Katherine Demuth is an American professor of linguistics and the director of the Child Language Lab at

Macquarie University Macquarie University ( ) is a public research university based in Sydney, Australia, in the suburb of Macquarie Park. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of S ...

. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales in February 2018, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (FSSA).

Education and career

She earned a BA from

University of New Mexico The University of New Mexico (UNM; es, Universidad de Nuevo México) is a public research university in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Founded in 1889, it is the state's flagship academic institution and the largest by enrollment, with over 25,400 ...

, and an MA and Ph.D. from

Indiana University Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana. Campuses Indiana University has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IUPUI. *Indiana Universit ...

. 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, those with mothers suffering depression, and indigenous children) and continue her work on child language acquisition from

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

References

External links

Child Language Lab at Brown: Research in language acquisition
{{DEFAULTSORT:Demuth, Katherine Living people 21st-century linguists Fellows of the Royal Society of New South Wales Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia University of New Mexico alumni Indiana University alumni Brown University faculty Macquarie University faculty Women linguists Year of birth missing (living people)