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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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. 

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.

Forschungsprojekte

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)     

Projekt im Kernprofilbereich “Skills and Structures in Language and Cognition”