Katherine Demuth
American linguist & academic
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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]
- Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales (2017)
- Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (2015)
- Australian Laureate Fellowship (2013)
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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.[4][5][6][7] At Macquarie University's Child Language Laboratory she and her team study language acquisition and development in children (including the hearing impaired,[8][9] Mandarin-speaking children,[10] those with mothers suffering depression,[11][12] and indigenous children[9][13]) and continue her work on child language acquisition from Brown University.[14]