Professor John Wells FBA
Linguistics
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 1996
- Subjects
- Linguistics
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
Current post
Emeritus Professor of Phonetics, University College London
Past appointments
University College London Emeritus Professor of Phonetics
2006 -
University College London Lecturer, Reader, Professor of Phonetics
1962 -
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Bencie Woll FBA
Sign language as a model to understand human language generally: neuroimaging studies of commonalities in processing spoken & signed languages; the influence of modality of communication on language structure; sociolinguistics of Deaf communities.
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
