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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 Irina Nikolaeva FBA

General linguistics; linguistic diversity and linguistic typology; language change; Uralic, Altaic and Palaeosiberian languages and linguistics; documentation and description of endangered languages

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Professor Terrie Moffitt FBA

Psychology Behavioural Genetics

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Professor Daniel Harbour

Theoretical linguistics, especially morphosemantics, morphosyntax and typology; underdocumented languages, especially Afroasiatic, Kiowa-Tanoan and South Caucasian; writing systems, their linguistic structure and decipherment.

Daniel Harbour FBA

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