mtyler

Username: mtyler

Participant details

	Network Member	Michael Tyler
	Organisation/Institution	University of Western Sydney
	Department/Centre	School of Psychology
	Lab	MARCS Auditory Laboratories
	Website	http://marcs.uws.edu.au/?q=people/dr-michael-tyler
	Research area	Psychology Psycholinguistics
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Research Interests

My research interests are in the areas of Cross-Language Speech Perception, Spoken Word Recognition/Segmentation, Statistical Language Learning, and Research Methodology. I am currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Prof. Catherine Best on her NIH-funded cross-language speech perception research. We recently completed a chapter extending her Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM) to account for Second Language Speech Learning (PAM-L2), and we continue to use the natural variation present in different English dialects as a tool to probe phonetic vs. phonological aspects of language development. I also investigate how infants and adults segment words from continuous speech (using artificial languages), and how school-aged children accommodate to phonetic variation (perceptual learning). As part of my doctoral work I designed and tested a new device for detecting the onset of speech in psycholinguistic experiments (The Delayed Trigger Voice Key). This design has now been implemented in the new button box being developed for Psyscope X experiment presentation software.

Representative Publications

Publications page: http://marcs.uws.edu.au/?q=people/michael-tyler-publications