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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. (Primary Chief Investigator), Kruger, J.-L. (Chief Investigator), Boisvert, I. (Chief Investigator), Pachman, M. (Chief Investigator), Kotze, H. (Chief Investigator), Blythe, J. (Chief Investigator), Benders, T. (Chief Investigator), Fang, J. (Chief Investigator), Badcock, N. (Chief Investigator), Brooks, K. (Chief Investigator), Caruana, N. (Chief Investigator) & Mitchison, D. (Chief Investigator)
1/01/17 → …
Project: Research
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CLaS: Centre for Language Sciences (CLaS) - MQRC 2019
Demuth, K. (Primary Chief Investigator), Thornton, R. (Chief Investigator), Cupples, L. (Chief Investigator), Cox, F. (Chief Investigator), Crain, S. (Chief Investigator), Johnson, M. (Chief Investigator), Leigh, G. (Chief Investigator), Sharma, M. (Chief Investigator), Sowman, P. (Chief Investigator), Proctor, M. (Associate Investigator), Wang, X. (Associate Investigator), Benders, T. (Associate Investigator), Giblin, I. (Associate Investigator), Kim, J.-H. (Associate Investigator), Kung, C. (Associate Investigator), Szakay, A. (Associate Investigator), Xu Rattanasone, N. (Associate Investigator) & Yuen, I. (Associate Investigator)
1/01/19 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
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AusKidTalk: An Australian Children's Speech Corpus
Ahmed, B. (Chief Investigator), Ballard, K. J. (Chief Investigator), Burnham, D. K. (Chief Investigator), Epps, J. R. (Chief Investigator), Cox, F. (Primary Chief Investigator), Sethu, V. (Chief Investigator), Demuth, K. (Chief Investigator), Arciuli, J. (Chief Investigator), Kelly, B. (Chief Investigator), Diskin, C. (Chief Investigator), Benders, T. (Chief Investigator), Beng Lee, C. (Chief Investigator), Ambikairajah, E. (Chief Investigator) & Baker, E. (Chief Investigator)
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. (Primary Chief Investigator), Demuth, K. (Chief Investigator), Castles, A. (Chief Investigator), Cox, F. (Chief Investigator), Sharma, M. (Chief Investigator), Proctor, M. (Chief Investigator), Kotze, H. (Chief Investigator), Kim, J.-H. (Chief Investigator), Xu Rattanasone, N. (Chief Investigator), Bruggeman, L. (Chief Investigator), Giblin, I. (Chief Investigator), Castro-Meneses, L. (Chief Investigator) & Yu, L. (Chief Investigator)
1/01/18 → 31/12/18
Project: Research
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Research Outputs
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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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Exploring the nature of multilingual input to infants in multiple caregiver families in an African city: the case of Accra (Ghana)
Omane, P. O., Benders, T. & Boll-Avetisyan, N., Apr 2025, In: Cognitive Development. 74, p. 1-18 18 p., 101558.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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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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The acquisition of plain-emphatic consonant contrasts by Arabic-speaking children: an acoustic study
Alkhudidi, A., Holt, R., Szalay, T., Demuth, K. & Benders, T., Sept 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Child Language. 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access