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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 April 2025] is available here. Contact: [email protected] Google Scholar | ResearchGate | LinkedIn |
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Upcoming talks
May 2025
Plenary talk | The Polish Animate Accusative: What eye-tracking reveals about competing grammatical and semantic animacy agreement features Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 34 (FASL) June 2025 Experimental Panel | The effect of noun transparency on heritage speakers' word recognition: insights from incremental language processing 16th Heritage Language Research Institute |
Most recent publicationsFuchs, Zuzanna. 2025. Independent processing of lexical agreement features: Evidence from Polish. Language, Cognition & Neuroscience, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2025.2489611
Fuchs, Zuzanna, Olga Parshina, Irina Sekerina & Maria Polinsky. 2025. Processing of verbal versus adjectival agreement: Implications for syntax and psycholinguistics. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.11173 |
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] |