Publications

Research in language acquisition 2018-present

2020

Snijders, T., Benders, T., & Fikkert, P. (2020). Infants segment words from songs--An EEG study. Brain Sciences, 10(39). https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10010039

Davies, B., Xu Rattanasone, N. & Demuth, K. (in press). Comprehension of the copula: Pre-schoolers (and sometimes adults) ignore subject-verb agreement during sentence processing. Journal of Child Language. (published online November 11, 2019).

Demuth, K. (in press). Perception, production, and individual differences. In Janet Werker Special Issue of Applied Psycholinguistics. doi:10.1017/S0142716418000176

Davies, B., Xu Rattanasone, N., Davis, A., & Demuth, K. (2020). The acquisition or productive plural morphology by children with hearing loss. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research. 63, 552-568. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_JSLHR-19-00208

Demuth, K. & Johnson, M. (2020). Exemplar-based learning probably requires learning abstractions. First Language. Special Issue: Against stored abstractions:A radical exemplar model of language acquisition 1-3. doi.org/10.1177/0142723720903609.

Davies, B., Xu Rattanasone, N., & Demuth, K. (2020). Acquiring the last plural: Morphophonological effects on the comprehension of /‑əz/. Language Learning and Development, 16, 161-179. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2020.1717956

Sharma, M., Wigglesworth, G., Savage, G. & Demuth, K. (2020). Binaural processing and phonological awareness in Australian Indigenous children from the Northern Territory: A community based study. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 128, 109702.

2019

Benders, T., Pokharel, S., & Demuth, K. (2019). Hypo-Articulation of the Four-Way Voicing Contrast in Nepali Infant-Directed Speech. Language Learning and Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2019.1577139

Colliver, Y., Hatzigianni, M., & Davies, B. (2019). Why can’t I find quality apps for my child? A model to understand all stakeholders’ perspectives’ on quality learning through digital play. Early Child Development and Care. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004430.2019.1596901

Davies, B., Xu Rattanasone, N., Schembri, T., & Demuth, K. (2019). Preschoolers’ developing comprehension of the plural: the effects of number and allomorphic variation. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 185, 95-108. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2019.04.015

Demuth, K. (2019). Prosodic constraints on children’s variable use of grammatical morphemes. In Special Issue, The relationship of grammatical words and syntactic structure in young children’s language development, (A. Ninio, Ed.), First Language, 39(1) 80–95.

Demuth, K. (2019). Perception, production, and individual differences. In Janet Werker Special Issue of Applied Psycholinguistics. doi:10.1017/S0142716418000176

Demuth, K. (2019). Prosodic constraints on children's use of grammatical morphemes. First Language, 39(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/0142723717751984

Denman, D., Kim, J-H., Munro, N., Speyer, R., & Cordier, R. (2019). Describing language assessments for school-aged children: a Delphi study. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2018.1552716

Dube, S., Kung, C., Brock, J. & Demuth, K. (2019). Perceptual salience and the processing of subject-verb agreement in 9-11-year-old English-speaking children: Evidence from ERPs. Language Acquisition. doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2017.1394305

Hussain, Q., Proctor, M., Harvey, M., & Demuth, K. (2019). Punjabi (Lyallpuri variety). Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1-16. doi:10.1017/S0025100319000021

Tang, P., Yuen, I., Xu Rattanasone, N., Gao, L., & Demuth, K. (2019). Acquisition of weak syllables in tonal languages: Acoustic evidence from neutral tone in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Child Language. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000918000296

Tang, P., Xu Rattanasone, N., Yuen, I., Gao, L., & Demuth, K. (2019). The acquisition of Mandarin tonal processes by children with cochlear implants. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research. https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_JSLHR-S-18-0304

Tang, P., Xu Rattanasone, N., Yuen, I., Gao, L., & Demuth, K. (2019). The development of abstract representations of tone sandhi. Developmental Psychology, 55(10), 2114-2122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0000781

2018

Benders, T. & Altvater-Mackensen, N. (2018). Before the Word. In Early word learning. Westermann, G. & Mani, N. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Taylor & Francis, p. 1-14 14 p. (Current issues in developmental psychology). doi:10.4324/9781315730974

Demuth, K. (2018). Perception, production, and individual differences. In Janet Werker Special Issue of Applied Psycholinguistics. doi:10.1017/S0142716418000176

Demuth, K. (2018). The development of prosodic phonology. In Rueschemeyer, S-A. & Gaskell, G. (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics, Oxford University Press.

Demuth, K. (2018). Prosodic constraints on children’s use of grammatical morphemes. In Special Issue, The relationship of grammatical words and syntactic structure in young children’s language development, (A. Ninio ed.), First Language. doi: 10.1177/0142723717751984

Demuth, K. (2018). Understanding the development of prosodic words: the role of the lexicon. In Prieto, P. & Esteve-Gibert, N. (eds.), The development of prosody in first language acquisition, pp. 207-224. TiLAR 23. Mouton de Gruyter. doi.org/10.1075/tilar.23.11dem

Hahn, L., Benders, T., Snijders, T., Fikkert, P. (2018). Infants' sensitivity to rhyme in songs. Infant Behavior and Development, 52, 130-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2018.07.002

Holt, R., Kung, C., Demuth, K. (2018). Listener characteristics modulate the semantic processing of native vs. foreign-accented speech. PLoS ONE 13(12): e0207452. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207452

Jones, C., Sharma, M., Harkus, S., McMahon, C., Taumoepeau, M., Demuth, K., Mattock, K., Rosas, L., Wing, R., Pawar, S., Hampshire, A. 2018. A program to respond to otitis media in remote Australian Aboriginal communities: a qualitative investigation of caregiver perspectives. BMC Pediatrics, 18, 99. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-018-1081-3

Mathew, M., Yuen, I., & Demuth, K. (2018). Talking to the beat:  six-year-olds' use of stroke-defined non-referential gestures. First Language.  doi: 10.1177/0142723717734949

Ren, Y., Xu Rattanasone, N., Demuth, K., Andronos, F., & Wyver, S. (2018). Relationships between proficiency with grammatical morphemes and emotion regulation: A study of Mandarin–English preschoolers. Early Child Development and Care, 188, 1055-1062. doi:10.1080/03004430.2016.1245189

