Psycholinguistics meets psycholinguistics : different emphases, sustainable collaborations

The first author (DB) first met Acharn Sudaporn ('Acharn Sudie', as he later came to call her, succumbing to the Australian obsession with adding '-ie' to as many proper nouns as possible) in 1989. He was on sabbatical in the (then) Linguistic Research Unit (LRU), which later became, under the Illustrious Acharn's steerage, the CRSLP (Centre for Research in Speech and Language Processing). DB had gone to the Chula to conduct studies on speech perception development in Thai children and had found (in those preinternet days) reference to a couple of Acharn at Chulalongkorn (Chula), neither of them Acharn Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin (SL). There were two defining moments that set the scene for DB's and SL's later work together. The first concerns food. The second concerns academia, when Acharn Sudie told DB the parable of 'The Chulalongkorn Administration and the Enterprising Linguist'. The collaborations initiated by Acharn Sudaporn have led to all sorts of innovations, insights, and illuminations. Below we set out juxtapositions that show that considering research from different perspectives can be fun and enlightening, and keeps one forever a student! We start with the Visual vs the Auditory senses and then move gradually to the main concern here, psycholinguistics and speech perception development.