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Professor Robyn Carston FBA

The human capacity for ostensive communication; its relation to linguistic competence and theory of mind; the semantics and pragmatics of word meaning; metaphorical and other non-literal uses of language
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2016
Subjects
Linguistics
Sections
Linguistics and Philology
Website
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/people/profiles/academic-staff/robyn-carston

Current post

Professor of Linguistics, University College London; Senior Researcher, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo

Past appointments

University College London Professor of Linguistics

1970 -

Other Foreign Institutions Senior Researcher, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo

1970 -

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Anna Korhonen FBA

Anna Korhonen's research interests are computational linguistics, natural language processing and artificial intelligence; language technologies serving diverse languages, cultures and communities; human-centred AI bridging technology and society; and AI for equitable and sustainable global development.

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Professor Aditi Lahiri FBA

Synchronic and diachronic morpho-phonology of Germanic and Indo-Aryan language families, and psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic research on the phonological and morphological representations of the mental lexicon

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Professor Elinor Saiegh-Haddad FBA

Elinor Saiegh-Haddad's research interests are Arabic Linguistics, Diglossia, Literacy, Intervention, and typical and atypical language acquisition.

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