Anne Cutler
Also known as Elizabeth Anne Cutler
Anne Cutler (1945–2022) was a psycholinguist who studied how listeners recognize spoken language. Her career ran from postdoctoral posts at MIT and Sussex to a directorship at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. In 1999 she became the first woman to receive the NWO Spinoza Prize, the highest award in Dutch science. The ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement, which honors contributions to speech communication science and technology, came to her in 2014, and she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2015. Her 2012 book Native Listening summarized that research, and she died in 2022.
Timeline
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1945
Studying languages and psychology
She is born in Armadale, Victoria, in 1945, and she studies languages and psychology in Melbourne, Berlin and Bonn.
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1975–1982
Postdoctoral posts at MIT and Sussex
In 1975–1976 she is a postdoctoral fellow at MIT, and from 1976 to 1982 she is a research fellow at the University of Sussex.
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1993–2012
Director at the Max Planck Institute
She becomes a director at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen in 1993, a post she holds until her retirement in 2012.
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1999
The NWO Spinoza Prize
In 1999 she becomes the first woman to receive the NWO Spinoza Prize, the highest award in Dutch science, and uses the prize money to found the Baby and Child Research Centre.
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2012
The book Native Listening
The book Native Listening, published in 2012, summarizes her psycholinguistic research on how listeners recognize spoken language.
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2014
The ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement
The ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement comes to her at Interspeech in Singapore in 2014, an honor for contributions to speech communication science and technology.
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2015–2020
Royal Society and British Academy fellowships
Her election as a Fellow of the Royal Society comes in 2015, and in 2020 the British Academy welcomes her as a Fellow.
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2022
Her death and a memorial symposium
She dies in 2022, and Radboud University and the Max Planck Institute organize a two-day symposium in her honor for June 2023.
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- Anne Cutler - Wikipedia
- Professor Anne Cutler FRS | Royal Society Fellow
- Academy of Europe: Cutler Anne
- NATIVE LISTENING: A CANTEEN OF CUTLERY - Language in interaction
- In Memoriam Anne Cutler | Radboud University
- ISCA - ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement
- Emeritus Director Anne Cutler welcomed as new Fellow by The British Academy | Max Planck Institute