A new life in the United States

The author and his family left for the United States in July 1974 where he joined the Psychology Department at Northeastern University. He recounts his impressions during their first years there, both at work and in everyday life. The family’s first boy, Cyril, became the conduit to things American. A sojourn that was to last one year became a twelve year stay. The author headed the new Linguistics Program, taught, and did research. It is at MIT that the author developed the gating paradigm which he used to study spoken word recognition. During those years, he met and started doing research with James Gee.