Note: all slides, posters, and handouts are available upon request.

2025

• Keynote speaker | Heritage languages & language processing: how new methods shed light on the topic of grammatical gender
  ​CSU Fullerton, Modern Languages and Literatures Student Conferenc
• Effects of surprisal and contextual entropy on L2 and heritage language processing [poster]
  Human Sentence Processing (HSP) at Univ. of Maryland
  Authors: Hailin Hao, Zuzanna Fuchs
• Higher syntactic complexity requires more listening effort for Spanish-English bilinguals [poster]
  Human Sentence Processing (HSP) at Univ. of Maryland
  Authors: Zuzanna Fuchs, John Muegge, Christine Shea
• Animate-accusative agreement marking in Polish activates both semantic and grammatical animacy: eye-tracking evidence [poster]
  Human Sentence Processing (HSP) at Univ. of Maryland
  Authors: Zuzanna Fuchs, Anna Runova
• Heritage Speakers of Spanish pattern with Spanish-dominant speakers in facilitative processing of gender & number agreement [poster]
  Human Sentence Processing (HSP) at Univ. of Maryland
• Syntactic islands as a gradient phenomenon: Evidence from Vietnamese [poster] 
  Human Sentence Processing (HSP) at Univ. of Maryland
  Authors: Linh Pham, Elsi Kaiser, Zuzanna Fuchs

2024

• Colloquium | When number and gender compete: On the interaction between agreement features during language processing in heritage bilinguals 
  CUNY Graduate Center, Dept. of Linguistics
• Colloquium | Using Mouse Tracking for Reading (MoTR) to investigate agreement and attachment in online language comprehension
  Marburg University, Institute for German Linguistics (Germany)
  Authors: Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Metehan Oğuz, Cui Ding, Lena Jäger, Zuzanna Fuchs
• Invited panelist | Editorial requirements and manuscript preparation 
  Sharpening the Lens: Enhancing Linguistics Career Prospects
  in East Africa, Writing Workshop 2 (Moi University, Kenya)
  Authors: Zuzanna Fuchs & Travis Major
• Colloquium | Number and gender agreement during real-time language comprehension in Heritage Spanish 
  UCLA, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese
• Invited panelist | The processing of number and gender features in Heritage Spanish: Insights from eye-tracking
  15th Heritage Language Research Institute (UC Irvine)
• Invited panelist | Experimental work and fieldwork on understudied and heritage languages 
  University of Maryland, Mayfest
• Keynote speaker | Heritage speakers: language processing, noun categorization, and the mental lexicon
  CSU Fullerton, Linguistics Symposium
• Using Mouse Tracking for Reading (MoTR) to investigate the processing of agreement errors
  Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) at Univ. of Edinburgh, UK
  Authors: Metehan Oğuz, Cui Ding, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Lena Jäger, Zuzanna Fuchs
• Processing of External vs. Internal Agreement  
  MultiplEYE Midterm Conference at University of New York in Tirana, Albania
  Authors: Zuzanna Fuchs, Olga Parshina, Irina Sekerina, Maria Polinsky
• Exploring speaker mental representations of noun classes: a Lubukusu case study 
  11th World Congress of African Linguistics at Univ. of Nairobi, Kenya
  Authors: Zuzanna Fuchs, Travis Major, Justine Mukhwana Sikuku
• How does dependency type mediate gender agreement in Russian? [poster]
  Cognitive Science Society (CogSci) in Rotterdam, Netherlands
  Authors: Cui Ding, Metehan Oğuz, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Zuzanna Fuchs
• Greta is a female director: when gender stereotypes interact with informativity expectations [poster]
  Cognitive Science Society (CogSci) in Rotterdam, Netherlands
  Authors: Muxuan He, Hailin Hao, Zuzanna Fuchs
• Processing of agreement vs concord: evidence from Russian mouse-tracking
  Psycholinguistics of Slavic Languages (PsychoSlav2024) at Univ. of Wrocław, Poland
  Authors: Cui Ding, Metehan Oğuz, Zuzanna Fuchs, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Olga Parshina, Maria Polinsky
• Independent processing of gender and animacy agreement features in Polish [poster]
  Psycholinguistics of Slavic Languages (PsychoSlav2024) at Univ. of Wrocław, Poland
• Are Informativity-Based Linguistic Predictions Driven by Gender Stereotypes? [poster]
  Human Sentence Processing (HSP) at Univ. of Michigan
  Authors: Hailin Hao, Muxuan He, Zuzanna Fuchs
• Investigating properties of mental representation in noun similarity judgements in Lubukusu
  55th Annual Conference on African Linguistics at McGill Univ., Canada
  Authors: Zuzanna Fuchs, Travis Major, Justine Mukhwana Sikuku

