Jennifer Smith's research investigates speech patterns across time, space and the social system, uncovering the mechanisms which drive language variation and change.
Lutz Marten specialises in descriptive, comparative and theoretical linguistics; African languages; Bantu languages; Swahili; how language is linked to culture, society, history, identity, nature and other domains of life; African and global area studies
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