Rebecca Posner (née Reynolds; 17 August 1929 – 19 July 2018)[1] was a British philologist, linguist and academic, who specialized in Romance languages.
[4] In 1949, Posner won an open exhibition to study modern languages at Somerville College, Oxford.
[6] Having completed her doctorate, Posner spent time at the Institut de Phonétique in Paris and was a post-doctoral fellow at Yale University in the United States.
[9] During this time, she spent a sabbatical year in the United States as a visiting professor of romance philology at Columbia University, New York (1971–1972).
[2] She was the recipient of a festschrift volume edited by two of her former colleagues, John Green and Wendy Ayres-Bennett: Variation and Change in French: essays presented to Rebecca Posner on the occasion of her sixtieth birthday (London, Routledge, 1990).