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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 Sept. 2024] is available here. Contact: [email protected] Google Scholar | ResearchGate | LinkedIn |
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Upcoming
August 2024: Exploring speaker mental representations of noun classes: a Lubukusu case study (with Travis Major & Justine Sikuku) at the 11th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL) held in Nairobi, Kenya.
September 2024: Using Mouse Tracking for Reading (MoTR) to investigate the processing of agreement errors (with Metehan Oğuz, Cui Ding, Ethan Wilcox, Lena Jäger) at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) |
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] |