Song, J.Y., Demuth, K., & Morgan, J. L. (2018). Input and processing factors affecting infants’ vocabulary size at 19 and 25 months. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02398

Xu Rattanasone, N., Tang, P., Yuen, I., Gao, L., & Demuth, K. (2018). Five-year-olds’ realization of Mandarin tone sandhi and lexical tones in context are not yet fully adult-like. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 817. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00817

Yuen, I., Cox, F., & Demuth, K. (2018). Prosodic effects on the planning of inserted /ɹ/ in Australian English. Journal of Phonetics, 69, 29–42. doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2018.04.003

Research in language acquisition 2013-2017

2017

Benders, T. (2017). Six-Month-Old Infants Prefer Speech with Raised Formant Frequencies. Infancy. 1-12. doi:10.1111/infa.12190

Cowan, R., Ching, T., Van Dun, B., Zhang, V., Wong, C. Bardy, F., Sharma, M., Ranee, G., Chisari, D., Zanin, J., Van Buynder, T., Burns, L., Button, L., Xu, N., Demuth, K., Dillon, H. (2017). Evaluating auditory discrimination in infants using visual reinforcement infant speech discrimination (VRISD) and the acoustic change complex (ACC), Journal of Hearing Science, 7, 57.

Chen, H., Xu Rattanasone, N., Cox, F., & Demuth, K. (2017). Effect of early dialectal exposure on adult perception of phonemic vowel length. JASA, 142, 1707–1716. doi: 10.1121/1.4995994

Davies, B., Xu Rattanasone, N., & Demuth, K. (2017). Two-year-olds’ sensitivity to inflectional plural morphology: allomorphic effects. Language, Learning and Development, 13,38-53. doi/full/10.1080/15475441.2016.1219257

Holt, C. M., Yuen, I., & Demuth, K. (2017). Discourse strategies and the production of prosody by prelingually deaf adolescent cochlear implant users. Ear & Hearing, 38(2),e101-e108. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000000362

Hussain, Q., Proctor, M., Harvey, M. & Demuth, K. (2017). Acoustic characteristics of Punjabi retroflex and dental stops. JASA, 141, 4522-4542. doi: 10.1121/1.4984595

Jones, C., Demuth, K., Li, W., & Almeida, A. (2017). Vowels in the Barunga Variety of North Australian Kriol. Proc. Interspeech 2017, 219-223.

Tang, P., Xu Rattanasone, N., Yuen, I., & Demuth, K. (2017). Acoustic realization of Mandarin neutral tone and tone sandhi in infant-directed speech and Lombard speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 142(5), 2823-2835. doi:10.1121/1.5008372

Tang, P., Xu Rattanasone, N., Yuen, I., & Demuth, K. (2017). Phonetic enhancement of Mandarin vowels and tones: Infant-directed speech and Lombard speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 142, 493-503. doi: 10.1121/1.4995998

Tomas, E., Demuth, K., & Petocz, P. (2017). The role of frequency in learning morphophonological alternations: Implications for children with Specific Language Impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60, 1316-1329.

Tomas, E., van de Vijver, R., Demuth, K. &  Petocz, P.  (2017). Acquisition of nominal morphophonological alternations in Russian. First Language. 1-22. doi: 10.1177/0142723717698839.

Yuen, I., Cox, F., & Demuth, K.  (2017). Planning of hiatus-breaking inserted /ɹ/ in the speech of Australian English-speaking children. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 60, 826-835. 1-10. doi/10.1044/2016_JSLHR-S-16-0085

2016

Auton, J., Wiggins, M.W., Searle, B.J., & Xu Rattanasone, N. (2016). Utilization of prosodic and linguistic cues during perceptions of nonunderstandings in radio communication Applied Psycholinguistics, 1-31. doi.org/10.1017/S014271641600031X

Davies, B., Xu Rattanasone, N., & Demuth, K. (2016). The effects of allomorphic variation on children's acquisition of plural morphology. In C. Carignan, & M.D. Tyler (eds.), Proceedings of the 16th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 101). Sydney: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Assoc.

Demuth, K. & Tomas, E. (2016). Understanding the contributions of prosodic phonology to morphological development: Implications for children with SLI. First Language, 36, 265-278. doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2016.1219257

Dube, S., Kung, C., Peter, V., Brock, J., & Demuth, K. (2016). Effects of type of agreement violation and utterance position on the auditory processing of subject-verb agreement: An ERP study.  Frontiers in Psychology,7,1-11. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01276.

Holt, C.M., Demuth, K., & Yuen, I. (2016). The use of prosodic cues in sentence processing by prelingually deaf users of cochlear implants. Ear & Hearing, 37(4), e256-e262. doi:10.1097/AUD.0000000000000253.

Miles, K., Yuen, I., Cox, F., & Demuth, K. (2016). The prosodic licensing of coda consonants in early speech: interactions with vowel length. Journal of Child Language, 43(2), 265-283. doi.org/10.1017/S0305000915000185

Naigles, L., Cheng, M., Rattanasone Xu, N., Tek, S., Khetrapal, N., Fein, D., & Demuth, K. (2016). "You're telling me!" Prevalence and predictors of pronoun reversals in children with ASD and typical development. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 27, 11-20. doi: 10.1016/j.rasd.2016.03.008

Ren, Y., Xu Rattanasone, N., Demuth, K., Andronos, F., & Wyver, S. (2016). Relationships between proficiency with grammatical morphemes and emotion regulation: a study of Mandarin-English preschoolers. Early Child Development and Care, 1-8. doi:10.1080/03004430.2016.1245189

Ren, Y., Wyver, S., Xu Rattanasone, N., & Demuth, K. (2016). Social competence and language skills in Mandarin-English bilingual preschoolers: The moderation effect of emotion regulation. Early Education and Development, 27(3), 303-317. doi: 10.1080/10409289.2015.1066639.

Ren, Y., Xu Rattanasone, N., Wyver, S., Hinton, A., & Demuth, K. (2016). Interpretations of errors made by Mandarin-speaking children on the Preschool Language Scales - 5th Edition Screening Test. Australian Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology, 15, 24-34.

Xu Rattanasone, N., Tang, P., & Demuth, K. (2016). 3-year olds produce pitch contours consistent with Mandarin Tone 3 Sandhi. In C. Carignan, & M.D. Tyler (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 5). Sydney: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Assoc.

