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Jenni Sander
@jennisander.bsky.social
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PhD student at the Language Development Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics & Max Planck School of Cognition
Nijmegen, NL
all about (sign) language acquisition & visual attention
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Really excited I was able to present my work at #BUCLD ! Thanks for everyone who attended my talk and asked great questions!
View onto the stage of an auditorium, title slide of my talk showing a child and a parent interact in sign. Title of the presentation: ‘Exploring visual pathways for label-object mapping in signing and speaking children’ and a video-recording of me presenting in the corner of the screen
November 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
jennisander.bsky.social
Together with @carorowland.bsky.social and @yayun23.bsky.social I wrote a commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek:

Language acquisition occurs in multimodal social interaction

Find it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Screenshot of the article linked and mentioned in the post
April 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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In case you missed my poster at #TISLR15 today, find me tomorrow or send me a message and let’s have a chat!
We are able to show that signing children do indeed get parallel input of object and object labels on a regular base and that bimodal bilingual children’s show modality specific patterns!
Jenni presenting her poster, wearing a blazer and jeans. Several people stand in front of the poster and the poster title is: “Through the Eyes of the Learner: Examining Attentional Dynamics in Signed Caregiver-Child Interactions using Head-Mounted Eye-Tracking”
January 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM