Aditi Lahiri

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. "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. About Lahiri
8. Lahiri, Aditi (1982). Theoretical implications of analogical change: evidence from Germanic languages (Thesis). OCLC   615398231.^{[ non-primary source needed ]}
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. Archived from the original on 12 April 2019. 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".