Xu Rattanasone, N., Davies, B., Schembri, T., Andronos, F., & Demuth, K. (2016). The iPad as a Research Tool for the Understanding of English Plurals by English, Chinese and Other L1 Speaking 3-and 4-year-olds. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1-11. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01773

Vasuki, P. R. M., Sharma, M., Demuth, K., & Arciuli, J. (2016). Musicians' edge: a comparison of auditory processing, cognitive abilities and statistical learning. Hearing Research, 1-2

Yuen, I., Xu Rattanasone, N., Schmidt, E., Macdonald, G., Holt, R., & Demuth, K. (2016). Accentual lengthening in 5-year-old AusE-speaking children: Preliminary results. In C. Carignan, & M.D. Tyler (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 21). Sydney: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Assoc.

Yuen, I., Cox, F., Demuth, K. (2016). Planning of hiatus breaking inserted 'r' in the speech of Australian English-speaking children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

2015

Ching, T. Y. C., Rattanasone Xu, N., Macdonald, G., Zhang, W. V., Button, L., & Demuth, K. (2015). Intelligibility of speech produced by children with hearing loss: conventional amplification versus nonlinear frequency compression in hearing aids. Journal of Communication Disorders, Deaf Studies & Hearing Aids, 3(3), 100-135.

Demuth, K. (2015). The acquisition of prosodic phonology and morphology. In E. Bavin & L. Naigles (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language, pp.230-249. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Demuth, K., Dube, S., Miles, K. & Tomas, E. (2015). Morphology. In S. McLeod & J. McCormack (Eds.), Introduction to Speech, Language and Literacy, pp.231-265. South Melbourne, VIC: Oxford University Press.

Hussain, Q., Harvey, M., Proctor, M., & Demuth, K. (2015). Contrast reduction among coronals is conditioned by the following vowel. In The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (Eds.), Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, UK: University of Glasgow.

Lin, S., & Demuth, K. (2015). Children's acquisition of English onset and coda /l/: Articulatory evidence. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58, 13-27.

Mealings, K. T., Dillon, H., Buchholz, J. M., & Demuth, K. (2015). An assessment of open plan and enclosed classroom listening environments for young children: Part 1 - Children's questionnaires. Journal of Educational, Pediatric & (Re)Habilitative Audiology,21, 1-17.

Mealings, K. T., Demuth, K., Buchholz, J. M., & Dillon, H. (2015). An assessment of open plan and enclosed classroom listening environments for young children: Part 2 - Teachers' questionnaires. Journal of Educational, Pediatric & (Re)Habilitative Audiology,21, 1-19.

Mealings, K. T., Demuth, K., Buchholz, J., & Dillon, H. (2015). An assessment of different sized open plan and enclosed Kindergarten classroom listening environments. In Proceedings of Acoustics 2015 Hunter Valley: Annual Conference of the Australian Acoustical Society, paper 95. Kessissoglou, N., and Doolan, C. (Eds.), The Australian Acoustical Society: Australia.

Mealings, K. T., Buchholz, J., Demuth, K., & Dillon, H. (2015). An investigation into the acoustics of different sized open plan and enclosed Kindergarten classrooms. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137(4), 2392-2392.

Mealings, K. T., Demuth, K., Buchholz, J., & Dillon, H. (2015). An investigation into how the acoustics of different sized open plan classrooms affects speech perception in Kindergarten children. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137, 2433-2433. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4931903

Mealings, K. T., Buchholz, J. M., Demuth, K., & Dillon, H. (2015). Investigating the acoustics of a sample of open plan and enclosed Kindergarten classrooms in Australia. Applied Acoustics, 100, 95-105.

Mealings, K.T., Demuth, K., Buchholz, J.M., & Dillon, H. (2015). The development of the Mealings, Demuth, Dillon, and Buchholz Classroom Speech Perception Test (MDDB CSPT). Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58, 1350-1362.

Mealings, K.T., Demuth, K., Buchholz, J.M., & Dillon, H. (2015). The effect of different open plan and enclosed classroom acoustic conditions on speech perception in Kindergarten children. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 138(4), 2458-2469

Ren, Y., Wyver, S., Xu Rattanasone, N., & Demuth, K. (2015). Social competence and language skills in Mandarin-English bilingual preschoolers: Moderation effect of emotion regulation. Early Education and Development. doi:10.1080/10409289.2015.1066639

Schmidt, E., Post, B., Kung, C., Yuen, I., & Demuth, K. (2015). The effect of listener and speaker gender on the perception of rises in AusE. In J. Stuart-Smith, J. Scobbie, A. Turk (Eds.) Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow.

Song, J.Y., Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. & Demuth, K. (2015). Development of phonetic variants (allophones) in 2-year-olds learning American English: A study of alveolar stop /t, d/ codas. Journal of Phonetics, 52, 152-169.

Theodore, R., Demuth, K., & Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. (2015). Examination of the locus of positional effects on children's production of plural -s: Considerations from local and global speech planning. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58, 946-953.

Tomas, E., Demuth, K., Smith-Lock, K., & Petocz, P. (2015). Phonological and morphophonological effects on grammatical development in children with Specific Language Impairment. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 50(4), 516-528.

Yuen, I., Cox, F., Demuth, K. (2015). Anticipatory planning of r-insertion in Australian English.  In J. Stuart-Smith, J. Scobbie, A. Turk (Eds.) Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow.

2014

Demuth, K. (2014). Prosodic Licensing and the development of phonological and morphological representations. In A. Farris-Trimble & J. Barlow (Eds.), Perspectives on Phonological Theory and Acquisition: Papers in Honor of Daniel A. Dinnsen (pp. 11-24).  John Benjamins: Language Acquisition and Language Disorders Series, 56.

Johnson, M., Christophe, A., Dupoux, E., & Demuth, K. (2014). Modeling function words improves unsupervised word segmentation. In K. Toutanova & H. Wu (Eds.),Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Vol 1: Long Papers, (pp. 282-292). Stroudsburg: The Association for Computational Linguistics.

Kline, M., & Demuth, K. (2014). Syntactic generalization with novel intransitive verbs. Journal of Child Language, 41, 543-574.

Mealings, K., & Demuth, K. (2014). Cluster reduction and compensatory lengthening in the acquisition of possessive -s. Journal of Child Language, 41, 690-704.

