Katherine Demuth Explained

Katherine Demuth is an American professor of linguistics and the director of the Child Language Lab at Macquarie University.^[1] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales in February 2018,^[2] and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (FSSA).^[1]

Education and career

She earned a BA from University of New Mexico, and an MA and Ph.D. from Indiana University Bloomington.^{[1] [3]}

Her early works included work on Bantu languages. At Macquarie University's Child Language Laboratory she and her team study language acquisition and development in children (including the hearing impaired, Mandarin-speaking children,^[4] those with mothers suffering depression,^[5] and indigenous children) and continue her work on child language acquisition from Brown University.^[6]

External links

• Child Language Lab at Brown: Research in language acquisition
• Child Language Lab at Brown: Research in Bantu languages

Notes and References

1. Web site: Academy Fellow: Katherine Demuth. 2023-02-11. Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. en-AU.
2. Web site: Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales 529 NSW Government Gazette No 13 of 6 February 2018 Number 13 Tuesday, 6 February 2018. 2021-03-09.
3. https://sfi-edu.s3.amazonaws.com/sfi-edu/production/uploads/people/resumes/2Demuth_CV_111.pdf Curriculum Vitae
4. Web site: Katherine Demuth. 2021-03-09. The Conversation. 21 February 2014 . en.
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6. Web site: Demuth: Research in Language Acquisition. 2021-03-09. www.cog.brown.edu.