April M. S. McMahon#
| Membership Number: | 2802 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2010 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 Head of the College of Humanities and Social Science
- Since 2005 Forbes Professor of English and Head of the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Edinburgh University
- 2000-2004 Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Sheffield
- 1988-2000 Lecturer at the Department of Linguistics at Cambridge University
- 1990 PhD, English Language, Edinburgh
Fields of Scholarship
- Linguistics
- Comparisons between various English accents, with a particular interest in Scots
- Language change
- Phonology
- Historical linguistics
Honours and Awards
- Member of the Academia Europaea
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Fellow of the British Academy
