Katherine Demuth
Katherine Demuth is an American professor of linguistics and the director of the Child Language Lab at Macquarie University. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales in February 2018, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.
Education and career
She earned a BA from University of New Mexico, and an MA and Ph.D. from Indiana University Bloomington.Her early works included work on Bantu languages. At Macquarie University's Child Language Laboratory she and her team study language acquisition and development in children and continue her work on child language acquisition from Brown University.