Anne Cutler

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Anne Cutler

Elizabeth Anne Cutler (born January 17, 1945 in Armadale , Australia ) is an Australian psycholinguist. She is now professor emeritus for comparative psycholinguistics at Radboud University Nijmegen and director at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen .

Life

Cutler studied psychology and German at the University of Melbourne with a bachelor's degree in 1964 and a master's degree in linguistics of Germanic languages ​​in 1971. She then went to the University of Texas , where she received her doctorate in psycholinguistics in 1975 (sentence stress and sentence comprehension). She was a post-doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . From 1976 to 1982 she was at the Laboratory for Experimental Psychology at the University of Sussex and from 1982 to 1993 she conducted research at the Applied Psychology Group of the Medical Research Council in Cambridge. From 1995 to 2013 she was professor for comparative psycholinguistics at Radboud University Nijmegen.

In 1993 she became a member of the Max Planck Society and was director at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics from 1993 to 2013 (from 2001 to 2003 and 2009/10 managing director). From 2004 she was Adjunct Professor at the MARCS Institute at the University of Western Sydney and has been a professor there since 2006.

Research and Teaching

Anne Cutler researched the mechanisms of recognition and production of language and the role of sound in the perception of words.

Her research on slip of the tongue and accentuation showed that the memory model of words for the production of language is organized not only according to the meaning of the words, but also according to the sound form and morphological structure. She found that mental processes of decomposing spoken and heard language are not universal, but language-specific. The listeners orient themselves to the specific rhythmic structure of their language. She also found that these mechanisms of language decomposition in children are acquired in the first year, before word meaning is learned.

Awards and memberships

In 1999 she received the Spinoza Prize and in 1997 the Cognitive Psychology Award from the British Psychology Society. In 2001 she gave the Heisenberg Lecture of the Siemens Stiftung, in 2006 the Bartlett Lecture of the Experimental Psychology Society and in 2011 the R. Douglas Wright Lecture at the University of Melbourne. In 2014 she received the medal of the International Speech Communication Association.

She is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the Academia Europaea and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. Cutler is a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Philosophical Society and the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. She is an honorary member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Linguistic Society of America, and the Association for Laboratory Phonology.

Fonts

  • Editor and co-author: Slips of the tongue and language production , Den Haag: Mouton 1982.
  • with D. Dahan, W. Van Donselaar: Prosody in the comprehension of spoken language: A literature review. Language and Speech, Volume 40, 1997, pp. 141-201.
  • with JM McQueen: Cognitive processes in speech perception , in: WJ Hardcastle, JD Laver (eds.), The handbook of phonetic sciences, Oxford: Blackwell 1997, pp. 556-585.
  • with J. Mehler, D. Norris, J. Segui: Limits on bilingualism , Nature (Letters), Volume 340, 1989, pp. 229-230.
  • with J. Mehler, D. Norris, J. Segui: The syllable's differing role in the segmentation of French and English , Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 25, 1996, pp. 385-400
  • with D. Norris: The role of strong syllables in segmentation for lexical access , Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Volume 14, 1988, pp. 113-121
  • with D. Norris: The role of strong syllabes in lexical access , in GT Altmann (Ed.), Psycholinguistics: Critical concepts in psychology, Routledge 1992, pp. 157-177
  • Lexical Access, in L. Nadel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Nature Publishing Group 2006, pp. 858-864
  • with J. M: McQueen, D. Norris: The dynamic nature of speech perception. Language and Speech, Volume 49, 2006, pp. 101-112

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Anne Cutler, KNAW
personal data
SURNAME Cutler, Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cutler, Elizabeth Anne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian psycholinguist
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Armadale , Australia