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
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2015
- Subjects
- Linguistics, Psychology
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology , Psychology
Current post
Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Sophie Scott FBA
Neurobiology of the human voice, including perception, production, as well as emotional expressions such as laughter
Professor Margaret Snowling FBA
Developmental disorders of language, learning and cognition including basic research on dyslexia and language impairment and the development and evaluation of interventions that ameliorate children’s literacy difficulties
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
