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Dr. A.T. (Titia) Benders

Faculty of Humanities
Capaciteitsgroep Taalwetenschap

Visiting address
  • Spuistraat 134
  • Room number: 6.33
Postal address
  • Postbus 1642
    1000 BP Amsterdam
  • Profile

    Dr. Titia Benders is an Assistant Professor in Linguistics (with a focus on phonetics) at the University of Amsterdam. Benders uses investigates developing phonological representations at the interface between perception, production, and input, using methods from phonetics and developmental psychology. She works on the acquisition of segmental and prosodic representations by children between 6 months and 6 years of age who acquire one or multiple languages, and has a particular interest in supporting research on lesser-studied languages (i.e., "the other 98.5%"). A second line of research concerns the linguistic and emotional properties of infant-directed speech by parents.

    Dr. Benders welcomes enquires from emerging researchers with an interest in similar topics, for example during an internship, as BA-thesis, a MA-tutorial,or a PhD thesis. Please have a look at my publications, to ensure that our interests match, and email me to share what you're interested in.

  • Publications

    2024

    2023

    • Aravena-Bravo, P., Cristia, A., Garcia, R., Kotera, H., Nicolas, R. K., Laranjo, R., Arokoyo, B. E., Benavides-Varela, S., Benders, T., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Cychosz, M., Ben, R. D., Diop, Y., Durán-Urzúa, C., Havron, N., Manalili, M., Narasimhan, B., Omane, P. O., Rowland, C., ... Woon, F. T. (2023). Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: The First Truly Global International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021. Journal of Cognition and Development. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2023.2231083
    • Benders, T., & Blom, E. (2023). Computational modelling of language acquisition: An introduction. Journal of Child Language. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000923000429
    • Woolard, A., Benders, T., Campbell, L. E., Whalen, O. M., Mallise, C., Karayanidis, F., Barker, D., Murphy, V. E., Tait, J., Gibson, P., Korostenski, L., & Lane, A. E. (2023). The relationship between pitch contours in infant-directed speech and early signs of autism in infancy. Infant Behavior and Development, 72, Article 101860. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101860 [details]

    2022

    • Boersma, P., Chládková, K., & Benders, T. (2022). Phonological features emerge substance-freely from the phonetics and the morphology. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique, 67(4), 611-669. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/cnj.2022.39 [details]
    • Stoehr, A., Benders, T., van Hell, J. G., & Fikkert, P. (2022). Feature generalization in Dutch–German bilingual and monolingual children’s speech production. First Language, 42(1), 101-123. https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237211058937 [details]
    • Szalay, T., Benders, T., Cox, F., & Proctor, M. (2022). Reconsidering lateral vocalisation: Evidence from perception and production of Australian English /l/. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(4), 2106-2116. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0014249 [details]
    • Woolard, A., Lane, A. E., Campbell, L. E., Whalen, O. M., Swaab, L., Karayanidis, F., Barker, D., Murphy, V., & Benders, T. (2022). Infant and Child-Directed Speech Used with Infants and Children at Risk or Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder: a Scoping Review. Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 9(2), 290-306. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40489-021-00253-y

    2021

    • Ahmed, B., Ballard, K., Burnham, D., Sirojan, T., Mehmood, H., Estival, D., Baker, E., Cox, F., Arciuli, J., Benders, T., Demuth, K., Kelly, B., Diskin-Holdaway, C., Shahin, M., Sethu, V., Epps, J., Lee, C. B., & Ambikairajah, E. (2021). AusKidTalk: An auditory-visual corpus of 3-to 12-year-old Australian children's speech. In 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2021 (pp. 4351-4355). (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH; Vol. 6). International Speech Communication Association. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2021-2000
    • Benders, T., StGeorge, J., & Fletcher, R. (2021). Infant-directed Speech by Dutch Fathers: Increased Pitch Variability within and across Utterances. Language Learning and Development, 17(3), 292-325. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2021.1876698
    • Hahn, L. E., Benders, T., Fikkert, P., & Snijders, T. M. (2021). Infants’ Implicit Rhyme Perception in Child Songs and Its Relationship With Vocabulary. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 680882. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.680882
    • Szalay, T., Benders, T., Cox, F., & Proctor, M. (2021). Perceptual vowel contrast reduction in Australian English /l/-final rimes. Laboratory Phonology, 12(1), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.5334/LABPHON.185
    • Szalay, T., Benders, T., Cox, F., Palethorpe, S., & Proctor, M. (2021). Spectral contrast reduction in Australian English /l/-final rimes. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 149(2), 1183-1197. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0003499

    2020

    2019

    • Junge, C., Boll-Avetisyan, N., & Benders, T. (2019). Speech perception and discrimination: From sounds to words. In International Handbook of Language Acquisition (pp. 153-172). Taylor and Francis Inc..
    • Stoehr, A., Benders, T., van Hell, J. G., & Fikkert, P. (2019). Bilingual Preschoolers’ Speech is Associated with Non-Native Maternal Language Input. Language Learning and Development, 15(1), 75-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2018.1533473

    2018

    • Hahn, L. E., Benders, T., Snijders, T. M., & 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
    • Stoehr, A., Benders, T., Van Hell, J. G., & Fikkert, P. (2018). Heritage language exposure impacts voice onset time of Dutch-German simultaneous bilingual preschoolers. Bilingualism, 21(3), 598-617. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728917000116

    2017

    2015

    2013

    • Benders, T. (2013). Mommy is only happy! Dutch mothers' realisation of speech sounds in infant-directed speech expresses emotion, not didactic intent. Infant Behavior and Development, 36(4), 847-862. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2013.09.001

