Aditi Lahiri CBE FBA (born 1952 in Calcutta, India) is an Indian-born British linguist and Professor emerita of Linguistics at the University of Oxford.[1] She held the Chair of Linguistics at the University of Oxford from 2007 until her retirement in 2022;[2] she was a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. Her main research interests are in phonology, phonetics, historical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics.[3][4]

Early life and education

Lahiri was born on 14 July 1952 in Calcutta, India.[5] She was educated at the Bethune College, Kolkata, India, and later the University of Calcutta.[6] She earned two doctorates; one from the University of Calcutta in comparative philology and one in linguistics from Brown University.[7][8]

Academic career

Lahiri has taught at the University of California at Los Angeles and at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and worked as a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands[7] and as a professor at the University of Konstanz.[9]

She held the Chair of Linguistics at the University of Oxford and was a fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, from 2007 until her retirement in 2022.[5]

She was Director of the Language and Brain Lab and Principal Investigator of the MORPHON project (Resolving Morpho-Phonological Alternation: Historical, Neurolinguistic, and Computational Approaches), funded by the European Research Council.[10][11]

Honours

In 2007, Lahiri was elected a Member of the Academia Europaea. In 2010, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).[5]

She received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2000.[12]

Lahiri was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to the study of linguistics.[13][14]

References

  1. ↑ "Aditi Lahiri | Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics". www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  2. ↑ "News - Prestigious senior British Academy appointment for Nottingham Professor - University of Nottingham". www.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  3. ↑ "Aditi Lahiri — Somerville College Oxford". www.some.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  4. ↑ "Aditi Lahiri - Publications". neurotree.org. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  5. 1 2 3 "LAHIRI, Prof. Aditi". Who's Who 2018. Oxford University Press. November 2017. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U254070. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  6. ↑ Rejected by CU, a star at Oxford
  7. 1 2 About Lahiri
  8. ↑ Lahiri, Aditi (1982). Theoretical implications of analogical change: evidence from Germanic languages (Thesis). OCLC 615398231.
  9. ↑ "Homepage". Archived from the original on 10 February 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2008.
  10. ↑ "Aditi Lahiri | Language and Brain Laboratory". brainlab.clp.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  11. ↑ "Resolving Morpho-Phonological Alternation: Historical, Neurolinguistic, and Computational Approaches". CORDIS EU research results.
  12. ↑ German honour for Aditi Lahiri
  13. ↑ "No. 62866". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 December 2019. p. N9.
  14. ↑ "New Year Honours list 2020".


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