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Katherine Demuth

Katherine Demuth

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
54
Citations
11787
World Ranking
2159
National Ranking
159

Overview

Katherine Demuth is affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia. Their research spans multiple fields and subfields, concentrating primarily on areas related to psychology and neuroscience. With over sixty publications in psychology and more than twenty in neuroscience, their work notably intersects developmental and educational psychology as well as cognitive neuroscience.

Their research topics include language development and disorders, hearing loss and rehabilitation, phonetics and phonology research, hearing impairment and communication, reading and literacy development, linguistic variation and morphology, and neurobiology of language and bilingualism.

Among their recent publications are:

  • The Acquisition of Sesotho, 2022, Psychology Press eBooks
  • Child-directed and overheard input from different speakers in two distinct cultures, 2021, Journal of Child Language
  • Children with hearing loss can predict during sentence processing, 2021, Cognition
  • Depression and Anxiety in the Postnatal Period: An Examination of Infants' Home Language Environment, Vocalizations, and Expressive Language Abilities, 2020, Child Development
  • Effects of maternal depression on maternal responsiveness and infants' expressive language abilities, 2023, PLoS ONE

Katherine Demuth frequently publishes in various academic journals, including:

  • Journal of Child Language
  • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • Ear and Hearing
  • Language Learning and Development
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Their research collaborations include work with several frequent co-authors, such as Nan Xu Rattanasone, Rebecca Holt, Ivan Yuen, Laurence Bruggeman, and Benjamin Davies.

Best Publications

  • Signal to syntax : bootstrapping from speech to grammar in early acquisition

    James L Morgan;Katherine Demuth

  • Maturation and the Acquisition of the Sesotho Passive

    Katherine Demuth

  • Markedness and the Development of Prosodic Structure

    Katherine Demuth

  • Word-minimality, Epenthesis and Coda Licensing in the Early Acquisition of English

    Katherine Demuth;Jennifer Culbertson;Jennifer Alter

  • The prosodic structure of early words

    Katherine Demuth

  • Language socialization across cultures: Prompting routines in the language socialization of Basotho children

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  • Effects of Type of Agreement Violation and Utterance Position on the Auditory Processing of Subject-Verb Agreement: An ERP Study

    Sithembinkosi Dube;Carmen Kung;Varghese Peter;Jon Brock

  • Subject, topic and Sesotho passive.

    Katherine Demuth

  • Prosodically-conditioned variability in children's production of French determiners

    Katherine Demuth;Annie Tremblay

  • Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society

    Katherine Demuth;Jill Beckman

  • Verb raising and subject inversion in Bantu relatives

    Katherine Demuth;Carolyn Harford

  • Effects of the acoustic properties of infant-directed speech on infant word recognition

    Jae Yung Song;Katherine Demuth;James Morgan

  • Minimal Prosodic Words in Early Phonological Development

    Katherine Demuth;E. Jane Fee

  • Prosodic constraints on the emergence of grammatical morphemes: Crosslinguistic evidence from Germanic and Romance languages

    C. Lleó;K. Demuth

  • Presentational Focus and Thematic Structure in Comparative Bantu

    Katherine Demuth;Sheila Mmusi

  • Signal to Syntax: An Overview

    James L. Morgan;Katherine Demuth

  • Universality Versus Language-Specificity in Listening to Running Speech

    Anne Cutler;Katherine Demuth;James M. McQueen

  • On the 'underspecification' of functional categories in early grammars

    Katherine Demuth

  • Locatives, impersonals and expletives in Sesotho

    Katherine Demuth

  • Acquisition of Sesotho

    Katherine Demuth

  • Asymmetries in the acquisition of word-initial and word-final consonant clusters.

    Cecilia Kirk;Katherine Demuth

  • Phonological constraints on children's production of English third person singular -s.

    Jae Yung Song;Megha Sundara;Katherine Demuth

  • Early syntactic productivity: Evidence from dative shift ☆

    Erin Conwell;Katherine Demuth

  • Bantu noun class systems: Loan word and acquisition evidence of semantic productivity

    K. Demuth

  • The Discovery of Spoken Language

    Katherine Demuth

Frequent Co-Authors

James L. Morgan
James L. Morgan Brown University
Joanne Arciuli
Joanne Arciuli Flinders University
Anne Christophe
Anne Christophe École Normale Supérieure
Denis K Burnham
Denis K Burnham Western Sydney University
James M. McQueen
James M. McQueen Radboud University
Deborah Fein
Deborah Fein University of Connecticut
Letitia R. Naigles
Letitia R. Naigles University of Connecticut
Anne Cutler
Anne Cutler Western Sydney University
Emmanuel Dupoux
Emmanuel Dupoux School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
Michael C. Frank
Michael C. Frank Stanford University

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