Professor Stephen Levinson FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1988
- Subjects
- Linguistics
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
Summary
Steve Levinson is co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, and Professor of Comparative Linguistics at Radboud University Nijmegen. He is the author of some 300 publications (http://www.mpi.nl/people/levinson-stephen/publications), with research interests focused on the relations between language, culture & cognition; language diversity; interactive uses of language; psycholinguistics; language evolution. Recent work has included psycholinguistic work on verb-first and ergative languages, and investigations of the processing demands of turn-taking in conversation. He has done extensive fieldwork on languages in India, Australia, Mexico and Papua New Guinea. He is also a fellow of the Academea Europea.
Current post
Past appointments
Nijmegen University, The Netherlands Director, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Professor
1995 -
Nijmegen University, The Netherlands Director, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Professor
1995 -
Other Foreign Institutions Director Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen; Professor at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
1991 -
Other Foreign Institutions Director Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen; Professor at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
1991 -
University of Cambridge Lecturer/Reader
1975 - 1991
University of Cambridge Lecturer/Reader
1975 - 1991
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Bill Hardcastle FBA
Theoretical and clinical phonetics and phonology, particularly experimental studies of speech production processes in typical and disordered speech
Professor Graham Furniss FBA
Oral and written literatures of Africa; orality, performance and genre in the popular cultures of West Africa with particular reference to Hausa-speaking regions of Nigeria and Niger
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
