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Personal profile
Biography
As of 2022, Titia Benders has taken up an Assistant Professor position at the University of Amsterdam, where she continues her work into Child Language Acquisition, specifically developing phonological representations at the interface between perception, production, and input (infant-directed speech).
Titia Benders remains connected to Macquarie University as Honorary Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, co-supervisor of several PhD projects (Anwar Alkhudidi, Elise Tobin, Paul Omane, and Mareike Sahling), and lead investigator of the ARC DP The Perception/Production link in Child Language (together with Prof. Katherine Demuth, Dr. Nicole Altvater-Mackensen, and senior research officer Margaret Ryan).
During her time at Macquarie, she was Deputy-Director of the Child Language Lab member of the Phonetics and Phonology Lab, and the Centre for Language Sciences (CLaS).
External positions
Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam
1 Jan 2022 → …
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Mobile Eyetracking Laboratory
Halbert, C., Kruger, J., Boisvert, I., Pachman, M., Kotze, H., Blythe, J., Benders, T., Fang, J., Badcock, N., Brooks, K., Caruana, N. & Mitchison, D.
1/01/17 → …
Project: Research
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CLaS: Centre for Language Sciences (CLaS) - MQRC 2019
Demuth, K., Thornton, R., Cupples, L., Cox, F., Crain, S., Johnson, M., Leigh, G., Sharma, M., Sowman, P., Proctor, M., Wang, X., Benders, T., Giblin, I., Kim, J., Kung, C., Szakay, A., Xu Rattanasone, N. & Yuen, I.
1/01/19 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
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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, T., Beng Lee, C., Ambikairajah, E. & Baker, E.
1/01/19 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
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MQRIS Small: Child-friendly mobile eye-trackers to take hearing, language, and literacy research to new populations and environments
Benders, T., Demuth, K., Castles, A., Cox, F., Sharma, M., Proctor, M., Kotze, H., Kim, J., Xu Rattanasone, N., Bruggeman, L., Giblin, I., Castro-Meneses, L. & Yu, L.
1/01/18 → 31/12/18
Project: Research
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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
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Computational modelling of language acquisition: an introduction
Benders, T. & Blom, E., Nov 2023, In: Journal of Child Language. 50, 6, p. 1287–1293 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
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Diversifying language acquisition research can be (partly) achieved in urban societies and with simplified methodologies: insights from multilingual Ghana
Omane, P. O., Benders, T., Duah, R. A. & Boll-Avetisyan, N., May 2023, In: Journal of Child Language. 50, 3, p. 532–536 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/opinion
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Experimental methods to study child language
Benders, T., Rattanasone, N. X., Thornton, R., Mulders, I. & Koring, L., 2023, The Routledge handbook of experimental linguistics. Zufferey, S. & Gygax, P. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Taylor and Francis, p. 375-389 15 p. (Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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The relationship between pitch contours in infant-directed speech and early signs of autism in infancy
Woolard, A., Benders, T., Campbell, L. E., Whalen, O. M., Mallise, C., Karayanidis, F., Barker, D., Murphy, V. E., Tait, J., Gibson, P., Korostenski, L. & Lane, A. E., Aug 2023, In: Infant Behavior and Development. 72, p. 1-13 13 p., 101860.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Towards diversifying early language development research: the first truly global international summer/winter school on language acquisition (/L+/) 2021
Aravena-Bravo, P., Cristia, A., Garcia, R., Kotera, H., Nicolas, R. K., Laranjo, R., Arokoyo, B. E., Benavides-Varela, S., Benders, T., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Cychosz, M., Ben, R. D., Diop, Y., Durán-Urzúa, C., Havron, N., Manalili, M., Narasimhan, B., Omane, P. O., Rowland, C., Kolberg, L. S., & 4 others , 28 Jul 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Cognition and Development. 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus)