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 Chris Frith FBA
The relationship between the mind and the brain; studies of perception, belief, will and consciousness in sickness and health with a special emphasis on interacting minds
Professor Susan Golombok FBA
Parenting and child development in new family forms including same-sex parent families, single mothers by choice, and families created by assisted reproductive technologies such as IVF, gamete donation and surrogacy
Professor Simon Kirby FBA
The origins and evolution of language; the interactions between individual cognition, cultural transmission and biological evolution in human populations; art / science collaboration
