Anne Cutler

(Elizabeth) Anne Cutler (born 1945)[1] FRS[3] is a Research Professor at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University and Emeritus Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen.[4][5][6][7]

Anne Cutler
Anne Cutler at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2015
Born
Elizabeth Anne Cutler

(1945-01-17) 17 January 1945[1]
Melbourne[1]
Alma materUniversity of Texas at Austin (PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
Institutions
ThesisSentence stress and sentence comprehension (1975)
Websitempi.nl/people/cutler-anne

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.[2]

Cutler was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2009.[10]

In 2000 Cutler was elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[11] Her work has also received the 1999 Spinoza Prize of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research[12] and the International Speech Communication Association Medal.[3]

References
  1. "CUTLER, Prof. (Elizabeth) Anne". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 2016 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription or UK public library membership required) (subscription required)
  2. Anon (2015). "Professor Anne Cutler FRS". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2 May 2015.
  3. Anon (2015). "Professor Anne Cutler FRS". London: royalsociety.org. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. 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." --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  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: 113–121. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.472.3481. 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. Bibcode:1989Natur.340..229C. doi:10.1038/340229a0. hdl:2066/15593. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 2755479. S2CID 4361898.
  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. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0013-346B-2.
  8. Cutler, Anne (1975). Sentence stress and sentence comprehension (PhD thesis). University of Texas at Austin. OCLC 27475801. ProQuest 302785728.
  9. Anne Cutler (2012) Native Listening ISBN 9780262017565 MIT Press mitpress.mit.edu/books/native-listening-0 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  10. "Academy Fellow: Professor Anne Cutler FASSA, FRS". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  11. "Anne Cutler". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  12. "NWO Spinoza Prize 1999". Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. 11 September 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
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