Rate My Professor Titia Benders

Macquarie University

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5.08/20/2025

Makes every class a memorable experience.

4.05/21/2025

Always positive, enthusiastic, and supportive.

5.03/31/2025

Encourages creative and innovative thinking.

4.02/27/2025

Encourages students to think critically.

5.02/17/2025

Fosters collaboration and teamwork.

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Titia Benders is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences at Macquarie University, where she co-supervises PhD projects including that of Anwar Alkhudidi. She previously served as Lecturer in Linguistics and Deputy Director of the Child Language Lab at Macquarie University. Benders holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Amsterdam (2013), with the thesis "Nature’s distributional-learning experiment: Infants’ input, infants’ perception, and computational modeling." She earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Linguistics from the University of Amsterdam, specializing in Phonetics and Language Acquisition; her Master’s thesis was conducted at the Speech Development Lab, University of Calgary. She received a 4-year Toptalent grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (2008) to pursue her PhD. Her postdoctoral research was at the Center for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, and she was a visiting researcher at the MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney.