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'''Aditi Lahiri''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE|FBA}} (born 1952) 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]].<ref>{{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}}</ref><br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
Lahiri was born on 14 July 1952 in [[Calcutta]], [[India]].<ref name="Who's Who 2018">{{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}}</ref> She was educated at the [[Bethune College]], [[Kolkata]], [[India]], and later at the [[University of Calcutta]].<ref>[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/Rejected-by-CU-a-star-at-Oxford/articleshow/7531584.cms Rejected by CU, a star at Oxford]</ref> She earned two doctorates; one from the [[University of Calcutta]] in comparative [[philology]] and one in [[linguistics]] from [[Brown University]].<ref name=About_Lahiri>[http://web.mit.edu/lsa2005/people/bios/lahiri.html About Lahiri]</ref><br />
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==Academic career==<br />
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<ref name=About_Lahiri/> and as a professor at the [[University of Konstanz]].<ref>{{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 }}</ref><br />
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She has held the Chair of Linguistics at the [[University of Oxford]] and been a fellow of [[Somerville College, Oxford]] since 2007.<ref name="Who's Who 2018"/><br />
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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]].<ref>{{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}}</ref><br />
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==Honours==<br />
In 2007, Lahiri was elected a Member of the [[Academia Europaea]]. In 2010, she was elected a [[Fellow of the British Academy]] (FBA).<ref name="Who's Who 2018"/><br />
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She received the [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize]] in 2000.<ref name=German_honour>[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/German-honour-for-Aditi-Lahiri/articleshow/7530920.cms German honour for Aditi Lahiri]</ref><br />
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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.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=62866|supp=y|page=N9|date=28 December 2019}}</ref><ref name=CBE>|https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-year-honours-list-2020 </ref><br />
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