Mealings, K., & Demuth, K. (2014). The role of utterance length and position in three-year-olds' production of third person singular -s. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 57, 484-494.

Mealings, K.T., Demuth, K., Buchholz, J., & Dillon, H. (2014). Investigating the effect of intrusive noise levels on speech perception in an open-plan Kindergarten classroom. In J. Hay and E. Parnell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th Speech Science and Technology Conference (SST) (pp. 228-231).  ASSTA: New Zealand.

Mealings, K.T., Buchholz, J., Demuth, K., & Dillon, H. (2014). An investigation into the acoustics of an open plan compared to enclosed Kindergarten classroom. In J. Davy, C. Don, T. McMinn, L. Dowsett, N. Broner & M. Burgess (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43rd International Congress on Noise Control Engineering (INTERNOISE). Toowong: The Australian Acoustical Society.

Turpin, M., Demuth, K., & Campbell, A.N. (2014). Phonological aspects of Arandic Baby Talk. In R. Pensalfini, M. Turpin, & D. Guillemin (Eds.), . Language Description Informed by Theory (pp. 49-79). John Benjamins: Amsterdam.

Xu Rattanasone, N., & Demuth, K. (2014). The acquisition of coda consonants by Mandarin early child L2 learners of English. Bilingualism: Language & Cognition, 17, 646-659.

Xu, N., & Demuth, K. (2014). The acquisition of linguistic tonal systems. In P. Brooks & V. Kempe (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Language Development, pp.352-353. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications.

Yuen, I., Cox, F., & Demuth, K. (2014). Three-year-olds' production of Australian English phonemic vowel length as a function of prosodic context. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 135, 1469-1479.

Yuen, I., Miles, K., Cox, F., & Demuth, K. (2014). The syllabic status of final consonants in early speech: a case study. Journal of Child Language, 1-13.

Yuen, I., Xu Rattanasone, N., Macdonald, G., Holt, R., and Demuth, K. (2014). Temporal planning in the production of Australian English compounds. In J. Hay & E. Parnell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, (pp. 142-145). Sydney: ASSTA.

2013

Börschinger, B., Johnson, M., & Demuth, K. (2013). A joint model of word segmentation and phonological variation for English word-final /t/-deletion. In Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Vol 1: Long Papers (pp. 1508-1516). Sofia, Bulgaria.

Lin, S., & Demuth, K. (2013). The gradual acquisition of English /l/. In S. Baiz, E. Goldman & R. Hawkes (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 206-218). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Mealings, K., Cox, F., & Demuth, K. (2013). Acoustic investigations into the delayed acquisition of the syllabic -es plural in 2-year-olds' speech . Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 56, 1260-1271.

Song, J.Y., Demuth, K., Shattuck-Hufnagel, S., & Ménard, L. (2013).  The effects of coarticulation and morphological complexity on the production of English coda clusters: Acoustic and articulatory evidence from 2-year-olds and adults using ultrasound. Journal of Phonetics, 41, 281-295.

Song, J.Y., Demuth, K., Evans, K., & Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. (2013). Durational cues to fricative codas in 2-year-olds' American English: Voicing and morphemic factors. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 133, 2931.

Research in language acquisition 2000-2012

2012

Börschinger, B., Demuth, K., Johnson, M. 2012. Studying the effect of input size for Bayesian word segmentation on the Providence Corpus. In M. Kay & C. Boitet (Eds.), Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (pp. 325-340). Mumbai: COLING 2012 Organizing Committee.

Cox, F., Demuth, K., Lin, S., Miles, K., Palethorpe, S., Shaw, J., & Yuen, I. (Eds.) 2012. Proceedings of the 14th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Sydney, Australia, 3-6 December 2012.  Sydney, Australia: Causal Publications.

Miles, K., Demuth, K., & Ching, T. 2012. Acoustic analysis of the speech of a child with hearing aids. In Cox, F., Demuth, K., Lin, S., Miles, K., Palethorpe, S., Shaw, J., and Yuen, I. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th Speech Science and Technology Conference (SST) (pp. 97-100).  Sydney, Australia: Causal Productions.

Mealings, K.T., & Demuth, K. 2012. Two-year-olds' acquisition of the possessive morpheme: An acoustic analysis. In Cox, F., Demuth, K., Lin, S., Miles, K., Palethorpe, S., Shaw, J., and Yuen, I. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th Speech Science and Technology Conference (SST) (pp. 13-16). Sydney, Australia: Causal Productions.

Tomas, E., Demuth, K., & Smith-Lock, K. 2012. Errors of omission and commission in verbal and nominal inflectional morphemes by children with SLI: Phonological effects and acoustic analysis. In Cox, F., Demuth, K., Lin, S., Miles, K., Palethorpe, S., Shaw, J., and Yuen, I. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th Speech Science and Technology Conference (SST) (pp. 101-104). Sydney, Australia: Causal Productions.

Xu, N., & Demuth, K. 2012. Acoustic analysis of English codas by Mandarin learners of English. In Cox, F., Demuth, K., Lin, S., Miles, K., Palethorpe, S., Shaw, J., and Yuen, I. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th Speech Science and Technology Conference (SST) (pp. 41-44). Sydney, Australia: Causal Productions.

Yuen, I., Cox, F., & Demuth, K. 2012. Interaction of vowel length, utterance-position and accent in 3-year olds' Australian English. In Cox, F., Demuth, K., Lin, S., Miles, K., Palethorpe, S., Shaw, J., and Yuen, I. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th Speech Science and Technology Conference (SST) (pp. 17-20). Sydney, Australia: Causal Productions.

Johnson, M., Demuth, K., Frank, M. 2012. Exploiting social information in grounded language learning via grammatical reductions. Proceedings of the 50th annual general meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Vol 1: Long papers (pp. 883-891). South Korea.

Theodore, R., Demuth, K., & Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. 2012. Segmental and positional effects on children's coda production: Comparing evidence from perceptual judgments and acoustic analysis. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics. 26 (9), 755-773.

Demuth, K., Patrolia, M., Song, J.Y., & Masapollo, M. 2012. The development of articles in children's early Spanish: Prosodic interactions between lexical and grammatical form. In J. Rothman & Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes (Eds.), Linguistic interfaces and language acquisition in childhood. First Language, 32(1-2), 17-37.

