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Anne Cutler
Anne Cutler in 2015, portrait from the Royal Society
Born
Elizabeth Anne Cutler

(1945-01-17) 17 January 1945 (age 79)[2]
Melbourne[2]
Alma materUniversity of Texas at Austin (PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
Institutions
ThesisSentence stress and sentence comprehension (1975)
Websitewww.mpi.nl/people/cutler-anne

(Elizabeth) Anne Cutler (born 1945)[2] FRS[3] is a Research Professor at the MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney and Emeritus Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen.[4][5][6][7]

Education

After studying languages and psychology in Melbourne, Berlin and Bonn, Anne Cutler embraced psycholinguistics when it emerged as an independent field, going on to complete her PhD in the discipline at the University of Texas at Austin.[3][8]

Career and research

After postdoctoral research fellowships at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Sussex, she worked as a research scientist at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Applied Psychology Unit at the University of Cambridge.[3] Subsequently, she became Director at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and Professor of Comparative Psycholinguistics at Radboud University.[3]

Her research, summarised in the book Native Listening,[9] centres on human listeners’ recognition of spoken language, and in particular on how the brain’s processes of decoding speech are shaped by language-specific listening experience.[3]

Awards and honours

Cutler was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015.[3] Her certificate of election reads:

Anne Cutler has explained some of the major puzzles concerning how listeners decode speech. She was the first to demonstrate that the mother tongue determines the way speech is segmented into units and that these units are different in different languages (syllable, stress, mora, respectively in French, English and Japanese). She has demonstrated that listeners adapt quickly to phonemic categories with different speakers and that this is done on the basis of abstract representations, and not episodic exemplars. She has also shown how prosodic context aids segmentation of the speech stream and has embedded a vast array of experimental findings into a coherent and widely accepted theoretical framework.[1]

In 2000 Cutler was elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[10] Her work has also received the 1999 Spinoza Prize of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research[11] and the International Speech Communication Association Medal.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Professor Anne Cutler FRS". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-05-02.
  2. ^ a b c CUTLER. "CUTLER, Prof. (Elizabeth) Anne". Who's Who. Vol. 2016 (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Unknown parameter |othernames= ignored (help) (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) (subscription required)
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "Professor Anne Cutler FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-11-17. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Archived 2015-09-25 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Cutler, A.; Norris, D. (1988). "The role of strong syllables in segmentation for lexical access". Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 14: 113. doi:10.1037/0096-1523.14.1.113.
  5. ^ Anne Cutler's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  6. ^ Cutler, Anne; Mehler, Jacques; Norris, Dennis; Segui, Juan (1989). "Limits on bilingualism". Nature. 340 (6230): 229–230. doi:10.1038/340229a0. ISSN 0028-0836.
  7. ^ Cutler, A.; Mehler, J.; Norris, D.; Segui, J. (1986). "The syllable's differing role in the segmentation of French and English". Journal of Memory and Language. 25 (4): 385. doi:10.1016/0749-596X(86)90033-1.
  8. ^ Cutler, Anne (1975). Sentence stress and sentence comprehension (PhD thesis). University of Texas at Austin. OCLC 27475801.
  9. ^ Anne Cutler (2012) Native Listening ISBN 9780262017565 MIT Press mitpress.mit.edu/books/native-listening-0
  10. ^ "Anne Cutler". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  11. ^ "NWO Spinoza Prize 1999". Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. 11 September 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2016.


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