientifique, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris; Professor, Departments of Cognitive Science and of Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest
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.
