Aditi Lahiri

Aditi Lahiri ( born 1952 in India) is an Indian linguist at the University of Oxford.

Life

Lahiri went to Kolkata to school and studied mathematics at the Calcutta University. At Brown University, she studied English Linguistics (MA) and received two Ph.D. degrees - first in Comparative and then in Theoretical Linguistics. He subsequently worked at the University of California at Los Angeles and Santa Cruz and the Netherlands in 1992 Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Konstanz. In 2007 she was appointed from there to the University of Oxford.

Work

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

Prices

She received the 1995 Max Planck Research Award, and the 1999 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for their work on general linguistics.

Bibliography

  • Cortical representation of vowels Reflects acoustic dissimilarity deterministic mined 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 lexicon, Konstanz 1999
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