Professor Mark Steedman FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2002
- Subjects
- Linguistics
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
Current post
Professor of Cognitive Science, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Past appointments
University of Edinburgh Professor of Cognitive Science
1998 -
University of Edinburgh Professor of Cognitive Science in the Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
1998 -
University of Pennsylvania Associate and full Professor in Computer and Information Sciences
1988 - 1998
University of Edinburgh Lecturer and Reader in Computational Linguistics
1983 - 1988
University of Warwick
1983 - 1997
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
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
Professor Robert Ladd FBA
Phonology and phonetics, and the relation between them ("laboratory phonology"); intonation and prosody, including focus, emotion, pitch perception, tone languages, and links between language and music