Demuth, K., & Weschler, S. 2012. The acquisition of Sesotho nominal agreement. Morphology, 21, 67-88.

Song, J.Y., Demuth, K., & Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. 2012. The development of acoustic cues to coda contrasts in young children learning American English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 131(4), 3036-3050.

Evans, K., & Demuth, K. 2012. Individual differences in pronoun reversal: Evidence from two longitudinal case studies. Journal of Child Language, 39, 162-191.

Demuth, K., & Song, J.Y. 2012. How phonological representations develop during first language acquisition.In A.C. Cohn, C. Fougeron, & M. Huffman (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Laboratory Phonology (pp. 397-406). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2011

Demuth, K. 2011. The acquisition of phonology. In J. Goldsmith, Jason Riggle, & Alan Yu (eds.) The Handbook of Phonological Theory pp. 571-595. In J. Goldsmith, J. Riddle, & A. Yu (Eds.), The Handbook of Phonological Theory (pp. 571-595). Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Demuth, K. 2011. Interactions between lexical and phonological development: cross-linguistic and contextual considerations - a commentary on Stoel-Gammon's 'Relationships between lexical and phonological development in young children'. Journal of Child Language, 38, 69-74.

Shattuck-Hufnagel, S., Demuth, K., Hanson, H., & Stevens, K.N. 2011. Acoustic cues to stop-coda voicing contrasts in the speech of American English 2-3-year-olds. In G.N. Clements & R. Ridouane (Eds.), Where do features come from? The nature and sources of phonological primitives. Elsevier: North-Holland Linguistic Series.

Theodore, R., Demuth, K., & Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. 2011. Acoustic evidence for position and complexity effects on childrens production of plural s. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 54(2), 539-548.

Thorson, J. & Demuth, K. 2011. Syllable organization in children’s early American English: Acoustic evidence. JASA 129, 2596.

Sundara, M., Demuth, K., & Kuhl, P. 2011. Sentence-position effects on children's perception and production of English 3rd person singular -s. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 54, 55-71.

Yuen, I., Demuth, K., Johnson, M. 2011. Prosodic Structure in Child Speech Planning and Production. ICPhS XVII (pp. 2248-2251). Hong Kong.

2010

Demuth, K., Moloi, F., & Machobane, M. 2010. Three-year-olds comprehension, production, and generalization of Sesotho passives. Cognition, 115 (2), 238-251.

Johnson, M., Demuth, K., Frank, M., & Jones, B. 2010. Synergies in learning words and their referents. In J. Lafferty, C. K. I. Williams, J. Shawe-Taylor, R.S. Zemel, & A. Culotta (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 23, 1018-1026.

Johnson, M., & Demuth, K. 2010. Unsupervised phonemic Chinese word segmentation using Adaptor Grammars. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010) (pp. 528-536).

Kline, M., & Demuth, K. 2010. Factors facilitating implicit learning: The case of the Sesotho passive. Language Acquisition, 17, 220-234.

Song, J.Y., Demuth, K., & Morgan, J.L. 2010. Effects of the acoustic properties of infant-directed speech on infant word recognition. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 128, 352-363.

Theodore, R., Demuth, K., & Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. 2010. An acoustic examination of the effects of word frequency and utterance position on 2-year-olds' production of 3rd person singular-s. In Proceedings from Speech Science and Technology (SST) 2010 (pp. 158-161). Melbourne: Australia.

2009

Demuth, K. 2009. The prosody of syllables, words and morphemes. In E. Bavin (Ed.), Cambridge Handbook on Child Language (pp. 183-198). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Demuth, K., & Ellis, D. 2009. Revisiting the acquisition of Sesotho noun class prefixes.In J. Guo, E. Lieven, S. Ervin-Tripp, N. Budwig, Seydazçalikan, K. Nakamura (Eds.), Crosslinguistic approaches to the psychology of language: Festschrift for Dan Slobin (pp. 131-148). Lawrence Erlbaum.

Demuth, K., Machobane, M., & Moloi, F. 2009. Learning to license null noun class prefixes in Sesotho. Language, 85, 863-882.

Demuth, K., & McCullough, E. 2009. The acquisition of clusters in French. Journal of Child Language, 36, 425-448.

Demuth, K., & McCullough, E. 2009. The prosodic (re)organization of childrens early English articles. Journal of Child Language, 36, 173-200.

Song, J.Y., Sundara, M., & Demuth, K. 2009. Phonological constraints on childrens production of English 3rd person singular s. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 52(3), 623-642.

2008

Demuth, K. 2008. Review of Deen, Kamil Ud. 2005. The acquisition of Swahili. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 29, 100-102.

Demuth, K. 2008. Exploiting corpora for language acquisition research. In H. Behrens (Ed.), Corpora in Language Acquisition Research: Finding Structure in Data. Trends in Language Acquisition Research (TILAR) Series #6 (pp. 199-205), John Benjamins.

Demuth, K., & Tremblay, A. 2008. Prosodically-conditioned variability in children's production of French determiners. Journal of Child Language, 35, 99-127.

Kehoe, M., Hilaire-Debove, G., Demuth, K., & Lleó, C. 2008. The structure of branching onsets and rising diphthongs: Evidence from the acquisition of French and Spanish. Language Acquisition, 15, 5-57.

Kirk, C. 2008. Substitution Errors in the Production of Word-Initial and Word-Final Consonant Clusters. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 51, 35-48.

Song, J.Y., & Demuth, K. 2008. Compensatory vowel lengthening for omitted coda consonants: A phonetic investigation of childrens early representations of prosodic words. Language & Speech, 51, 382-399.

2007

Conwell, E., & Demuth, K. 2007. Early syntactic productivity: evidence from dative shift. Cognition, 103, 163-179.

Demuth, K. 2007. Acquisition at the prosody-morphology interface. InA. Belikova, L. Meroni, & M. Umeda (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA) (pp. 84-91). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Demuth, K. 2007. The role of frequency in language acquisition. In I. Gülzow & N. Gagarina (Eds.), Frequency effects in language acquisition. Studies on Language Acquisition (SOLA) series (pp. 383-388). Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter.

Demuth, K. 2007. Sesotho speech acquisition. In S. McLeod (Ed.), The international guide to speech acquisition (pp 526-538). Clifton Park, NY: Thomson Delmar Learning.

