swap_horiz Jean Aitchison Alternatives

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H. Paul Grice

H. Paul Grice was a British philosopher of language whose work formed the foundation of modern pragmatics. He is best kn...

Philosophy British Pragmatics Implicature

9.2 Excellent

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John L. Austin

John L. Austin (1911–1960) was a British philosopher of language and a leading figure in ordinary language philosophy at...

Philosophy British Speech Acts Pragmatics

9.1 Excellent

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Peter Ladefoged

Peter Ladefoged (1925–2006) was a prominent British phonetician who served as a professor at the University of Californi...

Speech British Fieldwork Phonetics

9.1 Excellent

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Michael Halliday

Michael Halliday was a British-born Australian linguist who developed the framework of systemic functional linguistics (...

Modern British Grammar Systemic Functional

8.9 Great

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Bernard Comrie

Bernard Comrie is a prominent British linguist specializing in linguistic typology and language universals. He has held...

British Typology Universals Aspect

8.8 Great

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Karen Spärck Jones

Karen Spärck Jones (1935–2007) was a British computer scientist and linguist at the University of Cambridge. In a 1972 p...

NLP British Computational Information Retrieval

8.7 Great

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Lila Gleitman

Lila Gleitman (1929–2021) was an American psycholinguist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She was a lead...

American Acquisition Semantics Psycholinguistics

8.6 Great

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Martin Kay

Martin Kay is a British-born computational linguist recognized for his foundational contributions to natural language pr...

Translation British Computational Syntax

8.5 Great

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Greville Corbett

Greville Corbett is a British linguist specializing in morphological typology, currently serving as a Distinguished Prof...

Morphology British Typology Agreement

8.5 Great

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J. R. Firth

John Rupert Firth (1890–1960), commonly known as J. R. Firth, was a British linguist who served as the first Professor o...

Context British Phonology Prosody

8.4 Great

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Peter Trudgill

Peter Trudgill is a prominent English sociolinguist recognized for his extensive research in dialectology and language v...

Variation British Sociolinguistics Dialectology

8.4 Great

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Geoffrey Pullum

Geoffrey K. Pullum is a British-American linguist and a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is wid...

British English Grammar Syntax

8.4 Great

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Randolph Quirk

Randolph Quirk was a British linguist and academic who made significant contributions to the study of the English langua...

British English Grammar Corpus

8.4 Great

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David Crystal

David Crystal is a British linguist, academic, and author widely recognized for his extensive work in making linguistics...

Popular British English Phonetics

8.4 Great

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Elizabeth Bates

Elizabeth Bates was an American cognitive scientist and developmental psychologist known for her research in language ac...

American Acquisition Cognition Psycholinguistics

8.4 Great

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Stephen C. Levinson

Stephen C. Levinson is a British linguist known for his contributions to pragmatics, linguistic relativity, and cognitiv...

British Cognition Typology Pragmatics

8.4 Great

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Lesley Milroy

Lesley Milroy is a prominent British sociolinguist whose research significantly advanced the study of language variation...

Variation British Networks Sociolinguistics

8.3 Great

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Brian MacWhinney

Brian MacWhinney is an American psycholinguist and professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known fo...

American Acquisition Computational Psycholinguistics

8.3 Great

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Dan I. Slobin

Dan I. Slobin is an American psycholinguist known for research on language acquisition and the relationship between lang...

American Acquisition Typology Psycholinguistics

8.3 Great

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Mark Steedman

Mark Steedman is a British computational linguist and cognitive scientist, long associated with the University of Edinbu...

British Computational Ccg Syntax

8.3 Great