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
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
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 2019
Hypo-articulation of the four-way voicing contrast in Nepali infant-directed speech
Benders, T., Pokharel, S. & Demuth, K., 27 Feb 2019, In : Language Learning and Development.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
infant
speaking
Articulation
Infant-directed Speech
Voicing
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
Production and perception of length contrast in lateral-final rimes
Szalay, T., Benders, T., Cox, F. & Proctor, M., 2018, Proceedings of the 17th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. Epps, J., Wolfe, J., Smith, J. & Jones, C. (eds.). Canberra, ACT.: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA), p. 129-132 4 p. (Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › Research › peer-review
Open Access
Recognition (Psychology)