Aditi Lahiri

Aditi Lahiri CBE FBA (born 1952) is an Indian-born British linguist and has held the Chair of Linguistics at the University of Oxford since 2007. She is a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. Her main research interests are in phonology, phonetics, historical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics.[1]

Early life and education

Lahiri was born on 14 July 1952 in Calcutta, India.[2] She was educated at the Bethune College, Kolkata, India, and later at the University of Calcutta.[3] She earned two doctorates; one from the University of Calcutta in comparative philology and one in linguistics from Brown University.[4]

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[4] and as a professor at the University of Konstanz.[5]

She has held the Chair of Linguistics at the University of Oxford and been a fellow of Somerville College, Oxford since 2007.[2]

She is now 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.[6]

Honours

In 2007, Lahiri was elected a Member of the Academia Europaea. In 2010, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).[2]

She received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2000.[7]

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.[8][9]

References
  1. "Aditi Lahiri — Somerville College Oxford". www.some.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  2. "LAHIRI, Prof. Aditi". Who's Who 2018. Oxford University Press. November 2017. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  3. Rejected by CU, a star at Oxford
  4. About Lahiri
  5. "Homepage". Archived from the original on 10 February 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2008.
  6. "Aditi Lahiri | Language and Brain Laboratory". brainlab.clp.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  7. German honour for Aditi Lahiri
  8. "No. 62866". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 December 2019. p. N9.
  9. |https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-year-honours-list-2020


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