Demuth, K., McCullough, E., & Adamo, M. 2007. The prosodic (re)organization of determiners. In H. Caunt-Nulton, S. Kulatilake, & I. Woo (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp.196-205). Somerville, MA:  Cascadilla P

Tremblay, A., & Demuth, K. 2007. Prosodic licensing of determiners in childrens early French. InA. Belikova, L. Meroni & M. Umeda (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA) (pp. 426-436). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

2006

Demuth, K. 2006. Crosslinguistic perspectives on the development of prosodic words. Guest Editor, Special Issue, Language and Speech, 49 (2), 129-297.

Demuth, K., & Kehoe, M. 2006. The acquisition of word-final clusters in French.  Journal of Catalan Linguistics, 5, 59-81.

Demuth, K., Culbertson, J., & Alter, J. 2006. Word-minimality, epenthesis, and coda licensing in the acquisition of English. Language & Speech, 49, 137-174.

Kirk, C., & Demuth, K. 2006. Accounting for variability in 2-year-olds production of coda consonants. Language Learning and Development, 2, 97-118.

2005

Demuth, K., Machobane, M., & Moloi, F., & Odato, C. 2005. Learning Animacy Hierarchy Effects In Sesotho Double Object Applicatives.  Language, 81 (2), 421-447.

Kirk, C., & Demuth, K. 2005. Asymmetries in the acquisition of word-initial and word-final consonant clusters. Journal of Child Language, 32 (4), 709-734. Stammering Research, 1, 297-298.

Demuth, K. 2004.  Production approaches to Stuttering. Stammering Research, 1, 297-298.

Stites, J., Demuth, K., & Kirk, C.  2004. Markedness versus frequency effects in coda acquisition. In A. Brugos, L. Micciulla, & C.E. Smith (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 565-576). Somerville, MA:  Cascadilla Press.

2003

Demuth, K. 2003.  The acquisition of Bantu languages.  In D. Nurse & G. Phillipson (Eds.), The Bantu Languages (pp.209-222).  Surry, UK:  Curzon Press.

Demuth, K. 2003.  The status of feet in early acquisition. 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) (pp. 151-154). Universidad Autonima de Barcelona.

Demuth, K., & Johnson, M. 2003. Truncation to subminimal words in early French. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 48, 211-241.

Demuth, K., Machobane, M., & Moloi, F. 2003. Learning animacy hierarchy effects in Bantu double object applicative constructions. In J. Mugane (Ed.) Linguistic Typology and Representation of African Languages: Trends in African Linguistics, vol. 5 (pp. 23-33).  Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press.

Demuth, K., Machobane, M., & Moloi, F. 2003.  Rules and construction effects in learning the argument structure of verbs.  Journal of Child Language, 30, 1-25.

Kirk, C., & Demuth, K.  2003.  Onset/coda asymmetries in the acquisition of clusters.  In B. Beachley, A. Brown, & F. Conlin (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 437-448). Somerville, MA:  Cascadilla Press.

2002

Cutler, A., Demuth, K., & McQueen, J.  2002.  Universality versus language-specificity in listening to running speech.  Psychological Science 13 (3), 258-262.

Demuth, K., Machobane, M., Moloi, F., & Odato, C. 2002. Rule learning and lexical frequency effects in learning verb-argument structure. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp.142-153). Somerville, MA:  Cascadilla Press.

2001

Demuth, K. 2001.  A prosodic approach to filler syllables.  Journal of Child Language, 28, 246-249.

Demuth, K. 2001.  Prosodic constraints on morphological development.  In J. Weissenborn & B. Höhle (Eds.), Approaches to Bootstrapping: Phonological, Syntactic and Neurophysiological Aspects of Early Language Acquisition.  Language Acquisition and Language Disorders Series, vol. 24 (pp. 3-21). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Pepinsky, T., Demuth, K., & Roark, B. 2001.  The status of filler syllables in childrens early speech.  In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 575-586). Somerville, MA:  Cascadilla Press.

2000

Demuth, K. 2000.  Bantu noun class systems: Loan word and acquisition evidence of semantic productivity.  In G. Senft (Ed.), Classification Systems (pp. 270-292). Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

Demuth, K., Machobane, M., & Moloi, F. 2000.  Learning word order constraints under conditions of object ellipsis.  Linguistics, 38 (3), 545-568.

Roark, B., & Demuth, K.  2000.  Prosodic constraints and the learners environment: A corpus study.  In S.C. Howell, S.A. Fish, & T. Keith-Lucas (Eds.), Proceedings of the 24th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 597-608). Somerville, MA:  Cascadilla Press.

Sedivy, J., Demuth, K., Chunyo, G., & Freeman, S. 2000.  Incremental referentiality-based language processing in young children: Evidence from eye movement monitoring.  In S.C. Howell, S.A. Fish, & T. Keith-Lucas (Eds.), Proceedings of the 24th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 684-695). Somerville, MA:  Cascadilla Press.

Research in language acquisition 1984-1999

1999

Lleó, C., & Demuth, K. 1999.  Prosodic constraints on the emergence of grammatical morphemes:  Crosslinguistic evidence from Germanic and Romance languages. In A. Greenhill, H. Littlefield, & C. Tano (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 407-418). Somerville, MA:  Cascadilla Press.

1998

Demuth, K. 1998.  Argument structure and the acquisition of Sesotho applicatives.  Linguistics, 36 (4), 781-806.

Demuth, K. 1998.  Review of Jusczyk, P. (1997). The discovery of spoken language. Cambridge, MA:  MIT Press.  Language and Speech , 41, 109-113.

1997

Demuth, K. 1997.  Multiple optimal outputs in acquisition. University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics, 5, 53-71.

Demuth, K. 1997.  Variation in acquisition: An optimal approach.  In S. Davis (Ed.), Optimality Viewpoints (pp. 77-88).  Bloomington:  Indiana University Linguistics Club.

Demuth, K., &  Suzman, S. 1997.  Language impairment in Zulu. In E.M. Hughes & A. Green (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 124-135).  Somerville, MA:  Cascadilla Press.

Gennari, S., &  Demuth, K. 1997.  Syllable omission in Spanish. In E. M. Hughes & A. Green (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 182-193). Somerville, MA:  Cascadilla Press.