2023

• Invited commentary | BECHS-Africa workshop 
  Washington University in St. Louis
• Colloquium | Measuring the listening effort required to process a heritage language: a dual task study on Heritage Spanish
  University of Cologne, Dept. of Romance Studies (Germany)
• Colloquium | Polish agreement morphemes: how animacy and grammatical gender interact during language processing
  University of Warsaw, Faculty of Psychology (Poland)
• Invited talk | A unique profile of bilingual acquisition: the case for heritage speakers 
  University of Warsaw, Faculty of Psychology, Naukowe Wtorki (Poland)
• Invited talk | Listening effort in processing a non-dominant language: a dual task study of Heritage Spanish speakers
  UC San Diego, Center for Research in Language                
• External lab talk | Bilingual groups may vary in the effort required to process a non-dominant language: a dual task study
  UC Irvine, Bilingualism, Mind & Brain Lab
• Invited panelist | Experimental Approaches to Heritage Languages 
  14th Heritage Language Research Institute at UCLA
• Similarity-Based Interferences in Chinese Classifier-Noun Dependencies     
  Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing in Asia (AMLaP Asia)
  Authors: Hailin Hao, Zuzanna Fuchs, Shravan Vasishth
• Similarity-based interferences in Chinese classifier-noun dependences 
  Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL) at Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland
  Authors: Hailin Hao, Zuzanna Fuchs, Shravan Vasishth
• Processing agreement morphology indexing more than one feature activates both features independently: Evidence from Polish VWP
  Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) in San Sebastián, Spain
• Facilitative use of grammatical gender & congruency effects in early and late Spanish-German bilinguals
  International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB14) at Macquarie Univ., Australia
• Psycholinguistic evidence for animate as a subgender of masculine in Polish 
  Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) at Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Independent processing of animacy and gender features in Polish: eyetracking evidence [poster] 
  Human Sentence Processing (HSP) at Univ. of Pittsburgh

2022

• Facilitative use of grammatical gender by Heritage Speakers of Polish: Evidence for access to abstract syntactic features in real-time processing [poster]
  4th International Symposium on Bilingual & L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC)
• Heritage speakers’ ability to use gender in online processing: Evidence from eye-tracking
  Heritage Languages Around the World (HLAW)

2021

• Diminutives in the Bantu language family: In support of DM and grammatical gender on n
  Dissecting morphological theory 2: Diminutivization in root-, stem- and word-based morphology. ​
  ​Authors: Zuzanna Fuchs & Jenneke van der Wal
• Invited panelist | Workshop on Statistical Methods in Heritage Language Research
  13th Heritage Language Research Institute
• Colloquium | Gender restructuring in heritage languages: Implications for structure and processing
  University of Southern California

2020

• The influence of dominant language on gender processing in heritage speakers: evidence from eyetracking
  International Conference on Bilingualism, Heritage Languages, and Migration. 
  ​Authors: Zuzanna Fuchs & Wenqi Zeng
• Hierarchical structure of Polish gender: Evidence from eye-tracking
  94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA)

