Nan Xu Rattanasone

Nan Xu Rattanasone is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University, Australia. She holds additional roles as Director of Research Training, Deputy Director of the Child Language Lab, and member of the Hearing Research Centre. Her research focuses on language and literacy development in young bilingual children and those with hearing loss, addressing implications for school readiness and atypical language development. She teaches courses in language acquisition and supervises PhD students in bilingualism, hearing loss, and related areas.

Research Interests:

• Emergent Language and Literacy Skills
• Bilingualism (particularly Mandarin-English contexts)
• Hearing Loss and Cochlear Implants
• Prosody and Phonological Processing
• Inflectional Morphology in Child Language

Grants and Collaborations: Her work has been funded by the NSW Department of Education, Australian Research Council (ARC), National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), and philanthropic organizations. She has led projects on bilingual education and participated in initiatives like the HEARing CRC and ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders.

Labs & Teams: Active in the Child Language Lab and Hearing Research Centre at Macquarie University, contributing to interdisciplinary studies on language development.