1996

Demuth, K. 1996.  Alignment, stress and parsing in early phonological words.  In B. Bernhardt, J. Gilbert, & D. Ingram (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Phonological Acquisition (pp. 113-124).  Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Demuth, K.  1996.  Collecting spontaneous production data.  In D. McDaniel, C. McKee, and H.S. Cairns (Eds.), Methods for Assessing Childrens Syntax (pp. 3-22).  Cambridge, MA:  MIT Press.

Demuth, K. 1996.  The prosodic structure of early words. In J. Morgan & K. Demuth (Eds.), Signal to Syntax:  Bootstrapping from Speech to Grammar in Early Acquisition (pp. 171-184).  Mahwah, N.J.:  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Demuth, K. 1996.  Stages in the acquisition of prosodic structure. In E. Clark (Ed.), Proceedings of the 27th Child Language Research Forum (pp. 39-48).  Stanford University: CSLI.

Morgan, J., & Demuth, K. eds. 1996.  Signal to Syntax:  Bootstrapping from Speech to Grammar in Early Acquisition. Mahwah, N.J.:  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Morgan, J., &  Demuth, K. 1996.  Signal to syntax:  An overview.  In J. Morgan and K. Demuth (Eds.), Signal to Syntax:  Bootstrapping from Speech to Grammar in Early Acquisition  (pp. 1-22). Mahwah, N.J.:  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

1995

Demuth, K. & Fee, E.J. 1995. Minimal prosodic words in early phonological development. Unpublished ms., Brown University and Dalhousie University.

Demuth, K.  1995.  Markedness and the development of prosodic structure.  In J. Beckman (Ed.), Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society, 25 (pp. 13-25).  Amherst, MA: GLSA, University of Massachusetts.

Demuth, K. 1995.  Problems in the acquisition of tonal systems.  In J. Archibald (Ed.), The Acquisition of Non-linear Phonology (pp. 111-134).  Hillsdale, N.J.:  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Demuth, K. 1995.  Questions, relatives, and minimal projection.  Language Acquisition, 4, 49-71.

Ziesler, Y,. & Demuth, K. 1995.  Noun class prefixes in Sesotho child-directed speech.  In E. Clark (Ed.), Proceedings of the 26th Child Language Research Forum, (pp. 137-146).  Stanford University: CSLI.

1994

Demuth, K. 1994.  On the 'underspecification' of functional categories in early grammars.  In B. Lust , M. Suñer, & J. Whitman (Eds.), Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition:  Cross-Linguistic Perspectives (pp. 119-134).  Hillsdale, N.J.:  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

1993

Demuth, K. 1993.  Issues in the acquisition of the Sesotho tonal system. Journal of Child Language, 20, 275-301.

1992

Demuth, K. 1992.  Accessing functional categories in Sesotho: Interactions at the morpho-syntax interface.  In J. Meisel (Ed.), The Acquisition of Verb Placement:  Functional Categories and V2 Phenomena in Language Development.(pp. 83-107).  Kluwer Academic Publishers:  Dordrecht.

Demuth, K. 1992.  Acquisition of Sesotho.  In D. Slobin (Ed.), The Cross-Linguistic Study of Language Acquisition, vol 3, 557-638.  Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

1991

Demuth, K. 1991.  Acquisition of the Sesotho tonal system.  Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 26, 1-31.  Universität zu Köln.

1990

Demuth, K. 1990.  Subject, topic and the Sesotho passive.  Journal of Child Language, 17, 67-84.

1989

Demuth, K. 1989.  Problems in the acquisition of grammatical tone.  Papers & Reports on Child Language Development, 28, 81-88. Stanford.  [Reproduced in Occasional Working Papers, Institute for Southern African Studies.  National University of Lesotho: Roma. 1990.]

1988

Demuth, K. 1988.  Noun classes and agreement in Sesotho acquisition. In M. Barlow & C. Ferguson (eds.), Agreement in Natural Languages: Approaches, Theories and Descriptions.  CSLI:  University of Chicago Press.  pp. 305-321.

1987

Demuth, K.  1987.  Discourse functions of word order in Sesotho acquisition.  In R. Tomlin (Ed.), Coherence and Grounding in Discourse. Proceedings of a Symposium on Discourse, Cognition and Syntax (pp. 91-108).  Eugene, Oregon.  Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Demuth, K., & Smith, N. 1987.  The foreign language requirement:  An Alternative Program.  Foreign Language Annals, 20, 67-77.

1986

Demuth, K. 1986.  Prompting routines in the language socialization of Basotho children.  In B. Schieffelin and E. Ochs (Eds.), Language Socialization Across Cultures. Social and Cultural Foundations of Language Series  (pp. 51-79). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Demuth, K., Faraclas, N., & Marchese, L. 1986.  Niger-Congo noun class and agreement systems in language acquisition and historical change.  In C. Craig (Ed.), Noun Class and Categorization.  Typological Studies in Language, vol 7 (pp, 453-471) . Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

1985

Demuth, K., Faraclas, N., & Marchese, L. 1985. Niger-Congo noun class and agreement Systems in Historical and Acquisition Perspective.  In R. Schuh (Ed.), Studies in African Linguistics, suppl. 9, (pp. 78-82).  UCLA.

1984

Demuth, K. 1984. The acquisition of pragmatic word order in Sesotho. University of California, Berkeley.

Demuth, K. 1984. Aspects of Sesotho Language Acquisition. Indiana University Linguistics Club, Bloomington.

Research in Australian Aboriginal and other languages

Jones, C., Demuth, K., Li, W., & Almeida, A. 2017. Vowels in the Barunga Variety of North Australian Kriol. Proc. Interspeech 2017, 219-223.

Harvey, M., Lin, S., Turpin, M., Davies, B., & Demuth, K. 2015. Contrastive and non-contrastive pre-stopping in Kaytetye. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 35:3, 1-19. doi/full/10.1080/07268602.2015.1023170

Harvey, M., Davies, B., Lin, S., Turpin, M., Ross, A. & Demuth, K. 2015. Two types of pre-stopping in Kaytetye. Proceedings of the Forty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Helena Aparicio, Gallagher Flinn, Kathryn Franich, Joanna Pietraszko, Tamara Vardomskaya  (eds.), pp. 145-152.

