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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 Nov. 2024] is available here. Contact: [email protected] Google Scholar | ResearchGate | LinkedIn |
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Upcoming
December 2024: When number and gender compete: On the interaction between agreement features during language processing in heritage bilinguals
Linguistics Colloquium at CUNY Graduate Center May 2025: The Polish Animate Accusative: What eye-tracking reveals about competing grammatical and semantic animacy agreement features Plenary talk at Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 34 (FASL) at Cornell University |
Most recentPublished: Fuchs, Z., & Zeng, W. (2024). Facilitative Processing of Grammatical Gender in Heritage Speakers with Two Gender Systems. Heritage Language Journal, 21(1), 1-33. https://doi.org/10.1163/15507076-bja10028
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 mediaInterview with Coopernicus
Appearance 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] |