Carol Ann Fowler is an American experimental psychologist. She was president and director of research at Haskins Laboratories in

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from 1992 to 2008. She is also a professor of psychology at the

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and adjunct professor of linguistics and psychology at

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. She received her undergraduate degree from

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in 1971, her M.A

in 1973 and her Ph.D. in psychology from the

in 1977. She is best known for her direct realist approach to

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. She has also done extensive research on the relationship between speech perception and speech production, and on

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. Fowler researched cross‐language influences on speech production in the two languages of native bilingual speakers Specifically, the voiceless voice‐onset times (VOTs) of bilingual speakers of English and French in Montreal were longer in their French speech and shorter in their English speech than the VOTs of monolingual speakers of the two languages in Montreal. In 2016, the journal Ecological Psychology published in two parts a collection of papers in honor of her contribution to the field.

Selected publications

* Fowler, C. A., Rubin, P. E., Remez, R. E., & Turvey, M. T. (1980). Implications for speech production of a general theory of action. In B. Butterworth (Ed.), ''Language Production, Vol. I: Speech and Talk'' (pp. 373–420). New York: Academic Press. * Fowler, C. A., Galantucci, B. and Saltzman, E. (2003). Motor theories of perception. In M. Arbib (Ed.) ''The handbook of brain theory and neural networks''. (pp. 705–707) Cambridge MA: MIT Press. * Fowler, C. A. (2003). Speech production and perception. In A. Healy and R. Proctor (eds.). ''Handbook of psychology, Vol. 4: Experimental Psychology''. (pp. 237–266) New York: John Wiley & Sons. * * Goldstein, L. and Fowler, C. A. (2003). Articulatory phonology: A phonology for public language use. In N. O. Schiller and A. Meyer (eds) ''Phonetics and Phonology in Language Comprehension and Production: Differences and Similarities''. (pp. 159–207) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. * * Brady, S., Braze, D., & Fowler, C. A. (Eds.). (2011). "Explaining individual differences in reading: Theory and evidence". New York: Psychology Press. * Fowler, C. A. (2011). How theories of phonology may enhance understanding of the role of phonology in reading development and reading disability. In S. A. Brady, D. Braze & C. A. Fowler (Eds.), "Explaining individual differences in reading: Theory and evidence". New York: Psychology Press.

References

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