| Jean Aitchison | | | | | |
| Alan J. Bliss | | | | | J. R.R. Tolkien (grad student) |
| Deborah Cameron | | | | | |
| Sherry Yong Chen | syntax, semantics, sentence processing, language acquisition | Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics | 2015 | 2017 | Edward Matthew Husband (grad student) |
| Letícia Maria Sicuro Correa | Psycholinguistics, Language Acquisition | Faculty of English Language and Literature | | | Jean Aitchison (research scientist) |
| Mary Dalrymple | syntax, semantics | | | | |
| James Doull | Hegel | | | | |
| Fanny Mojdeh Elahi | brain development and language acquisition, FOXP transcription factors | | | | |
| David Ellis Evans | | | 1952 | 1957 | Idris Llewelyn Foster (grad student) |
| Jamie Y. Findlay | syntax, semantics | | 2015 | 2019 | Mary Dalrymple (grad student), Ash Asudeh (grad student) |
| Simon E. Fisher | speech, language | | 1996 | 2002 | Anthony P. Monaco (post-doc) |
| Beatrice Gardner | Animal Behavior, Teaching Sign Language to Chimpanzees | | | | Nikolaas (Niko) Tinbergen (grad student) |
| Alison Gopnik | Development | | 1975 | 1980 | Jerome Seymour Bruner (grad student) |
| Matthew Gotham | | | | | |
| Rosemary Hall | sociolinguistics, English dialectology, Bermudian English, performance speech, racialized dialect parody | Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics | 2015 | 2018 | Deborah Cameron (grad student), Rosalind Temple (grad student) |
| Carmel Houston-Price | language development, early word learning | Experimental Psychology Experimental Psychology | | | Kim Plunkett (grad student), Paul Harris (grad student) |
| Dulhan Jayalath | | | | | |
| Jörn Klinger | Language acquisition, typology | | 2009 | 2010 | Julien Mayor (grad student), Kim Plunkett (grad student) |
| Raoul le Chevalier | | | | | Paul Fagius (grad student) |
| Toby Samuel Lowther | Syntax, Semantics, Syntax-Semantics Interface, Discourse Semantics, Generative Syntax, Lexical-Functional Grammar, Bilingualism, Code-Switching, Objecthood, Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Science | Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics | 2017 | 2025 | Louise Mycock (grad student) |
| Nivedita Mani | Language Acquisition, Phonology, Lexical Processing | | 2005 | 2006 | Kim Plunkett (post-doc), John Coleman (grad student) |
| Julien Mayor | Experimental psychology, language acquisition, word learning, computational modeling | | 2007 | | Kim Plunkett (post-doc), Oiwi Parker Jones (collaborator) |
| Angus McIntosh | | | | | J. R.R. Tolkien (grad student) |
| Stella M. Mills | | | | | J. R.R. Tolkien (grad student) |
| Max Müller | | | 1888 | 1892 | Moriz Winternitz (collaborator), Lorenz Franz Kielhorn (collaborator) |
| Louise Mycock | | | | | Nigel Vincent (grad student) |
| Bunyu Nanjo | | | | 1884 | Max Müller (grad student) |
| Yuko Otsuka | Syntax, Tongan language, Polynesian languages, ergativity | | | | James Higginbotham (grad student) |
| Sandra Paoli | | | | | Nigel Vincent (grad student) |
| Oiwi Parker Jones | Neuroscience, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing | Computer Science Engineering Science Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging | | | John Coleman (grad student), Saad Jbabdi (post-doc), Nando de Freitas (post-doc), Ingmar Posner (post-doc), Natalie Voets (collaborator) |
| Kim Plunkett | Connectionism, word learning, language acquisition | | 2003 | 2007 | Gert Westermann (collaborator) |
| Suzanne Romaine | Bilingualism | | | | |
| Richard Stockwell | | | | | |
| Jane Stuart-Smith | Phonetics, Sociophonetics, Sociolinguistics, Historical Linguistics | | 1991 | 1996 | John Coleman (grad student) |
| Henry Sweet | Phonetics | | 1869 | 1873 | Benjamin Jowett (research assistant) |
| Junjiro Takakusu | | | | 1894 | Max Müller (grad student) |
| Rosalind Temple | | | | | |
| Amanda L R Thomas | Syntax, Morphology, Portuguese | | | | Louise Mycock (grad student) |
| J. R.R. Tolkien | | | | | Joseph Wright (grad student) |
| David Willis | | | | | David Ellis Evans (grad student) |
| Arthur Wingfield | Cognitive aging and language | | | | Richard C. Oldfield (grad student) |
| Chen Xie | Linguistics, Syntax, Syntax-Phonology Interface, LFG, Wenzhounese, Mandarin | | | | |