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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 2017
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
Speech Perception
Appointments and Schedules
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 Output 2009 2017
An evidence accumulation model of acoustic cue weighting in vowel perception
Tillman, G., Benders, T., Brown, S. D. & Ravenzwaaij, D. V. 1 Mar 2017 In : Journal of Phonetics. 61, p. 1-12 12 p.Research output: Research - peer-review › Article
weighting
Acoustics
listener
acoustics
Cues
Heritage language exposure impacts voice onset time of Dutch–German simultaneous bilingual preschoolers*
STOEHR, A. N. T. J. E., BENDERS, T. I. T. I. A., VAN HELL, J. A. N. E. T. G. & FIKKERT, P. A. U. L. A. 22 Jun 2017 (Accepted/In press) In : Bilingualism. p. 1-20 20 p.Research output: Research - peer-review › Article
language
Language
Preschoolers
Voice Onset Time
Heritage Language
Second language attainment and first language attrition: the case of VOT in immersed Dutch–German late bilinguals
Stoehr, A., Benders, T., van Hell, J. G. & Fikkert, P. Oct 2017 In : Second Language Research. 33, 4, p. 483-518 36 p.Research output: Research - peer-review › Article
Open Access
File
language
Group
linguistics
phonetics
Netherlands
Six-month-old infants prefer speech with raised formant frequencies
Benders, T. 2017 In : Infancy. 22, 6, p. 778-789 12 p.Research output: Research - peer-review › Article
Acoustics
Disambiguation of Australian English vowels
Szalay, T., Benders, T., Cox, F. & Proctor, M. 2016 Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. Carignan, C. & Tyler, M. D. (eds.). Canberra, ACT: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA), p. 73-76 4 p. (Proceedings of the Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology)Research output: Research - peer-review › Conference proceeding contribution
Phonetics
Population Groups
Reaction Time