Doctor Michael Tyler

Doctor Michael Tyler

SENIOR LECTURER,
Social, Personal & Developmental Psychology (SoSSP

Personal

Qualifications

  • BA University of Sydney
  • PhD University of Western Sydney
  • BA University of Western Sydney

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Social, Personal & Developmental Psychology (SoSSP

Contact

Email:M.Tyler@uws.edu.au
Extension:6507
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Location:24.1.08
Bankstown
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Biography

The University of Western Sydney has been a magnet in Michael Tyler's career. He first completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Sydney (1993-1995), double-majoring in Psychology and Linguistics, followed by an honours year at the University of Western Sydney (1996, Supervisor: Dr. Kate Stevens). After beginning his PhD in Psychology at the University of New South Wales in 1998, under the supervision of Prof. Denis Burnham, he soon transferred to the University of Western Sydney, where Prof. Burnham had taken up the position of Director of MARCS Auditory Laboratories at http://marcs.uws.edu.au

After completing his PhD he moved to France (Dijon) for a one-year postdoctoral research appointment at the Laboratoire d'Etude de l'Apprentissage et du Développement (CNRS), Université de Bourgogne and then to the Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) for a further 7 months. After nearly two years overseas, the UWS magnet pulled him back again. He returned to MARCS in 2005 to work with Prof. Catherine Best on cross-language speech perception. In 2008 he took up a position as Lecturer in the School of Psychology and he continues to collaborate with his colleagues in MARCS Auditory Laboratories.

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Publications

Chapters in Books

  • Best, C. and Tyler, M. (2007), 'Nonnative and second-language speech perception', Language Experience in Second Language Speech Learning: In honor of James Emil Flege, John Benjamins 9027219737.
  • Burnham, D., Tyler, M. and Horlyck, S. (2002), 'Period of Speech Perception Development and their Vestiges in Adulthood', An Integrated View of Language Development: Papers in Honour of Henning Wode, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 3884764888.

Journal Articles

  • Tyler, M. (2013), 'Regularity of unit length boosts statistical learning in verbal and nonverbal artificial languages', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 6.
  • Antoniou, M., Tyler, M. and Best, C. (2012), 'Two ways to listen: Do L2-dominant bilinguals perceive stop voicing according to language mode?', Journal of Phonetics, 13.
  • Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Best, C., Kroos, C. and Tyler, M. (2012), 'Second language learners' vocabulary expansion is associated with improved second language vowel intelligibility', Applied Psycholinguistics, 22.
  • Mcqueen, J., Tyler, M. and Cutler, A. (2012), 'Lexical retuning of children's speech perception: Evidence for knowledge about words' component sounds', Language Learning and Development, 23.
  • McQueen, J., Tyler, M. and Cutler, A. (2012), 'Lexical retuning of children's speech perception : evidence for knowledge about words' component sounds', Language Learning and Development, 23.
  • Antoniou, M., Tyler, M. and Best, C. (2012), 'Two ways to listen : do L2-dominant bilinguals perceive stop voicing according to language mode?', Journal of Phonetics, 13.
  • Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Best, C., Kroos, C. and Tyler, M. (2012), 'Second language learners' vocabulary expansion is associated with improved second language vowel intelligibility', Applied Psycholinguistics, 22.
  • Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Best, C. and Tyler, M. (2011), 'Vocabulary size matters: The assimilation of second-language Australian English vowels to first-language Japanese vowel categories', Applied Psycholinguistics, 17.
  • Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Best, C. and Tyler, M. (2011), 'Vocabulary size is associated with second-language vowel perception performance in adult learners', Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 29.
  • Antoniou, M., Best, C., Tyler, M. and Kroos, C. (2011), 'Inter-language interference in VOT production by L2-dominant bilinguals: Asymmetries in phonetic code-switching', Journal of Phonetics, 13.
  • Johnson, E. and Tyler, M. (2010), 'Testing the limits of statistical learning for word segmentation', Developmental Science, 7.
  • Antoniou, M., Best, C., Tyler, M. and Kroos, C. (2010), 'Language context elicits native-like stop voicing in early bilinguals' productions in both L1 and L2', Journal of Phonetics, 14.
  • Best, C., Tyler, M., Gooding, T., Orlando, C. and Quann, C. (2009), 'Development of Phonological Constancy - Toddlers' Perception of Native- and Jamaican-Accented Words', Psychological Science, 4.
  • Tyler, M. and Cutler, A. (2009), 'Cross-language differences in cue use for speech segmentation', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 10.
  • Tyler, M., Jones, C., Grebennikov, L., Leigh, G., Noble, W. and Burnham, D. (2009), 'Effect of Caption Rate on the Comprehension of Educational Television Programmes by Deaf School Students', Deafness and Education International, 11.
  • Burnham, D., Leigh, G., Noble, W., Jones, C., Tyler, M., Grebennikov, L. and Varley, A. (2008), 'Parameters in Television Captioning for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Adults: Effects of Caption Rate Versus Text Reduction on Comprehension', Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 14.
  • Perruchet, P., Peereman, R. and Tyler, M. (2006), 'Do We Need Algebraic-Like Computations? A reply to Bonatti, Pena, Nespor and Mehler', Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 5.
  • Tyler, M. and Burnham, D. (2006), 'Orthographic influences on phoneme deletion response times', The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 22.
  • Tyler, M., Tyler, L. and Burnham, D. (2005), 'The delayed trigger voice key: An improved analogue voice key for psycholinguistic research', Behavior Research Methods, 9.
  • Perruchet, P., Tyler, M., Galland, N. and Peereman, R. (2004), 'Learning Nonadjacent Dependencies: No Need for Algebraic-Like Computations', Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 11.
  • Tyler, M. (2001), 'Resource consumption as a function of topic knowledge in nonnative and native comprehension', Language Learning, 24.

