Prof. Dr. Petra Schumacher

Professorin für Sprachwissenschaft des Deutschen / Empirische Sprachwissenschaft

Institut für deutsche Sprache und Literatur I 

Sprachwissenschaft
Albertus-Magnus-Platz 
D-50923 Köln

Raum: Philosophikum 2.124
Tel:     0221 - 470 - 2696
Fax:    0221 - 470 - 5107
E-Mail: petra.schumacher(at)uni-koeln.de

Wichtigste Forschungsschwerpunkte

Experimentelle Pragmatik

Psycho/Neurolinguistik

Kommunikation in Interaktion

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Aktuelle Publikationen

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.