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Professor John Wells FBA

Linguistics
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1996
Subjects
Linguistics
Sections
Linguistics and Philology
Website
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/

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

Sounds Interesting 2014

Jamaican pronunciation in London 1973

Accents of English (3 vols) 1982

Longman pronunciation dictionary 1990

Other Fellows of the British Academy

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 Li Wei FBA

Language contact; bilingualism and multilingualism; language learning, and language education

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Professor Graham Furniss FBA

Oral and written literatures of Africa; orality, performance and genre in the popular cultures of West Africa with particular reference to Hausa-speaking regions of Nigeria and Niger

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