Catherine (Cathi) Best | |
|---|---|
| Awards | NIH postdoctoral fellowship grant, NIH Research Career Development Award |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Michigan State University (PhD) |
| Thesis | The role of consonant and vowel acoustic features in infant cerebral asymmetries for speech perception (1978) |
| Hiram E. Fitzgerald Lauren Julius Harris | |
Other advisors | Alvin Liberman Michael Studdert-Kennedy |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | linguistics, psychology |
Sub-discipline | psycholinguistics |
| Institutions | Western Sydney University (2004-) Wesleyan University (1984-2004) Columbia University (1980-1984) |
Notable ideas | Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM) |
Catherine (Cathi) Best is an American psycholinguist and Chair in Psycholinguistic Research at Western Sydney University. She is known for her works on speech perception and production.[1][2][3] She developed the Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM) for non-native speech perception. In 2007, Best and Michael D. Tyler also proposed an extension of this model for second-language learners, called the PAM-L2.[4]
References
- "Professor Catherine (Cathi) Best". www.westernsydney.edu.au.
- "Catherine T Best". scholar.google.com.
- "Catherine T. Best". ORCID.
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