Aditi Lahiri

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Indian English Aditi Lahiri Template:Post-nominals (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]

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