Anne Cutler

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Anne Cutler

FRS FASSA
Cutler in 2015
Born
Elizabeth Anne Cutler

(1945-01-17)17 January 1945
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died7 June 2022(2022-06-07) (aged 77)
Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Alma materUniversity of Texas at Austin (PhD)
AwardsSpinoza Prize (1999)
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2008)[1]
Fellow of the Royal Society (2016)
Fellow of the British Academy (2020)
Scientific career
FieldsPsycholinguistics
Institutions
ThesisSentence stress and sentence comprehension (1975)
Websitempi.nl/people/cutler-anne

Elizabeth Anne Cutler FRS FBA FASSA ((1945-01-17)17 January 1945 – (2022-06-07)7 June 2022) was an Australian psycholinguist, who served as director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. A pioneer in her field, Cutler's work focused on human listeners' recognition and decoding of spoken language. Following her retirement from the Max Planck Institute in 2012, she took a professorship at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University.

Early life and education[edit]

Elizabeth Anne Cutler was born on 17 January 1945 in Armadale, Victoria.[2][3] She attended the University of Melbourne, and in 1964 received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and German. Two years later she received her Diploma of Education in Modern Languages, and in 1971 received her master's degree in German linguistics.[4] 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 with her dissertation Sentence stress and sentence comprehension.[5][6]

Career and research[edit]

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 (United Kingdom) (MRC) Applied Psychology Unit at the University of Cambridge.[5] Subsequently she became Professor of Comparative Psycholinguistics at Radboud University.[5] In 1993, she became a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and held that title until 2012.[7]

Her research, summarised in the book Native Listening,[8] 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.[5]

Awards and honours[edit]

Cutler was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2015 for her work on sentence processing and phoneme recognition.[5][9] Cutler was elected as Foreign Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2007[10] and Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences in 2008.[1] In Australia, she was elected as Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2008[11] and as Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2009.[12]

In 2000 Cutler was elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[13] Her work has also received the 1999 Spinoza Prize of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research[14] and the International Speech Communication Association Medal.[5] In 2020 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA)[15] and she received the Silver Medal in Speech Communication from the Acoustical Society of America (ASA).[16]

Sources[edit]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "E. Anne Cutler". nasonline.org. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  2. ^ Anon (2016). "Cutler, Prof. (Elizabeth) Anne". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U284105. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ "Cutler, Anne". mpg.de. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  4. ^ Cutler, Anne (August 2020), Curriculum Vitae (PDF), retrieved 8 June 2022
  5. ^ a b c d e f The Royal Society (2015). "Professor Anne Cutler FRS". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  6. ^ Cutler, Anne (1975). Sentence stress and sentence comprehension (PhD thesis). University of Texas at Austin. OCLC 27475801. ProQuest 302785728.
  7. ^ "Anne Cutler". mpi.nl. Archived from the original on 23 March 2023. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  8. ^ Cutler, Anne (2012). Native Listening. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262017565. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  9. ^ The Royal Society (2015). "Professor Anne Cutler FRS". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2 May 2015. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  10. ^ "Academy of Europe: Cutler Anne". ae-info.org. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  11. ^ "Fellows: Anne Cutler". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Archived from the original on 4 October 2022. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  12. ^ "Academy Fellow: Professor Anne Cutler FASSA, FRS". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. 14 October 2019. Archived from the original on 11 December 2019. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  13. ^ "Anne Cutler". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  14. ^ "NWO Spinoza Prize 1999". Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. 11 September 2014. Archived from the original on 16 March 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  15. ^ Anon (2020). "Professor Anne Cutler FBA". thebritishacademy.ac.uk. The British Academy. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  16. ^ Moran, Elaine (1 October 2020). "Acoustical News". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 148 (4): 2100–2122. Bibcode:2020ASAJ..148.2100.. doi:10.1121/10.0001999. ISSN 0001-4966. S2CID 226244283.
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