I am an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Southern California and the director of the Psycholinguistics of Mono- and Multilingualism Lab (PoMMLab) at USC. My research focuses on noun categorization systems, including grammatical gender, animacy, and noun classes. I use formal and psycholinguistic methods to understand how noun category information is represented in the grammar, how it is stored in the mental lexicon, and how it is accessed during real-time processing of agreement. My research targets both monolingual and bilingual speakers (especially heritage speakers) of languages with noun categorization systems.
My CV [updated Dec. 2023] is available here. Contact: zfuchs@usc.edu Google Scholar | ResearchGate | LinkedIn |
Upcoming
May 2024: Investigating properties of mental representation in noun similarity judgements in Lubukusu at 55th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) with Travis Major & Justine Sikuku
June 2024: Faculty presenter at 15th Heritage Language Research Institute |
Most recentPublished: Lyu, Jun, Zuzanna Fuchs & Elsi Kaiser. 2024. Anticipatory processing of cataphora is constrained by Binding Principle in L2 English. Bilingualism, Language & Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728924000208
Presentation: Processing agreement morphology indexing more than one feature activates both features independently: Evidence from Polish VWP at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) |
In the mediaAppearance as guest expert on LAist's radio show AirTalk, for a segment on re-learning heritage languages
Feature on Coopernicus.pl Profile in USC Dornsife news Feature in Harvard Arts & Humanities Instagram Interview with Dobra Szkoła Nowy Jork: "The bridge between science and teaching done on heritage speakers" [available in Polish and English] |