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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]
She earned a BA from University of New Mexico, and an MA and Ph.D. from Indiana University.[1]
Her early works included work on Bantu languages.[3][4][5][6] At Macquarie University's Child Language Laboratory she and her team study language acquisition and development in children (including the hearing impaired,[7][8] Mandarin-speaking children,[9] those with mothers suffering depression,[10][11] and indigenous children[8][12]) and continue her work on child language acquisition from Brown University.[13]