Aditi Lahiri

Aditi Lahiri (* 1952 in India ) is an Indian linguist at Oxford University .

Life

Lahiri went to school in Kolkata and studied mathematics at Calcutta University . She studied English Linguistics (MA) at Brown University and received two Ph.D. -Grade - first in comparative and then in theoretical linguistics. After further positions at the University of California in Los Angeles and Santa Cruz and the Netherlands , she became Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Konstanz in 1992 . In 2007 she was appointed to Oxford University from there.

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Lahiri deals with language change and works in the field of phonology .

Awards and honors

She received the Max Planck Research Prize in 1995 and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation in 1999 for her work on general linguistics. In 2007 she was elected a full member of the Academia Europaea . She has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2010 .

Reading list

• Cortical representation of vowels reflects acoustic dissimilarity determined by formant frequencies , PDF document , together with Thomas Elbert and Jonas Obleser, Konstanz 2003
• Analogy, leveling, markedness. Principles of change in phonology and morphology , 2nd ed. Berlin, New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017552-5
• Issues in interdisciplinary research on the lexikon , Konstanz 1999

Web links

• Literature by and about Aditi Lahiri in the catalog of the German National Library
• Aditi Lahiri in the AcademiaNet database of renowned women scientists
• Homepage at Oxford University
• Homepage of Lahiri-led Collaborative Research Center 471
• DFG press release on the award ceremony ( memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Membership directory: Aditi Lahiri. Academia Europaea, accessed January 2, 2018 .