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Professor Martin Pickering FBA

The psychology of language, particularly language production, comprehension, dialogue, and bilingualism
Headshot of Professor Martin John Pickering FBA (credit Elizabeth Pickering)
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2023
Honours
FBA, FRSE
Sections
Linguistics and Philology , Psychology
Website
https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/martin-pickering

Current post

University of Edinburgh Professor of the Psychology of Language and Communication

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Sociolinguistics; language change in multilingual urban centres, adolescent language, language & education, syntactic & discourse variation, syntax of spoken English.

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Professor Li Wei FBA

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