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Professor Dell Hymes FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
1991
Year of birth
1927
Year of death
2009
Honours
FBA
Sections
Linguistics and Philology
Website
https://britac.ac.uk/audio/roger-scruton-why-philosophy-matters

Current post

Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and English, University of Virginia

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The origins and evolution of language; the interactions between individual cognition, cultural transmission and biological evolution in human populations; art / science collaboration

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Professor Monika Schmid FBA

The psycho- and neurolinguistics of bilingual development, in particular first and second language attrition, that is, the effect of non-use on the accessibility, deterioration and maintenance of linguistic knowledge

Monika Schmid FBA

Professor Paul Kerswill FBA

Sociolinguistics; English, Norwegian; language and migration; new dialects; multicultural youth language; language and social structure; sociolinguistics of West Africa; language, media and public dissemination

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