Education

1940-45, Marlborough College, Wiltshire, England
1945, Major scholarship in Classics, Cambridge University
1945-46, Jesus College, Cambridge, England
1948-51, Jesus College, Cambridge, England
1951, B.A. in Classics (Greek and Latin literature, Greek archaeology), Cambridge University
1957-60, Columbia University, New York
1961, Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, Columbia University

Academic Experience

1951-52, Anglo-American Overseas School of Rome, Italy Teacher of High

School Latin and English

1955-57, Columbia Grammar School, New York, New York Teacher of High

School Latin and History

1957-60, Teaching and Research Assistantships in Department of Psychology,

Columbia University

1960-61 Instructor of Psychology, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine

1961-66 Assistant Professor of Psychology, Barnard College, Columbia

University, New York, New York

1961-84 Research Associate, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT

1966-67 Associate Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychology, Inter-

American University, San German, Puerto Rico

1967-69 Associate Professor, Annenberg School of Communications, University

of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1969-71 Associate Professor of Communications, Queens College, CUNY,

New York

1971-77 Chairman, Department of Communication Arts and Sciences, Queens

College, CUNY, Flushing, New York

1972-87 Professor of Communications, Queens College, CUNY, Flushing,

New York

1984-86 Vice-President for Research, Haskins Laboratories

1987-92 Professor of Psychology, University of Connecticut and Adjunct

Professor of Linguistics, Yale University

1986-92 President, Haskins Laboratories

Co-recipient of grants to Haskins Laboratories from NSF and NIH, 1961-present; Co-principal Investigator (with Alvin M. Liberman) of Program Project Grant from NICHD to Haskins Laboratories, 1981-85; Principal Investigator of Program Project Grant from NICHD to Haskins Laboratories, 1986-1990; 1991-1992.

Editorial boards:
Applied Psycholinguistics, 1984-1994
Brain and Language, 1973-1986
Cognition, 1978-1992
Ecological Psychology, 1989-1992
Phonetica, 1978-1992

Fellow, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld, Germany, 1977-78.

Elected a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, 1980.

Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, 1985-86.