Dr Beyza Sumer
@beyzasumer.bsky.social
Linguist in ❤️ with sign languages and multimodal language development 👈 Based in University of Amsterdam & Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics 🙌
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Dr Beyza Sumer
@beyzasumer.bsky.social
· Apr 23
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My project “Handy Library” is pre-finalist for Amsterdam Science Awards. Vote for to make it to Finals. Deadline May 11: www.ixa.nl/amsia-pre-fi...
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Application for a PhD position at our department is now open! We are looking for applicants that are interested in areas of sign language linguistics, general sign language studies, or deaf bilingualism/multilingualism. Deadline is 15th Oct. Please share away! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
PhD student in Linguistics, sign language
The Department of Linguistics at Stockholm University conducts research and offers education in a number of areas such as child language development, computational linguistics, general linguistics, ph
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September 19, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Application for a PhD position at our department is now open! We are looking for applicants that are interested in areas of sign language linguistics, general sign language studies, or deaf bilingualism/multilingualism. Deadline is 15th Oct. Please share away! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Leaving ICED2025 with wonderful memories! Together with Marie-Anne Sallandre, we dedicated our symposium on sign language acq research and what it means for deaf edu to the great Virginia Volterra - a leader and inspirer in the field!
July 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Leaving ICED2025 with wonderful memories! Together with Marie-Anne Sallandre, we dedicated our symposium on sign language acq research and what it means for deaf edu to the great Virginia Volterra - a leader and inspirer in the field!
One more day to vote for Handy Library for AmSia Awards Society category www.ixa.nl/amsia-pre-fi... @uva.nl @uvahumanities.bsky.social
May 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
One more day to vote for Handy Library for AmSia Awards Society category www.ixa.nl/amsia-pre-fi... @uva.nl @uvahumanities.bsky.social
Very happy to host @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social as our MELD presenter this week @uva.nl @uvahumanities.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Very happy to host @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social as our MELD presenter this week @uva.nl @uvahumanities.bsky.social
Best activity for a Friday evening 🤓 something is cooking 👩🏻🍳
April 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Best activity for a Friday evening 🤓 something is cooking 👩🏻🍳
My project “Handy Library” is pre-finalist for Amsterdam Science Awards. Vote for to make it to Finals. Deadline May 11: www.ixa.nl/amsia-pre-fi...
a kermit the frog is holding a sign that says vote .
ALT: a kermit the frog is holding a sign that says vote .
media.tenor.com
April 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
My project “Handy Library” is pre-finalist for Amsterdam Science Awards. Vote for to make it to Finals. Deadline May 11: www.ixa.nl/amsia-pre-fi...
Future scientist in progress 😇
April 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Future scientist in progress 😇
We just had our first speaker for the newly established research group “Multimodality and Embodiment in Language Development” (MELD) at the University of Amsterdam. Dr.Ceyhun Servi’s talk on the relation between language & drawing skills in children with ASD was great!
April 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
We just had our first speaker for the newly established research group “Multimodality and Embodiment in Language Development” (MELD) at the University of Amsterdam. Dr.Ceyhun Servi’s talk on the relation between language & drawing skills in children with ASD was great!
Delighted to receive such a constructive commentary for our paper - many thanks 🙌
Our commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek paper:
"Promoting a multimodal first language acquisition framework" @ecedemirlira.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/9PHBG...
@dilaykaradoller.bsky.social @asliozyurek.bsky.social
"Promoting a multimodal first language acquisition framework" @ecedemirlira.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/9PHBG...
@dilaykaradoller.bsky.social @asliozyurek.bsky.social
Promoting a multimodal first language acquisition framework: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek - Tilbe Göksun, Ö. Ece Demir-Lira, 2025
Karadöller et al. propose a multimodal language acquisition framework, integrating evidence from first language acquisition in spoken and sign languages. In thi...
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April 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Delighted to receive such a constructive commentary for our paper - many thanks 🙌
Thank you @neilcohn.bsky.social for highlighting our paper! We are also very happy with your commentary for us 👍
In a nice new paper, @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social and @asliozyurek.bsky.social review multimodal language acquisition. In our response, we argue that our multimodal model of language and communication provides exactly the kind of framework needed to account for these data
doi.org/10.1177/0142...
doi.org/10.1177/0142...
April 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Thank you @neilcohn.bsky.social for highlighting our paper! We are also very happy with your commentary for us 👍