Beyza Sumer, PH.D.
University of Amsterdam
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
About Me
I am an assistant professor at the Department of Literary Analysis & Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam. I mainly teach in the Sign Language Linguistics program (Psycholinguistics of Sign Language, Introduction to Sign Linguistics, Transcription of Sign Languages) as well as in the general Linguistics program (First Language Acquisition, Language and Speech Disorders). I am also an affiliated researcher in the Multimodal Language and Cognition Lab at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
Video Series
ELANport
ELANport is a digital platform that includes short training videos with introductory information on how to use ELAN. Recent years have witnessed increasing momentum on sign language related studies, which has resulted in the accumulation of sign language data to be analysed.
Latest Posts
Face masks, social distance, staying at home… Have you ever thought how they have affected the lives of the deaf people? This …
Here is a summary video of my recent article with Asli Ozyurek (Journal of Child Language, 2020) in Turkish Sign Language with …
