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

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. 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

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, and an MA and Ph.D. from

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. 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

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References

External links

Child Language Lab at Brown: Research in language acquisition
{{DEFAULTSORT:Demuth, Katherine Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American 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 Bloomington alumni Brown University faculty Academic staff of Macquarie University American women linguists