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
Main Research Topics
Experimental pragmatics
Psycho/Neurolinguistics
Communication in Interaction
Information structure
Reference
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.
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. & Doris Mücke. (2026). Experimentelle Methoden: Eine Einführung. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler. https://link.springer.com/book/9783476057815
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”
Speaker of CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language"
Project within CRC 1252 "Forward and backward functions of discourse anaphora" (with Ingmar Brilmayer)
Project within CRC 1252 "Intonation and attention orienting: Neurophysiological and behavioral correlates" (with Martine Grice)
Project within CRC 1252 "Prominence and predictive processing" (with Martine Grice & Nikolaus Himmelmann)
Project within the SFB 2329 "The gesture-to-sign trajectory: Phonological parameters in production and real-time comprehension" (with Pamela Perniss)
Project within the Key Profile Area Skills and Structures in Language and Cognition “Linguistic structures in face-to-face interaction"
Director: Experimental Linguistics in Cologne
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