2019

• Invited talk | Facilitative use of grammatical gender: comparing heritage speaker groups
  Gender in heritage languages and grammar change at MultiGender project at the Centre for Advanced Study (Oslo, Norway)
• Invited talk | The Psycholinguistics of Grammatical Gender in the Polish Diaspora
  The Polish Scientific Network of Boston
• Invited talk | Predictive use of grammatical gender in Heritage Spanish and Heritage Polish
  University of Göttingen, Department of English Linguistics
• External lab talk | Predictive use of gender in eye-tracking: asymmetries between Heritage Spanish and Heritage Polish
  DPKog, Heidelberg University, Language & Cognition Lab
• Colloquium | Theoretical syntax in the experimental setting: evidence from agreement attraction
  University of Florida, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
• Colloquium | Gender in the Heritage Language Grammar: Evidence from eye-tracking
  University of Iowa, Department of Linguistics
• Gender on n in Bantu DP structure
  Cambridge Comparative Syntax (CamCoS 8)
  Collaborative work with Jenneke van der Wal

2018

• External reading group talk | Gender on n in Bantu DP Structure, from root-derived nominals to locatives
  Syntax Brown Bag, NYU
  Collaborative work with Jenneke van der Wal
• External reading group talk | DP structure in Bantu languages: How far can we get with gender on n?
  SMircle, Stanford University
  Collaborative work with Jenneke van der Wal
• Bantu DP Structure: An extension of the n analysis of gender
  Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Gender (ThEGen)
  Collaborative work with Jenneke van der Wal
• Bantu DP Structure: an n analysis.
  92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
  Collaborative work with Jenneke van der Wal

2017

• Bantu locatives: variation in internal structure.
  ​47th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics
  Collaborative work with Jenneke van der Wal
• An acoustic examination of pre- and post-semester narratives from a heritage Spanish class.
  11th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB11)
  Collaborative work with Rajiv Rao, Margaryta Bondarenko, Erwin Lares, Maria Polinsky, María Luisa Parra, Marta Llorente Bravo
• Restructuring in heritage grammars
  Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW40)
  Collaborative work with Maria Polinsky and Greg Scontras​
• Movement vs. base-generation in Georgian split DPs
  91st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA)

2016

• A base-generation approach to Georgian split DPs
  South Caucasian Chalk Circle
• An ellipsis analysis of discontinuous DPs in Georgian
  Cambridge Comparative Syntax (CamCoS 5)
• Explaining Heritage Spanish: Transfer, attrition, or universal principles?
  3rd National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language
  ​Collaborative work with Maria Polinsky and Greg Scontras
• External reading group talk | Focus/Topic distinctions as the driving force of split DPs in Georgian
  Syntax-Semantics Reading Group (LFRG), MIT
• External reading group talk | Representation of Number and Gender in Native and Heritage Spanish Grammars
  Experimental Syntax and Semantics Lab, MIT
• Inuktitut Mood-Agreement Interactions as Contextual Allomorphy
  The 90th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
  Collaborative work with Michelle Yuan and Ruth Brillman

2015

• Contrast vs New Information Focus in Floating Clitics in Wakhi
• Semantics of African, Asian, and Australian Languages 2 (TripleA2)
• Null Arguments and Variation in the Availability of Coordinated-WH Questions
  Cambridge Comparative Syntax (CamCoS 4)
• External reading group talk | pro-drop and Coordinated-WH Questions: Further Challenges for Multidominance and Ellipsis
  Syntax-Semantics Reading Group (LFRG), MIT
• Toward a Focus Analysis of Almost Wackernagel Clitics in Wakhi
  Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS), 41st Annual Meeting
• Determining the Syntactic Source of Variation in Availability of Coordinated-WH Questions
  The 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA)​

2014

• ​Toward a Focus Analysis of Almost Wackernagel Clitics in Wakhi
• Southern New England Workshop in Linguistics (SNEWS)
• A Differential Representation of Gender and Number in Spanish
  Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) 37
  Collaborative work with Maria Polinsky and Greg Scontras. Slides.

2013

• Invited talk | English Vocabulary Items in Native Polish Speech – in Poland & in the American Diaspora
  University of Greifswald
• External lab talk | Number and Gender: The Nature and Content of Agreement Features
  Harvard University Laboratory for Developmental Studies
  Collaborative work with Maria Polinsky and Greg Scontras
• Gender and Analogical Extension: From Animacy to Borrowings in Polish
  8th Annual Slavic Linguistics Society Conference
• The Morphology of English Nouns in Polish – On Gender and an Unusual Path of Analogical Extension: From Animacy to Borrowings
• 58th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association​