Professor Peter Trudgill FBA

Linguistics
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1989
Subjects
Linguistics

Current post

Honorary Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of East Anglia; Emeritus Professor, University of Fribourg

Past appointments

University of East Anglia Honorary Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of East Anglia; Emeritus Professor, University of Fribourg

2017 -

University of East Anglia Honorary Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of East Anglia; Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of Agder, Norway; Adjunct Professor, Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University; Emeritus Professor, University of Fribourg

2006 - 2017

University of Fribourg Professor of English Linguistics

1998 -

University of Essex Professor of Sociolinguistics

1987 - 1992

University of Reading Professor of Linguistics

1983 - 1986

Publications

On dialect 1982

Dialects in contact 1986

Sociolinguistic variation and change 2002

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Professor Shalom Lappin FBA

Computational learning theory and machine learning applied to grammar induction and natural language processing, computational and formal semantics, and computational modeling of cognitive processes

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Professor Ianthi Tsimpli FBA

First and second language acquisition, multilingualism, language impairment, language attrition and language development in exceptional circumstances; the interface between language and cognition and the role of the language of education in linguistic and cognitive development

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