Jenni Sander
@jennisander.bsky.social
PhD student at the Language Development Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics & Max Planck School of Cognition
Nijmegen, NL
all about (sign) language acquisition & visual attention
Nijmegen, NL
all about (sign) language acquisition & visual attention
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Coming to CogSci 2025 - where do we look when watching sign language? Deaf signers look at the face (tho novice hearer-speakers look at the hands), showing how the language faculty adapts to different modalities. Led by @jennisander.bsky.social & Patrick Trettenbrein escholarship.org/uc/item/0183...
Deaf Signers Adapt Their Eye Gaze Behaviour When Processing an Unknown Sign Language
Author(s): Sander, Jennifer; Meister, Nina-Kristin; Finkbeiner, Thomas A.; Rowland, Caroline F; Steinbach, Markus; Friederici, Angela D.; Zaccarella, Emiliano; Trettenbrein, Patrick C. | Abstract: Sig...
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July 30, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Coming to CogSci 2025 - where do we look when watching sign language? Deaf signers look at the face (tho novice hearer-speakers look at the hands), showing how the language faculty adapts to different modalities. Led by @jennisander.bsky.social & Patrick Trettenbrein escholarship.org/uc/item/0183...
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How does speaking a free word order language influence sentence planning and production? Evidence from Pitjantjatjara (Pama‐Nyungan, Australia). New paper by Evan Kidd & al. with Gabriela Garrido Rodríguez
doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70087
doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70087
How Does Speaking A Free Word Order Language Influence Sentence Planning and Production? Evidence From Pitjantjatjara (Pama‐Nyungan, Australia)
Sentence production is a stage-like process of mapping a conceptual representation to the linear speech signal via grammatical rules. While the typological diversity of languages is vast and thus mus...
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July 21, 2025 at 6:32 AM
How does speaking a free word order language influence sentence planning and production? Evidence from Pitjantjatjara (Pama‐Nyungan, Australia). New paper by Evan Kidd & al. with Gabriela Garrido Rodríguez
doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70087
doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70087
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Our @dondersinst.bsky.social funded collaboration project EnvisionBoxBaby is in full swing. Leveraging object detection for eye tracking-object dynamics.
With @babajideowoyele.bsky.social @Davide Ahmar, @sabinehunnius.bsky.social @carorowland.bsky.social @yayun23.bsky.social
With @babajideowoyele.bsky.social @Davide Ahmar, @sabinehunnius.bsky.social @carorowland.bsky.social @yayun23.bsky.social
July 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Our @dondersinst.bsky.social funded collaboration project EnvisionBoxBaby is in full swing. Leveraging object detection for eye tracking-object dynamics.
With @babajideowoyele.bsky.social @Davide Ahmar, @sabinehunnius.bsky.social @carorowland.bsky.social @yayun23.bsky.social
With @babajideowoyele.bsky.social @Davide Ahmar, @sabinehunnius.bsky.social @carorowland.bsky.social @yayun23.bsky.social
I am excited to share the abstract video to our study on Joint Attention in Signing Caregiver-Child Dyads!
youtu.be/M8EUU1_p4so
youtu.be/M8EUU1_p4so
July 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I am excited to share the abstract video to our study on Joint Attention in Signing Caregiver-Child Dyads!
youtu.be/M8EUU1_p4so
youtu.be/M8EUU1_p4so
Exciting news - three years after visiting @amymlieberman.bsky.social in Boston for 6 wonderful weeks, our project on joint attention and sign familiarity in ASL has been published!
Caregivers use joint attention to support sign language acquisition in deaf children. New paper by @jennisander.bsky.social , @carorowland.bsky.social & Amy M. Lieberman.
doi.org/10.1111/desc.70034
doi.org/10.1111/desc.70034
Caregivers Use Joint Attention to Support Sign Language Acquisition in Deaf Children
Children's ability to share attention with another social partner (joint attention) plays an important role in language development. However, our understanding of the role of joint attention comes ma....
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June 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Exciting news - three years after visiting @amymlieberman.bsky.social in Boston for 6 wonderful weeks, our project on joint attention and sign familiarity in ASL has been published!
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Watch and learn. 👀 🧠
I’ve written often about how infants learn language not just with their ears, but with their eyes.
But I’ve rarely run across a better video example than this lovely moment shared to IG by seanandcaitlin.
(Thread 🧵)
I’ve written often about how infants learn language not just with their ears, but with their eyes.
But I’ve rarely run across a better video example than this lovely moment shared to IG by seanandcaitlin.
(Thread 🧵)
May 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Watch and learn. 👀 🧠
I’ve written often about how infants learn language not just with their ears, but with their eyes.
But I’ve rarely run across a better video example than this lovely moment shared to IG by seanandcaitlin.
(Thread 🧵)
I’ve written often about how infants learn language not just with their ears, but with their eyes.
But I’ve rarely run across a better video example than this lovely moment shared to IG by seanandcaitlin.
(Thread 🧵)
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In 2025 I’m writing threads summarising papers by my amazing team here at MPI-PL. No.4: Sander, Zhang & Rowland on learning in multimodal interaction:Commentary on Karadöller, Sümer & Özyürek @yayun23.bsky.social
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April 25, 2025 at 4:09 AM
In 2025 I’m writing threads summarising papers by my amazing team here at MPI-PL. No.4: Sander, Zhang & Rowland on learning in multimodal interaction:Commentary on Karadöller, Sümer & Özyürek @yayun23.bsky.social
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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....
Language acquisition occurs in multimodal social interaction
Find it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
April 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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....
Language acquisition occurs in multimodal social interaction
Find it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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1st results from the 1st ever Sign Language of the Netherlands CDI. Results for children's comprehension and production, reliably correlate with age. All the work of the extraordinary Jenni Sander and Dilys Eikelboom @jennisander.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
1st results from the 1st ever Sign Language of the Netherlands CDI. Results for children's comprehension and production, reliably correlate with age. All the work of the extraordinary Jenni Sander and Dilys Eikelboom @jennisander.bsky.social
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!
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!
January 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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!
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!
Reposted by Jenni Sander
You can now find a starter pack with our researchers, alumni and collaborative partners currently on Bluesky. Please dm us to add to the pack. go.bsky.app/rthUcG
December 6, 2024 at 5:19 PM
You can now find a starter pack with our researchers, alumni and collaborative partners currently on Bluesky. Please dm us to add to the pack. go.bsky.app/rthUcG