Aditi Lahiri

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Aditi Lahiri CBE FBA (born 1952 in Calcutta, India) is an Indian-born British linguist and Professor emerita of Linguistics at the University of Oxford.[1] She held the Chair of Linguistics at the University of Oxford from 2007 until her retirement in 2022;[2] she was a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. Her main research interests are in phonology, phonetics, historical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics.[3][4]

Lahiri was born on 14 July 1952 in Calcutta, India.[5] She was educated at the Bethune College, Kolkata, India, and later the University of Calcutta.[6] She earned two doctorates; one from the University of Calcutta in comparative philology and one in linguistics from Brown University.[7][8]

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