Lin, S., Harvey, M., Turpin, M., Ross, A., Demuth, K. 2015. The articulation of contrastive and non-contrastive pre-stopped consonants in Kaytetye. In J. Stuart-Smith, J. Scobbie, A. Turk (Eds.) Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow UK: University of Glasgow.

Research in Bantu languages

De Cat, C., & Demuth, K (eds). 2008. The Bantu-Romance Connection: A comparative investigation of syntactic structure. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Machobane, M., Moloi, F., & Demuth, K. 2008. Some restrictions on Sesotho null noun class prefixes. South African Journal of African Languages 27 (4), 166-180.

Demuth, K., & Kline, M. 2006. The distribution of passives in spoken Sesotho. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 24, 377-388. (Special issue on Theory and Description of Southern Bantu Syntax).

Rose, Y., & Demuth, K. 2006. Vowel epenthesis in loanword adaptation: representational and phonetic considerations. In Loanword Phonology: Current Issues. M. Kenstowicz & C. Uffmann, (eds.).  Lingua, 116, 1112-1139.

Demuth, K., Machobane, M., & Moloi, F.  2004.  Learning word order constraints on Bantu applicatives. Journal of African Language Teachers Association (JALTA), vol.5. Global Publications, Binghamton, New York.

Demuth, K., & Machobane, M.  2001.  Sesotho.  In J. Garry & C. Rubino (eds.), Facts about the world's languages: An encyclopedia of the world's major languages, past and present.  pp. 633-636.  The H. W. Wilson Company: York New. New England Publishing Associates.

Demuth, K., & Harford, C.  1999.  Verb raising and subject inversion in comparative Bantu.  Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 20 (1), 41-61.

Harford, C., & Demuth, K.  1999.  Prosody outranks syntax:  An Optimality approach to subject inversion in Bantu relatives.  Linguistic Analysis 29 (1-2), 47-68.

Demuth, K., & Mmusi, S.  1997.  Presentational focus and thematic structure in comparative Bantu.  Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 18, 1-19.

Demuth, K., & Gruber, J.  1995.  Constraining XP-sequences. In V. Manfredi & K. Reynolds (eds.), Niger-Congo Syntax and Semantics 6, 3-30.  Boston University African Studies Center, Boston.

Demuth, K.  1990.  Locatives, impersonals and expletives in Sesotho.  The Linguistic Review 7, 233-249.  Foris Publications: Dordrecht.  1990.

Demuth, K.  1989.  Discourse functions of independent pronouns in Setswana.  In I. Häik & L. Tuller (eds.), Current Issues in African Linguistics.  Dordrecht:  Foris Publications.  pp. 176-193.

Demuth, K.  1989.  Maturation and the acquisition of Sesotho passive.  Language, 65, 56-80.

Demuth, K.  1989.  Review of A Sociolinguistic Profile of Urban Centers in Cameroon, by E. Koenig, E. Chia & J. Povey (eds.).  Africana Journal 15, 389-390.

Demuth, K.  1989.  Unificação dos princípios organizacionais no desenvolvimento das convenções ortográficas (=Unifying organizational principles in the development of orthographic conventions). I Seminário sobre a Padronização da Ortografia de Línguas Mocambiçanas (First Seminar on Developing Guidelines for a Unified Orthography for Mozambican Languages) pp. 150-153, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique.

Demuth, K., & Johnson, M.  1989. Interactions between discourse functions and agreement in Setawana.  Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 11, 22-35.

Demuth, K., &  Sekhesa Mputhi, T.  1979. Introduction to Sesotho:  An Oral Approach.  (with language tapes).  Indiana University Linguistics Club.  Bloomington, Indiana.

Media engagement

New project to help kids with hearing loss. The Lighthouse, Macquarie University, 3 March 2019. (Demuth, K., Sharma, M.,  Hollowell, J.).

New Cochlear findings to help millions of Chinese children. The Lighthouse, Macquarie University, 22 November 2018. (Xu Rattanasone, N and Tang, P).

What is the easiest language to learn? The Lighthouse, Macquarie University. 30 May 2018. (Xu Rattanasone, N).

Ever wondered how we can hear smiles, even if we can't see them? Aussie Mum Network. 5 October 2017. (Benders, T.)

Can your baby hear your smile? The Bub Hub. 22 September 2017. (Benders, T.)

The simple facial trick that could help your baby learn faster. Kidspot.13 September 2017. (Benders, T.)

Pioneering minds: Katherine Demuth and Language.Pioneering Minds Sound Cloud. 7 September 2016. (Demuth, K.)

Tide is turning in education as traditional forms of teaching make a welcome comeback. The Weekend Australian. 21 March 2015. (Mealings, K.)

Children, teachers battle noise in open-learning spaces. Education Review. 13 February 2015. (Mealings, K.)

Acoustics issues with new open plan classrooms. 666 ABC Canberra Drive. 12 February 2015. (Mealings, K.)

Open-plan learning. 2SER FM The Daily. 11 February 2015. (Mealings, K.)

Open-plan learning. ABC Newcastle Mornings. 11 February 2015. (Mealings, K.)

Students struggle to hear teacher in new fad open-plan classrooms. 774 ABC Melbourne Drive. 10 February 2015. (Mealings, K.)

Students struggle to hear teacher in new fad open-plan classrooms. The Conversation. 10 February 2015. (Mealings, K.)

Students struggle to hear teacher in new fad open-plan classrooms. ABC Ballarat. 10 February 2015. (Mealings, K.)

Fifty to seventy percent of children in open plan classrooms can't hear their teacher. 2GB. 3 February 2015. (Mealings, K.)

Open classes hit the sound barrier: Kindy kids unable to hear lessons. Daily Telegraph. 2 February 2015. (Mealings, K.)

Interview about accents. 891 ABC Adelaide. 25 November 2014. (Cox, F.)

Macquarie University needs children to participate in child language lab studies. News Local. 9 April 2014. (Demuth, K., & Revius, K.)

Raising bilingual children. 2SER FM The Daily. 9 April 2014. (Xu Rattanasone, N., & Demuth, K.)

Interview: Bilingual children, good or bad? The Wire. 31 March 2014. (Demuth, K.)

Should I raise my kids bilingually? The Conversation. 31 March 2014. (Demuth, K., & Xu Rattanasone, N.)

Interview about the Australian accent and language. 4BC Drive. 26 March 2014. (Cox, F.)

Student resources

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