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...

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

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

I am excited to share the abstract video to our study on Joint Attention in Signing Caregiver-Child Dyads!
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!

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 🧵)

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
@jennisander.bsky.social
@mpi-nl.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/

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....

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!

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