Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Titia Benders is a Lecturer in Linguistics and Deputy-Director of the Child Language Lab at Macquarie University. She is also a member of the Macquarie University Phonetics Lab, the Centre for Language Sciences (CLaS) and the Centre of Excellence for Cognition and its Disorders (CCD). Benders investigates developing phonological representations at the interface between perception, production, and input. Her main interest is in language acquisition by children between 6 months and 6 years of age, who acquire one or more languages, without or with hearing loss. A second line of research concerns the linguistic and emotional properties of infant-directed speech by parents (i.e., both mothers and fathers). Benders' work has a strong methodological angle, employing techniques from phonetics, developmental and mathematical psychology, as well as recent statistical insights.
Dr. Benders is interested in receiving enquiries from students who want to join the Child Language Lab, the Phonetics Lab, (or both!) as a volunteer or to pursue a Master of Research or Ph.D.
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Projects 2016 2021
CLaS: Centre for Language Sciences (CLaS) - MQRC 2019
Thornton, R., Cupples, L., Cox, F., Crain, S., Demuth, K., Johnson, M., Leigh, G., Sharma, M., Sowman, P., Proctor, M., Wang, X., Benders, A., Giblin, I., Kim, J., Kung, C., Szakay, A., Xu, N. & Yuen, I.
1/01/19 → 31/12/21
Project: Other
AusKidTalk: An Australian Children's Speech Corpus
Ahmed, B., Ballard, K. J., Burnham, D. K., Epps, J. R., Cox, F., Sethu, V., Demuth, K., Arciuli, J., Kelly, B., Diskin, C., Benders, A., Beng Lee, C., Ambikairajah, E. & Baker, E.
1/01/19 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Mobile Eyetracking Laboratory
Halbert, C., Kruger, J., Boisvert, I., Pachman, M., Kruger, H., Blythe, J., Benders, A., Fang, J., Badcock, N., Brooks, K., Caruana, N. & Mitchison, D.
1/01/17 → …
Project: Research
MQRIS Small: Child-friendly mobile eye-trackers to take hearing, language, and literacy research to new populations and environments
Benders, A., Demuth, K., Castles, A., Cox, F., Sharma, M., Proctor, M., Kruger, H., Kim, J., Xu, N., Bruggeman, L., Giblin, I., Castro-Meneses, L. & Yu, L.
1/01/18 → 31/12/18
Project: Research
What's a "banana" without its "ba"? Or: do toddlers' word production errors have a counterpart in word learning
1/01/16 → 31/12/16
Project: Research
Research Outputs 2009 2019
Hypo-articulation of the four-way voicing contrast in Nepali infant-directed speech
Benders, T., Pokharel, S. & Demuth, K., 2019, In : Language Learning and Development. 15, 3, p. 232-254 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
infant
speaking
Articulation
Infant-directed Speech
Voicing
Speech perception and discrimination: from sounds to words
Junge, C., Boll-Avetisyan, N. & Benders, T., May 2019, International handbook of language acquisition. Horst, J. S. & von Koss Torkildsen, J. (eds.). New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, p. 153-172 20 p. (Routledge International Handbooks).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
Before the word: acquiring a phoneme inventory
Benders, T. & Altvater-Mackensen, N., 2018, Early word learning. Westermann, G. & Mani, N. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Taylor & Francis, p. 1-14 14 p. (Current issues in developmental psychology).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
Speech Perception
Language Development
Child Language
Equipment and Supplies
Learning
Heritage language exposure impacts voice onset time of Dutch–German simultaneous bilingual preschoolers
Stoehr, A., Benders, T., Van Hell, J. G. & Fikkert, P., May 2018, In : Bilingualism. 21, 3, p. 598-617 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access
File
language
Language
Preschoolers
Voice Onset Time
Heritage Language
Infants’ sensitivity to rhyme in songs
Hahn, L. E., Benders, T., Snijders, T. M. & Fikkert, P., Aug 2018, In : Infant Behavior and Development. 52, p. 130-139 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Music