Congratulations to the following student travel award recipients

International Awards:
Melanie Preece-Pinet (University College London, UK) - The roles of second-language experience and accent in speech recognition in noise

Eleni Vlahou (University of Crete, Greece) - Implicit learning of non-native speech stimuli

North American Awards:
Astrid Doty (University of South Florida, USA) - Spoken word recognition in quiet and noise by native and non-native listeners: Effects of age of immersion and vocabulary size

James Kirby (University of Chicago, USA) - Linguistic experience in tone perception

Monika Molnar (McGill University, Canada) - Automatic auditory discrimination of vowels in simultaneous bilingual and monolingual speakers as measured by the mismatch negativity (MMN)

Jennifer Phan (Indiana University, USA) - Infant dialect discrimination

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The Workshop is offering 6 student travel awards: 4 North American students awards (USD$350.00 each) and 2 international students awards (USD$600.00 each). Award applicants must register as normal for the workshop. Award recipients will submit their receipts to be reimbursed up to the award limit. Student travel award applications will be handled separately via the procedures set-out below:

1. Download application form here. [APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED]

2. Complete and submit application form to m.gallagher@uws.edu.au by the deadline of MONDAY, MARCH 9, 2009.

Applicants will be advised by email by early APRIL 2009 whether or not they have been awarded one of the travel grants. Note that the ASA Early Bird registration deadline is April 27, 2009.