Prof. Dr. Petra Schumacher

Professor of German Linguistics / Empirical Linguistics

Institute for German Language and Literature I 

Linguistics
Albertus-Magnus-Platz 
D-50923 Köln

Office: Philosophikum, room 2.124
Phone: +49 - 221 - 470 - 2696
Fax:    +49 -  221 - 470 - 5107
Email: petra.schumacher(at)uni-koeln.de

Office Hours

Student requests to schumacher-infouni-koeln.de.

My zoom office hours are on Fridays 1-2pm. Please sing up on the scheduler of UoC.

Recent Publications

Lialiou, Maria, Martine Grice, Christine Röhr & Petra B. Schumacher. (2024). Auditory processing of intonational rises and falls in German: Rises are special in attention orienting. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 36, 6, 1099-1122. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_02129. 

Lialiou, Maria, Jesse Harris, Martine Grice & Petra B. Schumacher. (2024). Attention allocation to deviants with intonational rises and falls: Evidence from pupillometry. In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of Cognitive Science Society, 46, 667-674. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/68q9c2r8.

Patil, Umesh, Stefan Hinterwimmer & Petra B. Schumacher. (2023). Effect of evaluative expressions on two types of demonstrative pronouns in German. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 8, 1, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.9577.

Patterson, Clare & Petra B. Schumacher. (2023). How focus and position affect the interpretation of demonstrative pronouns. Collabra: Psychology, 9, 1, 75350. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.75350 [Registered Report].

Patterson Clare, Petra B. Schumacher, Bruno Nicenboim, Johannes Hagen & Andrew Kehler. (2022). A Bayesian Approach to German Personal and Demonstrative Pronouns. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 672927. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.672927.

Repp, Magdalena & Petra B. Schumacher. (2023). What naturalistic stimuli tell us about pronoun resolution in real-time processing. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 6, 1058554. https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2023.1058554.

Repp, Magdalena, Petra B. Schumacher & Fahime Same. (2023). Multi-layered annotation of conversation-like narratives in German. Proceedings of the 17th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVII), 61-72. Toronto: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 

Schumacher, Petra B., Clare Patterson & Magdalena Repp. (2024). Famous protagonists interfere with discourse topicality during pronoun resolution. Glossa Psycholinguistics 3(1): 9, 1-30.

Schumacher, Petra B., Hanna Weiland-Breckle, Guendalina Reul & Ingmar Brilmayer. (2023). Tracking meaning evolution in the brain: Processing consequences of conventionalization. Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105598.

Spruijt, Door, Pamela Perniss & Petra B. Schumacher. (2023). The contribution of individual parameters to perceived iconicity and transparency in gesture-sign pairs. FEAST. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory, 2023, Vol. 5, 194-209, https://doi.org/10.31009/FEAST.i5.16.

Research Projects

Momentum Project "Communication electrified - towards a natural investigation of real-time language processing"

Project within the SFB 2329 "The gesture-to-sign trajectory: Phonological parameters in production and real-time comprehension" (with Pamela Perniss)

Speaker of SFB 1252 "Prominence in Language"

Project within SFB 1252 "Forward and backward functions of discourse anaphora"  

Project within SFB 1252 "Intonation and attention orienting: Neurophysiological and behavioral correlates" (with Martine Grice)

Project within SFB 1252 "Prominence and predictive processing" (mit Martine Grice & Nikolaus Himmelmann)     

Project within the Key Profile Area “Skills and Structures in Language and Cognition”