Fuchs, Zuzanna & Anna Runova. Accepted. Questions in the study of Slavic facultative animacy: the view from psycholinguistics and first language acquisition of Polish. In W. Browne & M. Despić (Eds.), Proceedings of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 34 [Special Issue]. Journal of Slavic Linguistics. Accepted manuscript
Fuchs, Zuzanna, Travis Major, Justine Mukhwana Sikuku & Catherine Pan. Submitted. Toward the development of a crowd-sourced lexical database for Lubukusu: A focus on nouns & noun classes. Selected Papers from the 56th Annual Conference on African Linguistics [Special Issue]. Contemporary African Linguistics. Submitted manuscript
Fuchs, Zuzanna, Travis Major & Justine Mukhwana Sikuku. Submitted. A triad study of noun similarity judgments in Lubukusu: the role of abstract grammatical gender. Selected Papers from the 55th Annual Conference on African Linguistics [Special Issue]. Contemporary African Linguistics. Submitted manuscript
Peer-reviewed publications
Zuzanna Fuchs, John Muegge, Christine Shea. 2026. Do Heritage Speakers work harder in their heritage language? A dual task study of cognitive effort in bilingual language processing. Bilingualism: Language & Cognition.https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728926101308
Zuzanna Fuchs, Esra Eldem-Tunç, Linh Pham, Leo Mermelstein & Anna Runova. 2026. When gender meets number: facilitative processing of one versus two features on Spanish definite articles. Insights in Psycholinguistics: 2025 [Special Issue]. Frontiers in Language Sciences 5:1760372. https://doi.org/10.3389/flang.2026.1760372
Oğuz, Metehan, Cui Ding, Ethan Wilcox & Zuzanna Fuchs. 2025. Using MoTR to probe gender agreement processing in Russian. Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science, 9, 1682-1710. https://doi.org/10.1162/OPMI.a.35
Fuchs, Zuzanna. 2025. Masculine animate as a subgender of masculine in Polish: evidence from psycholinguistics. Proceedings of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 32 [Special Issue]. Journal of Slavic Linguistics, 33, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1353/jsl.2025.a970002
Fuchs, Zuzanna, Emma Kealey, Esra Eldem-Tunç, Leo Mermelstein, Linh Pham, Anna Runova, Yue Chen, Metehan Oğuz, Seoyoon Hong, Catherine Pan, JK Subramony. 2025. Measuring adult heritage language lexical proficiency for studies on facilitative processing of gender. In O. Ivanova & Ó. Loureda (Eds.), Language Processing in Spanish Heritage Speakers [Special issue]. Languages, 10(8), 189. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10080189
Fuchs, Zuzanna. 2025. Independent processing of lexical agreement features: Evidence from Polish. Language, Cognition & Neuroscience, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2025.2489611
Hao, Hailin, Zuzanna Fuchs & Shravan Vasishth. 2025. Similarity-Based Interferences in the Processing of Classifier-Noun Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Memory & Language, 144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2025.104669
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
Fuchs, Zuzanna and Wenqi Zeng. 2024. Facilitative use of grammatical gender in Heritage speakers with two gender systems. Heritage Language Journal, 21(1). https://doi.org/10.1163/15507076-bja10028
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
Fuchs, Zuzanna. 2023. Processing of grammatical gender agreement morphemes in Polish: evidence from the Visual World Paradigm. Morphology, 34. 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-023-09418-3
Fuchs, Zuzanna. 2022. Eyetracking evidence for heritage speakers’ access to abstract syntactic agreement features in real-time processing. In F. Bayram, M. Kubota & S. Soares. (Eds.), The Next Phase in Heritage Language Studies: Methodological Considerations and Advancements [Special Issue]. Frontiers of Psychology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.960376
Fuchs, Zuzanna & Jenneke van der Wal. 2021. The locus of parametric variation in Bantu gender and nominal derivation. Linguistic Variation, 22(1). 267-323. http://doi.org/10.1075/lv.20007.fuc
Fuchs, Zuzanna. 2021. Facilitative use of grammatical gender in Heritage Spanish. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 12(6). 845-871. http://doi.org/10.1075/lab.20024.fuc
Rao, Rajiv, Zuzanna Fuchs, Maria Polinsky & María Luisa Parra. 2020. The Sound Pattern of Heritage Spanish: An Exploratory Study on the Effects of a Classroom Experience. Languages, 5(4). 72.https://doi.org/10.3390/languages5040072
Scontras, Gregory, Maria Polinsky & Zuzanna Fuchs. 2018. In support of representational economy: Agreement in heritage Spanish. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.164
Fuchs, Zuzanna, Maria Polinsky & Gregory Scontras. 2015. The Differential Representation of Number and Gender in Spanish. The Linguistic Review, 32. 703 – 737. https://doi.org/10.1515/tlr-2015-0008
Scontras, Gregory, Zuzanna Fuchs & Maria Polinsky. 2015. Heritage Language and Linguistic Theory. In A. Alexiadou & T. Lohndal (Eds.), The Grammar of Multilingualism [Special Issue], Frontiers of Psychology, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01545
Conference proceedings
Eldem-Tunç, Esra, Zuzanna Fuchs &Elsi Kaiser. 2025. Interpretation of Verbal Ellipsis in Monolinguals and Heritage Speakers. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 10(1): 5953. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v10i1.5953
Eldem-Tunç, Esra & Zuzanna Fuchs. 2024. Morphological Decomposition in Heritage Turkish in the US. In Y.-H. Kim & B. Öney (Eds.), Proceedings of Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic 9. 89-105. https://doi.org/10.3765/v73aqx67
Hao, Hailin, Muxuan He & Zuzanna Fuchs. 2024. Greta is a female director: When gender stereotypes interact with informativity expectations. In L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey, & E. Hazeltine (Eds.), Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. 4159-4165. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/49d0685w
Fuchs, Zuzanna. Second Position and “Floating” Clitics in Wakhi. 2015. In A.E. Jurgensen, H. Sande, S. Lamoureux, K. Baclawski, & A. Zerbe (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 133-154. https://doi.org/10.20354/B4414110025
Chapters
Fuchs, Zuzanna & Irina Sekerina. 2025. New evidence for the role of morphological markedness of gender agreement cues in monolingual and bilingual heritage facilitative processing. In L. Clemens, V. Gribanova, & G. Scontras (Eds.), Syntax in Uncharted Territories: Essays in honor of Maria Polinsky, Department of Language Science, University of California, Irvine. 215-232. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0xj6b5t3
Fuchs, Zuzanna, Maria Polinsky & Gregory Scontras. 2024. Explaining gender: Lessons from Heritage Spanish. In K. Grohmann (Ed.), Multifaceted Multilingualism. 292-396. https://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.66.12fuc
Fuchs, Zuzanna. 2021. Heritage Spanish in the US: How Heritage Languages Can Contribute to Disentangling Factors Driving Language Development. Estudios del Observatorio/Observatorio Studies. http://doi.org/10.15427/OR070-04/2021EN
Fuchs, Zuzanna. 2014. Gender and Analogical Extension: From Animacy to Borrowings in Polish. In A. Katny & S. M. Newerkla (Eds.), New Insights into Slavic Linguistics. Sprach- und Kulturkontakte in Europas Mitte. Studien zur Slawistik und Germanistik, 3. 115 – 127. https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:203651370