Beyza Sümer
List of John Benjamins publications in which Beyza Sümer is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1387-9316 | E‑ISSN 1569‑996X
2025 Action bias in describing object locations by signing children Sign Language & Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study investigates the role of action bias in the acquisition of classifier constructions by deaf children acquiring Turkish Sign Language (TİD). While classifier handshapes are morphologically complex and iconic, deaf children (aged 7–9) were found to prefer handling classifiers… read more
2022 Learning to introduce referents in narration is resilient to the effects of late sign language exposure Sign Language & Linguistics 25:2, pp. 205–234 | Article
The present study investigates the effects of late sign language exposure on narrative development in Turkish Sign Language (TİD) by focusing on the introductions of main characters and the linguistic strategies used in these introductions. We study these domains by comparing narrations produced… read more
2017 Chapter 14. A first study on the development of spatial viewpoint in sign language acquisition: The case of Turkish Sign Language Social Environment and Cognition in Language Development: Studies in honor of Ayhan Aksu-Koç, Ketrez, F. Nihan, Aylin C. Küntay, Şeyda Özçalışkan and Aslı Özyürek (eds.), pp. 223–240 | Chapter
The current study examines, for the first time, the viewpoint preferences of signing children in expressing spatial relations that require imposing a viewpoint (left-right, front-behind). We elicited spatial descriptions from deaf children (4–9 years of age) acquiring Turkish Sign Language (TİD)… read more
2016 Scene-setting and referent introduction in sign and spoken languages: What does modality tell us? The Acquisition of Turkish in Childhood, Haznedar, Belma and F. Nihan Ketrez (eds.), pp. 193–220 | Chapter
Previous studies show that children do not become adult-like in learning to set the scene and introduce referents in their narrations until 9 years of age and even beyond. However, they investigated spoken languages, thus we do not know much about how these skills are acquired in sign languages,… read more