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Anne Cutler
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Cutler in 2015
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Elizabeth Anne Cutler
17 January 1945 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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| Died | 7 June 2022 (aged 77) Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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| Alma mater | University of Texas at Austin (PhD) |
| Awards | Spinoza Prize (1999) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2008) Fellow of the Royal Society (2016) Fellow of the British Academy (2020) |
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| Fields | Psycholinguistics |
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| Thesis | Sentence stress and sentence comprehension (1975) |
Elizabeth Anne Cutler (born January 17, 1945 – died June 7, 2022) was an Australian scientist. She was a psycholinguist, which means she studied how our brains understand language. Anne Cutler was a leader in her field. Her work focused on how people listen to and understand spoken words.
After she retired from the Max Planck Institute in 2012, she became a professor. She taught at the MARCS Institute at Western Sydney University.
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Early Life and Studies
Elizabeth Anne Cutler was born in Armadale, Victoria, Australia. This was on January 17, 1945. She went to the University of Melbourne. In 1964, she earned a degree in Psychology and German.
Two years later, she got a teaching diploma. In 1971, she earned her master's degree in German linguistics. Anne Cutler became very interested in psycholinguistics. This field was new and exciting at the time. She then earned her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. Her main project was about how we understand sentences based on how words are stressed.
Her Work and Discoveries
After finishing her studies, Anne Cutler worked at important research centers. She was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She also worked at the University of Sussex. Later, she became a research scientist in Cambridge, UK.
She then became a director at the Max Planck Institute. This institute is in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She also became a professor at Radboud University.
Her main research was about how humans understand spoken language. She especially studied how our brains learn to decode speech. This process is shaped by the language we hear every day. Her ideas are summarized in her book, Native Listening.
Awards and Special Recognition
Anne Cutler received many important awards for her work. These awards showed how much her research helped us understand language.
- In 2015, she was chosen as a Fellow of the Royal Society. This is a very high honor for scientists.
- She became a Foreign Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2007.
- In 2008, she was named a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences.
- She also received honors in Australia. She became an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2008. In 2009, she was a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
In 2000, Anne Cutler became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. She also won the Spinoza Prize in 1999. This is a top science award in the Netherlands. She also received the International Speech Communication Association Medal. In 2020, she became a Fellow of the British Academy. She also won the Silver Medal in Speech Communication. This was from the Acoustical Society of America.
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Cutler in 2015
