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  1. It is not always a matter of time: Addressing the costs of metaphor and metonymy through a speed-accuracy trade-off study.

    Article • Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, June 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Petra Schumacher

  2. Discrete dimension accessibility in multidimensional concepts

    Article • The Mental Lexicon, August 2018, John Benjamins

    Dr Galit Weidman Sassoon, Petra Schumacher

  3. A direct comparison of metonymic and metaphoric relations in adjective–noun pairs

    Article • Acta Linguistica Academica, June 2018, Akademiai Kiado

    Petra Schumacher

  4. On type composition and agentivity

    Article • Theoretical Linguistics, May 2018, De Gruyter

    Petra Schumacher

  5. Artist-for-work metonymy

    Article • The Mental Lexicon, December 2017, John Benjamins

    Petra Schumacher

  6. Semantic-Pragmatic Processing

    Article • September 2017, Wiley

    Petra Schumacher

  7. Punctuation, Prosody, and Discourse: Afterthought Vs. Right Dislocation

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, December 2015, Frontiers

    Petra Schumacher

  8. Age-Related Changes in Predictive Capacity Versus Internal Model Adaptability: Electrophysiological Evidence that Individual Differences Outweigh Effects of Age

    Article • Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, November 2015, Frontiers

    Petra Schumacher

  9. Backward- and Forward-Looking Potential of Anaphors

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, November 2015, Frontiers

    Petra Schumacher

  10. The role of literal meaning in figurative language comprehension: evidence from masked priming ERP

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, August 2014, Frontiers

    Petra Schumacher

  11. Animacy matters: ERP evidence for the multi-dimensionality of topic-worthiness in Chinese

    Article • Brain Research, March 2014, Elsevier

    Petra Schumacher

  12. Referential properties of definites and salience spreading

    Article • January 2014, John Benjamins

    Petra Schumacher

  13. Content and context in incremental processing: “the ham sandwich” revisited

    Article • Philosophical Studies, July 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Petra Schumacher

  14. Differentiating among pragmatic uses of words through timed sensicality judgments

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2013, Frontiers

    Petra Schumacher

  15. New is not always costly: evidence from online processing of topic and contrast in Japanese

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2013, Frontiers

    Petra Schumacher

  16. When combinatorial processing results in reconceptualization: toward a new approach of compositionality

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2013, Frontiers

    Petra Schumacher

  17. Event-related brain potentials of masked repetition and semantic priming while listening to sentences

    Article • Neuroscience Letters, November 2012, Elsevier

    Petra Schumacher

  18. What is a Context?

    Article • October 2012, John Benjamins

    Dr Rita Finkbeiner, Petra Schumacher

  19. Positional influences on information packaging: Insights from topological fields in German

    Article • Journal of Memory and Language, August 2012, Elsevier

    Petra Schumacher

  20. Topicality matters: Position-specific demands on Chinese discourse processing

    Article • Neuroscience Letters, March 2012, Elsevier

    Petra Schumacher

  21. (De-)Accentuation and the Processing of Information Status: Evidence from Event-Related Brain Potentials

    Article • Language and Speech, November 2011, SAGE Publications

    Petra Schumacher

  22. Reversibility in Chinese word formation influences target identification

    Article • Neuroscience Letters, July 2011, Elsevier

    Petra Schumacher

  23. Context and topic marking affect distinct processes during discourse comprehension in Japanese

    Article • Journal of Neurolinguistics, May 2011, Elsevier

    Petra Schumacher

  24. Register affects language comprehension: ERP evidence from article omission in newspaper headlines

    Article • Journal of Neurolinguistics, May 2011, Elsevier

    Petra Schumacher

  25. Perspective in the Processing of the Chinese Reflexive ziji: ERP Evidence

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Petra Schumacher

  26. Constraints on ontology changing complexation processes: Evidence from event-related brain potentials

    Article • Language and Cognitive Processes, July 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Petra Schumacher

  27. Reference assignment in Dutch: Evidence for the syntax–discourse divide

    Article • Lingua, July 2010, Elsevier

    Petra Schumacher

  28. Pitch accent type affects the N400 during referential processing

    Article • Neuroreport, June 2010, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Petra Schumacher

  29. Experimental evidence for minimal structure

    Article • Lingua, October 2009, Elsevier

    Petra Schumacher

  30. Definiteness Marking Shows Late Effects during Discourse Processing: Evidence from ERPs

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Petra Schumacher

  31. Semantic composition engenders an N400: evidence from Chinese compounds

    Article • Neuroreport, April 2008, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Petra Schumacher

  32. Slower-than-normal syntactic processing in agrammatic Broca's aphasia: Evidence from Dutch

    Article • Journal of Neurolinguistics, March 2008, Elsevier

    Petra Schumacher

  33. The P600 reflects cost of new information in discourse memory

    Article • Neuroreport, November 2007, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Petra Schumacher

  34. Effects of (in)transitivity on structure building and agreement

    Article • Brain Research, August 2007, Elsevier

    Petra Schumacher

  35. Differential effects of saliency: An event-related brain potential study

    Article • Neuroscience Letters, February 2007, Elsevier

    Petra Schumacher

  36. Inferential bridging relations reveal distinct neural mechanisms: Evidence from event-related brain potentials

    Article • Brain and Language, August 2006, Elsevier

    Petra Schumacher

  37. Slow sentence processing in agrammatic Broca’s aphasia: Evidence from Dutch reflexive-antecedent dependencies

    Article • Brain and Language, October 2005, Elsevier

    Petra Schumacher

  38. The Syntax–Discourse Interface

    Article • September 2005, John Benjamins

    Petra Schumacher

  39. The role of the anterior left hemisphere in real-time sentence comprehension: Evidence from split intransitivity

    Article • Brain and Language, July 2003, Elsevier

    Petra Schumacher

  40. Pragmatic inferencing and expert knowledge

    Article • De Gruyter

    Petra Schumacher

  41. Thematic role as prominence cue during pronoun resolution in German

    Article • De Gruyter

    Petra Schumacher