Professor Aditi Lahiri FBA

Synchronic and diachronic morpho-phonology of Germanic and Indo-Aryan language families, and psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic research on the phonological and morphological representations of the mental lexicon

Elected 2010

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2010
Sections: Linguistics and Philology
Website: https://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/people/aditi-lahiri

Aditi Lahiri was awarded a CBE for services to the study of Linguistics in 2020.

Current post

Professor of Linguistics, University of Oxford; Fellow, Somerville College, Oxford

Past appointments

Sonderforschungsbereich 471 Research Director

2000 - 2007

University of Konstanz Professor and Chair in General Linguistics

1992 - 2007

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Senior Research Scientist

1985 - 1992

University of California, Santa Cruz Adjunct Assistant Professor

1984 - 1985

University of California, Los Angeles Visiting Assistant Professor

1983 - 1984

Brown University Post Doctoral Research Associate

1982 - 1983

Publications

Lexical gaps and morphological decomposition: Evidence from German

Swetlana Schuster and Aditi Lahiri - Published in 2019 by Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition

The neural correlates of morphological complexity processing: Detecting structure in pseudowords

Swetlana Schuster, Mathias Scharinger, Colin Brooks, Aditi Lahiri and Gesa Hartwigsen - Published in 2018 by Human Brain Mapping

Metrical Grouping and Cliticisation in Middle Dutch: Evidence From Verse

Aditi Lahiri and Johanneke Sytsema - Published in 2018 by Transactions of the Philological Society

Phonological feature-based speech recognition system for pronunciation training in non-native language learning

Vipul Arora, Aditi Lahiri and Henning Reetz - Published in 2018 by The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Compounds, phrases and clitics in connected speech

Hilary S Z Wynne, Linda Wheeldon and Aditi Lahiri - Published in 2018 by Journal of Memory and Language

Open Syllable Lengthening in Middle Dutch: Evidence from Verse

Johanneke Sytsema and Aditi Lahiri - Published in 2018 by Journal of Germanic Linguistics

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Philomen Probert FBA

Greek, Latin and Anatolian languages and literatures; history of linguistics, especially Greek and Latin grammarians; Indo-European historical and comparative linguistics; linguistic theory, especially prosody and diachronic syntax.

Professor Daniel Harbour

Theoretical linguistics, especially morphosemantics, morphosyntax and typology; underdocumented languages, especially Afroasiatic, Kiowa-Tanoan and South Caucasian; writing systems, their linguistic structure and decipherment.

Professor Ayesha Kidwai FBA

Generative grammar, field and descriptive linguistics, language policy in South Asia; Urdu/Hindi--English literary translation, Partition studies; inclusion and justice in higher education