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

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Wichtigste Forschungsschwerpunkte
Experimentelle Pragmatik
Informationsstruktur
Psycho/Neurolinguistik
Referenz
Aktuelle Publikationen
Bambini, Valentina, Lewis Bott & Petra B. Schumacher. (2021). It Is Not Always a Matter of Time: Addressing the Costs of Metaphor and Metonymy through a Speed-Accuracy Trade-off Study. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 75, 2, 189–196.
Baumann, Stefan & Petra B. Schumacher. (2020). The Incremental Processing of Focus, Givenness and Prosodic Prominence. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 5,1, 6.
Fuchs, Melanie & Petra B. Schumacher. (2020). Referential Shift Potential of Demonstrative Pronouns – Evidence from Text Continuation. In: Åshild Næss, Anna Margetts & Yvonne Treis. (Eds.) Demonstratives in Discourse (Topics at the Grammar-Discourse Interface ). Berlin: Language Science Press, 185-213.
Patterson, Clare & Petra B. Schumacher. (2021). Interpretation Preferences in Contexts with three Antecedents: Examining the Role of Prominence in German Pronouns. Applied Psycholinguistics, 1-35.
Patterson, Clare & Petra B. Schumacher. (2020). The Timing of Prominence Information during the Resolution of German Personal and Demonstrative Pronouns. Dialogue & Discourse, 11,1, 1-39.
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. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.672927
Röhr, Christine T., Ingmar Brilmayer, Stefan Baumann, Martine Grice & Petra B. Schumacher. (2020). Signal-Driven and Expectation-Driven Processing of Accent Types. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 36,1, 33-59.
Ruigendijk, Esther & Petra B. Schumacher. (2020). Variation in Reference Assignment Processes. Psycholinguistic Evidence from Germanic Languages. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 23,1.
von Heusinger, Klaus & Petra B. Schumacher. (2019). Discourse Prominence: Definition and Application. Journal of Pragmatics, 154, 117-127.
Schumacher, Petra. B. (2019). Metonymy. In: Chris Cummins & Napoleon Katsos. (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 316-330.
Ventura, Caterina, Martine Grice, Michelina Savino, Diana Kolev, Ingmar Brilmayer & Petra B. Schumacher. (2020). Attention Allocation in a Language with Post-Focal Prominences. NeuroReport, 31, 8, 624-628.
Forschungsprojekte
Sprecherin des SPP 1727 "XPrag.de" (mit Uli Sauerland, ZAS)
Projekt im SPP 1727 "Processing speaker's meaning: Epistemic state, cooperation and commitment"
Momentum Projekt "Communication electrified - towards a natural investigation of real-time language processing"
Projekt im SPP 2329 "Von der Geste zur Gebärde: Phonologische Parameter in der Sprachproduktion und Echtzeitverarbeitung" (mit Pamela Perniss)

Sprecherin des SFB 1252 "Prominence in Language"
Projekt im SFB 1252 "Forward and backward functions of discourse anaphora"
Projekt im SFB 1252 "Intonation and attention orienting: Neurophysiological and behavioral correlates" (mit Martine Grice)
Projekt im SFB 1252 "Prominence and predictive processing" (mit Martine Grice & Nikolaus Himmelmann)
Experimental Linguistics in Cologne