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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 psychology of language, particularly language production, comprehension, dialogue, and bilingualism

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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 Jenny Cheshire FBA

Sociolinguistics; language change in multilingual urban centres, adolescent language, language & education, syntactic & discourse variation, syntax of spoken English.

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