Aditi Lahiri

Aditi Lahiri {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE|FBA}} (born 1952 in Calcutta, India) is an Indian-born British linguist and Professor emerita of Linguistics at the University of Oxford.{{Cite web |title=Aditi Lahiri {{!}} Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics |url=https://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/people/aditi-lahiri |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk |language=en}} She held the Chair of Linguistics at the University of Oxford from 2007 until her retirement in 2022;{{Cite web |title=News - Prestigious senior British Academy appointment for Nottingham Professor - University of Nottingham |url=https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/prestigious-senior-british-academy-appointment-for-nottingham-professor |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=www.nottingham.ac.uk}} she was a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. Her main research interests are in phonology, phonetics, historical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics.{{Cite web|url=https://www.some.ox.ac.uk/people/aditi-lahiri/|title=Aditi Lahiri — Somerville College Oxford|website=www.some.ox.ac.uk|access-date=2019-04-12}}{{Cite web |title=Aditi Lahiri - Publications |url=https://neurotree.org/beta/publications.php?pid=741216 |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=neurotree.org}}

Early life and education

Lahiri was born on 14 July 1952 in Calcutta, India.{{cite web|title=LAHIRI, Prof. Aditi|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-254070|website=Who's Who 2018|publisher=Oxford University Press|access-date=8 September 2016|date=November 2017|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U254070|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4 }} She was educated at the Bethune College, Kolkata, India, and later the University of Calcutta.[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/Rejected-by-CU-a-star-at-Oxford/articleshow/7531584.cms Rejected by CU, a star at Oxford] She earned two doctorates; one from the University of Calcutta in comparative philology and one in linguistics from Brown University.[http://web.mit.edu/lsa2005/people/bios/lahiri.html About Lahiri]{{cite thesis |last1=Lahiri |first1=Aditi |date=1982 |title=Theoretical implications of analogical change: evidence from Germanic languages |oclc=615398231 |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/7cb01222ad259334f82350af88098c23/1 }}{{psc|date=February 2024}}

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 and as a professor at the University of Konstanz.{{Cite web |url=http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/proj/sfb471/mitglieder/lahiri.html |title=Homepage |access-date=12 February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210155756/http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/proj/sfb471/mitglieder/lahiri.html |archive-date=10 February 2012 |url-status=dead }}

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.

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.{{Cite web|url=http://brainlab.clp.ox.ac.uk/people/aditi-lahiri|title=Aditi Lahiri {{!}} Language and Brain Laboratory|website=brainlab.clp.ox.ac.uk|access-date=2019-04-12}}{{Cite web |title=Resolving Morpho-Phonological Alternation: Historical, Neurolinguistic, and Computational Approaches |url=https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/695481 |website=CORDIS EU research results}}

Honours

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

She received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2000.[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/German-honour-for-Aditi-Lahiri/articleshow/7530920.cms German honour for Aditi Lahiri]

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.{{London Gazette|issue=62866|supp=y|page=N9|date=28 December 2019}}{{cite web | url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-year-honours-list-2020 | title=New Year Honours list 2020 }}