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 edit
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 edit
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 edit
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 edit
- ^ "Aditi Lahiri | Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics". www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
- ^ "News - Prestigious senior British Academy appointment for Nottingham Professor - University of Nottingham". www.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
- ^ "Aditi Lahiri — Somerville College Oxford". www.some.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- ^ "Aditi Lahiri - Publications". neurotree.org. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
- ^ a b c "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.
- ^ Rejected by CU, a star at Oxford
- ^ a b About Lahiri
- ^ Lahiri, Aditi (1982). Theoretical implications of analogical change: evidence from Germanic languages (Thesis). OCLC 615398231.[non-primary source needed]
- ^ "Homepage". Archived from the original on 10 February 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2008.
- ^ "Aditi Lahiri | Language and Brain Laboratory". brainlab.clp.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- ^ "Resolving Morpho-Phonological Alternation: Historical, Neurolinguistic, and Computational Approaches". CORDIS EU research results.
- ^ German honour for Aditi Lahiri
- ^ "No. 62866". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 December 2019. p. N9.
- ^ "New Year Honours list 2020".
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