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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 David Willis FBA

Syntactic variation and change; historical linguistics and digital humanities; linguistics of the Celtic languages, especially Welsh; historical syntax of the Slavonic languages and of English

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Professor Mary Dalrymple FBA

Descriptive and theoretical syntax and semantics; language documentation; Austronesian and Papuan languages; grammatical analysis within the theory of Lexical Functional Grammar

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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

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