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Ben Davies is an Honorary Postdoctoral Fellow at Macquarie University's Department of Linguistics, affiliated with the Hearing CRC Centre for Language Sciences (CLaS) and the Macquarie University Child Language Lab. His research focuses on children's acquisition of inflectional morphology, particularly the influence of hearing loss and Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). He completed his PhD on 'Children's Gradual Acquisition of Singular and Plural,' examining how children understand plural forms in English.
Research interests include cross-linguistic morphosyntactic variation, bilingual language development, and the role of phonology in morphological processing. His work spans experimental methodologies in speech research and digital tool validation for language studies.
Recent publications highlight bilingual acquisition dynamics, predictors of language comprehension in hearing-impaired children, and public awareness of DLD. His articles explore morphosyntactic variation in Sesotho and English, as well as the application of smartphone tools for speech data collection.
No scientific awards are listed in the provided texts. Research outputs include collaborations on topics like predictive processing in hearing-impaired children and the validity of remote language assessments. Davies' work integrates experimental psychology, linguistic theory, and applied methodology to advance understanding of child language development challenges.
