Katherine Demuth

{{short description|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.{{Cite web|title=Academy Fellow: Katherine Demuth|url=https://socialsciences.org.au/academy-fellow/?sId=0032v000033l9TNAAY|access-date=2023-02-11|website=Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia|language=en-AU}} She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales in February 2018,{{cite web|url=https://gazette.legislation.nsw.gov.au/so/download.w3p?id=Gazette_2018_2018-13.pdf|title=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|accessdate=2021-03-09|archive-date=10 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180610070913/https://gazette.legislation.nsw.gov.au/so/download.w3p?id=Gazette_2018_2018-13.pdf|url-status=dead}} 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, and an MA and Ph.D. from Indiana University Bloomington.[https://sfi-edu.s3.amazonaws.com/sfi-edu/production/uploads/people/resumes/2Demuth_CV_111.pdf Curriculum Vitae]

Her early works included work on Bantu languages.{{Cite Q|Q47345822}}{{Cite Q|Q46872669}}{{Cite Q|Q57262108}}{{Cite Q|Q105439818}} At Macquarie University's Child Language Laboratory she and her team study language acquisition and development in children (including the hearing impaired,{{cite Q|Q104105622}}{{Cite Q|Q101362550}} Mandarin-speaking children,{{Cite web|title=Katherine Demuth|url=https://theconversation.com/profiles/katherine-demuth-117422|access-date=2021-03-09|website=The Conversation|date=21 February 2014 |language=en}} those with mothers suffering depression,{{Cite Q|Q104478316|doi-access=free}}{{Cite Q|Q98193696}} and indigenous children{{cite Q|Q90672867}}) and continue her work on child language acquisition from Brown University.{{Cite web|title=Demuth: Research in Language Acquisition|url=http://www.cog.brown.edu/people/demuth/research_acqu.htm|access-date=2021-03-09|website=www.cog.brown.edu}}

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