    2012

    • Benders, T., Escudero, P., & Sjerps, M. J. (2012). The interrelation between acoustic context effects and available response categories in speech sound categorization. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 131(4), 3079-3087. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3688512 [details]
    • Lipski, S. C., Escudero, P., & Benders, T. (2012). Language experience modulates weighting of acoustic cues for vowel perception: an event-related potential study. Psychophysiology, 49(5), 638-650. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01347.x [details]

    2011

    • Escudero, P., Benders, T., & Wanrooij, K. (2011). Enhanced bimodal distributions facilitate the learning of second language vowels. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130(4), EL206-EL212. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3629144 [details]

    2010

    • Benders, T., & Escudero, P. (2010). The interrelation between the stimulus range and the number of response categories in vowel categorization. Interspeech, 11, 106-109. https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/interspeech_2010/i10_0106.html [details]
    • Escudero, P., & Benders, T. (2010). Phonetic and phonological approaches to early word recognition: empirical findings, methodological issues, and theoretical implications. In M. Everaert, T. Lentz, H. De Mulder, Ø. Nilsen, & A. Zondervan (Eds.), The linguistics enterprise: from knowledge of language to knowledge in linguistics (pp. 55-77). (Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today; No. 150). John Benjamins. [details]

    2009

    2023

    • Omane, P. O., Benders, T., Duah, R. A., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. (2023). Diversifying language acquisition research can be (partly) achieved in urban societies and with simplified methodologies: Insights from multilingual Ghana. Journal of Child Language, 50(3), 532-536. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000923000090 [details]

    2016

    • Lammertink, I., Casillas, M., Benders, T., Post, B., & Fikkert, P. (2016). Turn-taking bij jonge kinderen: Zinsbouw, zinsmelodie en turn-taking bij jonge kinderen. Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Logopedie, 88(1-2), 6-12. [details]

    2011

    Talk / presentation

    • Benders, A. T. (speaker) & Boersma, P. (speaker) (1-11-2013). Learning from multiple acoustic cues for phoneme acquisition: Infants’ input, infants’ perception, and neural network simulations, Boston University Conference on Language Development 38, Boston. http://www.bu.edu/bucld/
    • Boersma, P. (speaker), Chládková, K. (speaker) & Benders, A. T. (speaker) (25-5-2013). Learning phonological structures from sound-meaning pairs, 21st Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester. http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/mfm/21mfm.html
    • Benders, T. (speaker) & Boersma, P. (speaker) (5-6-2012). Learning from multiple acoustic cues for phoneme acquisition: Dutch infants' perception, language input, and neural networks, International Child Phonology Conference, Minneapolis.
    • Benders, T. (speaker) (18-1-2012). Dutch infants' discrimination of /A/ and /a:/: evidence for simultaneous learning of multiple cues, Old-World Conference in Phonology, Berlin.
    • Benders, A. T. (speaker) (14-4-2011). Over luisterende baby's, Spui25, Amsterdam.
    • Benders, A. T. (speaker) (20-1-2011). Representing sociophonetic knowledge in the bidirectional model of phonetics and phonology, 8th Old-World Conference in Phonology, Marrakech.
    • Benders, T. (speaker) (29-11-2010). Infants' cue weighting of vowel spectrum and duration, Elitu, Utrecht University.
    • Benders, T. (speaker) (26-11-2010). Infants' cue weighting of vowel spectrum and duration, BabyCircle, Leiden University.
    • Benders, T. (speaker), Escudero, P. (speaker) & Sjerps, M. (speaker) (16-11-2010). The interrelation between the stimulus range and the number of response categories in vowel categorization, 2nd Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics, Cancun, Mexico.
    • Benders, T. (speaker) & Escudero, P. (speaker) (27-9-2010). The interrelation between the stimulus range and the number of response categories in vowel categorization, 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, (Interspeech), Makuhari.
    • Benders, T. (speaker), Curtin, S. (speaker), Escudero, P. (speaker) & Swingley, D. (speaker) (11-3-2010). Fifteen-month-old infants’ sensitivity to vowels’ first and second formant in novel word learning., International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore.
    • Benders, T. (speaker) (23-10-2009). Can Dutch vowels be learnt from Dutch input?, NAP-dag 2009, Amsterdam.
    • Benders, T. (speaker) & Boersma, P. (speaker) (7-9-2009). Comparing methods to find a best exemplar in a multidimensional space, Interspeech 2009: speech and intelligence, Brighton, UK..
    • Benders, T. (speaker) (14-5-2009). Comparing methods to find a best exemplar in a multidimensional space., Sound Circle., Amsterdam.
    • Benders, T. (speaker) (16-1-2009). Fifteen-month-old infants’ sensitivity to vowels’ first and second formant in novel word learning., Anéla Juniorendag 2009, Amsterdam.
    • Benders, A. T. (speaker) (8-10-2008). Fifteen-month-old infants’ sensitivity to vowels’ first and second formant in novel word learning, Baby Circle, Leiden University.

    Others

    • Chládková, K. (participant), Bakker, I. (participant), Benders, T. (participant), van Leussen, J. W. (participant) & Wanrooij, K. (participant) (16-4-2010). Workshop, Amsterdam. Workshop on using Eye-tracking in Linguistics and Cognitive Science (participating in a conference, workshop, ...). http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/workshops
    • Bakker, I. (participant), Wanrooij, K. E. (participant), Benders, T. (participant), Chládková, K. (participant) & van Leussen, J. W. (participant) (26-2-2010). workshop ACLC, Phonetic Sciences & CSCA, Amsterdam. Workshop on Using EEG in Linguistics and Cognitive Science (participating in a conference, workshop, ...). http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/eegworkshop2010/
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