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Personal profile
Research engagement
Research Focus
- Emergent Language and Literacy Skills
- Bilingualism
- Hearing Loss
Biography
I am a Senior Lecturer, the Director of Research Training and the Child Language Lab, and the research lead on the Communications stream at the Macquarie University Hearing Research Centre, Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University.
My research is focused on the language and emerging literacy development of young bilingual children and those with hearing loss. My work has direct implications for school readiness and atypical language development.
Research Funding
My work has been supported by funding from the NSW Department of Education, the Australian Research Council, the National Health and Medical Research Council, and philanthropic sources. I have participated in a range of multidisciplinary research, including the Hearing Cooperative Research Centre and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders.
Teaching and Research Supervision
I teach across both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. I'm currently teaching Language Acquisition in undergraduate Speech and Hearing Sciences and evidence-based practice and student research project units in the postgraduate Master of Clinical Audiology program.
I supervise PhD students working on bilingualism or hearing loss, especially those interested in inflectional morphology, lexical tone, and cognitive development.
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Linguistic approaches to bilingualism
Xu Rattanasone, N. (Primary Chief Investigator), Kim, J.-H. (Primary Chief Investigator) & Tang, P. (Primary Chief Investigator)
1/01/22 → …
Project: Research
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Enhancing the learning of children from diverse language backgrounds: Building Australian evidence on bilingual education in the early years
Xu Rattanasone, N. (Primary Chief Investigator), Kim, J.-H. (Chief Investigator), Ollerhead, S. (Chief Investigator), Barnes, S. (Chief Investigator) & Wyver, S. (Chief Investigator)
16/03/21 → 1/03/23
Project: Research
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UoW Led: Development and evaluation of a novel early language assessment tool to identify vulnerable children who would benefit from referral to Allied Health pathways
Howard, S. (Chief Investigator), Neilsen-Hewett, C. (Chief Investigator), Melhuish, E. (Chief Investigator), Xu Rattanasone, N. (Primary Chief Investigator), Fasher, M. (Chief Investigator), Litherland, E. (Chief Investigator), de Rosnay, M. (Chief Investigator), McLoughlin, J. (Associate Investigator) & Geddes, M. (Associate Investigator)
1/01/21 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
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Multilingualism Research Centre
Benson, P. (Primary Chief Investigator), Barnes, S. (Chief Investigator), Blythe, J. (Chief Investigator), Burridge, A. (Primary Chief Investigator), Chang, M. (Chief Investigator), Chappell, P. (Chief Investigator), Chik, A. (Chief Investigator), Chu, H. E. (Chief Investigator), Djonov, E. (Chief Investigator), Evans, T. (Primary Chief Investigator), Falloon, G. (Chief Investigator), Forrest, J. (Chief Investigator), Garde, U. (Primary Chief Investigator), Gorfinkel, L. (Chief Investigator), Guo, S. (Chief Investigator), Hanley, J. (Primary Chief Investigator), Keith, S. (Chief Investigator), Kruger, J.-L. (Primary Chief Investigator), Kim, J.-H. (Chief Investigator), Li, P. (Chief Investigator), Moloney, R. (Chief Investigator), Murray, J. (Primary Chief Investigator), Ollerhead, S. (Chief Investigator), Orlando, M. (Primary Chief Investigator), Parr, N. (Chief Investigator), Roger, P. (Chief Investigator), Xu Rattanasone, N. (Primary Chief Investigator), Svetanant, C. (Primary Chief Investigator) & Yates, L. (Chief Investigator)
1/07/19 → 30/06/22
Project: Research
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Improving Child Hearing Health in China: Assessing Tone Acquisition by Children with Cochlear Implants
Xu Rattanasone, N. (Primary Chief Investigator), Tang, P. (Chief Investigator), Liquan, G. (Partner Investigator) & Gu, W. (Partner Investigator)
1/01/19 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
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Due to increased variability, the expanded vowel and tone space in Mandarin IDS does not lead to enhanced contrasts
Tang, P., Rattanasone, N. X., Yuen, I., Demuth, K. & Benders, T., 28 Mar 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Child Language. 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Investigating the effects of speaking rate on spoken language processing in children who are deaf and hard of hearing
Abrahamse, R., Benders, T., Demuth, K. & Rattanasone, N. X., 5 Jun 2025, In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 68, 6, p. 2959–2977 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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"Panda" or "Bear, cat": Mandarin-speaking preschoolers use duration and pitch to distinguish compounds and lists
Xu, F., Tang, P., Demuth, K. & Rattanasone, N. X., 22 Apr 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Child Language. 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Real-time spoken word recognition in deaf and hard of hearing preschoolers: effects of phonological competition
Abrahamse, R., Rattanasone, N. X., Holt, R., Demuth, K. & Benders, T., 5 Mar 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Child Language. 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Spoken language processing in noise by deaf and hard of hearing children: effects of speaking rate
Abrahamse, R., Holt, R., Rattanasone, N. X., Benders, T., Buchholz, J. M. & Demuth, K., Dec 2025, In: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 158, 6, p. 4466–4478 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Impacts
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A multicultural Australia is a multilingual Australia.
Chik, A. (Participant), Xu Rattanasone, N. (Participant), Hanley, J. (Participant), Orlando, M. (Participant), Kruger, J.-L. (Participant), Ollerhead, S. (Participant) & Svetanant, C. (Participant)
Impact: Policy impacts