Conference Papers

  • Tyler, M. and Faris, M. (2012), 'Can litheners retune native categories acroth a thoneme boundary?', Interspeech 2012, Portland, Oregon, US.
  • Tyler, M. and Fenwick, S. (2012), 'Perceptual assimilation of Arabic voiceless fricatives by English monolinguals', Interspeech 2012, Portland, Oregon, US.
  • Faris, M. and Tyler, M. (2012), 'Perceptual retuning or perceptual bias? Investigating lexically guided learning across a phoneme boundary', Speech Science and Technology Conference 2012, Sydney, Australia.
  • Tyler, M. and Faris, M. (2012), 'Can litheners retune native categories acroth a thoneme boundary?', Interspeech, Portland, Or..
  • Tyler, M. (2012), 'Perceptual assimilation of Arabic voiceless fricatives by English monolinguals', Interspeech, Portland, Or..
  • Tyler, M. (2012), 'Perceptual retuning or perceptual bias? Investigating lexically guided learning across a phoneme boundary', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Sydney, N.S.W..
  • Morrison, B., Wiggins, M., Bond, N. and Tyler, M. (2009), 'Examining cue recognition across expertise using a computer-based task', 9th Bi-annual International Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM9), London.
  • Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Best, C., Tyler, M. and Kroos, C. (2008), 'Evidence of a Near-Merger in Western Sydney Australian English Vowels', Interspeech 2008, Brisbane Australia.
  • Tyler, M., Best, C., Goldstein, L., Antoniou, M. and Krebs-Lazendic, L. (2008), 'Six and twelve-month-olds' discrimination of native versus non-native between- and within-organ fracative plast contrasts', Interspeech 2008, Brisbane Australia.
  • Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Best, C. and Tyler, M. (2008), 'The Assimilation of L2 Australian English Vowels to L1 Japanese Vowel Categories: Vocabulary Size Matters', Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia.
  • Antoniou, M., Best, C. and Tyler, M. (2008), 'Perceptual evidence of Modern Greek voiced stops as phonological categories', Interspeech 2008, Brisbane Australia.
  • Le, J., Best, C., Tyler, M. and Kroos, C. (2007), 'Effects of Non-native Dialects on Spoken Word Recognition', Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium.
  • Tyler, M. (2006), 'French Listeners Can Use Stress to Segment Words in an Artificial Language', 11th Australian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology, University of Auckland.
  • Stevens, C., Keller, P. and Tyler, M. (2004), 'Language tonality and its effects on the perception of contour in short spoken and musical items', ICMPC8, Evanston, USA.
  • Tyler, M. and Burnham, D. (2002), 'The role of orthographic processing in phoneme deletion tasks', The ninth australian international conference on speech science and technology, Melbourne, Australia.

Research

Second Language Speech Learning; Cross-Language Speech Perception; Spoken Word Recognition; Statistical Language Learning Developmental and Auditory Psycholinguistics; Research Methodology.

This information has been contributed by Doctor Tyler.

Previous Projects

Title:How do infants segment their first words from continuous speech?
Years:2005-12-21 - 2007-06-20
ID:P0015006
UWS Researchers:Michael Tyler and Catherine Best
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Development of second language phonetic and phonological categories
Years:2008-01-01 - 2012-09-30
ID:P0015549
UWS Researchers:Michael Tyler
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:AHAA! (Analysis of Human Articulate Activities): A Communicative Dynamics Research Facility
Years:2006-09-01 - 2007-08-31
ID:P0015240
UWS Researchers:Catherine Best, Catherine Stevens, Michael Tyler, Christian Kroos, Christopher Davis and Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Dynamic Auditory-Visual Humans
Years:2007-08-06 - 2008-12-31
ID:P0015758
UWS Researchers:Christopher Davis, Denis Burnham, Catherine Best, Roger Dean, Catherine Stevens, Jeesun Kim, Takaaki Kuratate, Christian Kroos, Michael Tyler and Connie So
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney

Supervision

Doctor Tyler is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects

Current Supervision

Title:Replicating and Extending the Perruchet Paradigm
Field of Research:

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