Aditi Lahiri CBE FBA (born 1952 Calcutta, India) 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]
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]
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]
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]
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