Professor Devyani Sharma FBA
Social and cognitive basis of language variation and change; new dialects of English; sociolinguistics, bilingualism, typology; accent variation and social perception
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2023
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
Current post
Queen Mary University of London Professor, Department of Linguistics
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Ianthi Tsimpli FBA
First and second language acquisition, multilingualism, language impairment, language attrition and language development in exceptional circumstances; the interface between language and cognition and the role of the language of education in linguistic and cognitive development
Professor Shalom Lappin FBA
Computational learning theory and machine learning applied to grammar induction and natural language processing, computational and formal semantics, and computational modeling of cognitive processes
Professor Robyn Carston FBA
The human capacity for ostensive communication; its relation to linguistic competence and theory of mind; the semantics and pragmatics of word meaning; metaphorical and other non-literal uses of language
