Here are my profiles on Research gate, Google Scholar profile and ORCID.

Here are my profiles on Research gate, Google Scholar profile and ORCID.

Schuhmann, Katharina (2026). Listening comprehension as a key competence in DaF/DaZ: Challenges, processing models and didactic perspectives. In: Sarah L. Fornol & Nadine Nell-Tuor (eds.), Zuhören in der Schule - interdisziplinär (Mündlichkeit 8 series). Bern: hep, 177-204.

Schuhmann, Katharina & Smith, Laura C. (2025). Interindividual differences in the plural allomorphy of artificial words in L1 and L2 language users. In: Nina Kulovics, Olivier Mentz & Thomas Raith (eds.), Grenzen, Grenzräume, Entgrenzungen: Perspectives in foreign language research (Beiträge zur Fremdsprachenforschung (BFF) 18). Bielefeld: Schneider bei wbv, 251-270. DOI : 10.3278/9783763977932 (Open access)

°Arras, Ulrike & °Schuhmann, Katharina (2025b). Mediation skills in group interaction: Observations and findings from an empirical study with GFL learners. In: Jutta Rymarczyk & Katja Schwemmer (Eds.), LanguageS Learning: Research and Pedagogies on Bi- and Multilingualism (Inquiries in Language Learning / Forschungen zu Psycholinguistik und Fremdsprachendidaktik). Berlin: Peter Lang Verlag, 155-173 (°Authors listed in alphabetical order; both first authors).

°Klosinski, Robert & °Schuhmann, Katharina (2025). Avoiding (total) collapse: On the potential role of maintaining differences between heritage language phonological systems. In: B. Richard Page & Michael T. Putnam (Eds.), Varieties of German in Contact Settings: Studies in Honour of William D. Keel (Studies in Germanic Linguistics 10). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 131-156. DOI: 10.1075/sigl.10.07kl (°Authors listed in alphabetical order; both first authors).

°Arras, Ulrike & °Schuhmann, Katharina (2025a). How learners deal with culturally specific terms: Mediation competences in the university GFL teaching-learning context. In: Nina Kulovics, Olivier Mentz & Thomas Raith (eds.), Grenzen, Grenzräume, Entgrenzungen: Perspektiven in der Fremdsprachenforschung (Beiträge zur Fremdsprachenforschung (BFF) 18).Bielefeld: Schneider bei wbv, 57-73. DOI: 10.3278/9783763977932 (Open access) (°Authors listed in alphabetical order; both first authors.)

Schuhmann, Katharina; Rohloff, Tio & Stolz, Thomas (2025). Foreword. In: Katharina Schuhmann, Tio Rohloff & Thomas Stolz (eds.), Linguistik im Nordwesten. Contributions to the 15th Northwest German Linguistic Colloquium (NWLK) 2023 in Oldenburg (Studies in Linguistics 7). Baden-Baden: Georg Olms Verlag, 7-11. Link (Open access)

Schuhmann, Katharina; Rohloff, Tio & Stolz, Thomas (eds.) (2025). Linguistics in the Northwest. Contributions to the 15th Northwest German Linguistic Colloquium (NWLK) 2023 in Oldenburg(Studies in Linguistics 7). Baden-Baden: Georg Olms Verlag. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783487170473 (Open access)

Schuhmann, Katharina & Smith, Laura C. (2024). From formalism to intuition: Probing the role of the trochee in German nominal plural forms in L1 and L2 German speakers. Frontiers in Language Sciences, Sec. Bilingualism 3: 1338625, 1-27. DOI: 10.3389/flang.2024.1338625 (Open access)

• also published as:

• Schuhmann, Katharina & Smith, Laura C. (2025). From formalism to intuition: Probing the role of the trochee in German nominal plural forms in L1 and L2 German speakers. In: Jennifer Cabrelli, Barış Kabak & John Archibald (Eds.), Formal Approaches to Multilingual Phonology. Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA, 146-172. DOI: 10.3389/978-2-8325-6749-4(Open access)

°Arras, Ulrike & °Schuhmann, Katharina (2024c). The role of language mediation for (foreign) language learning and the further development of (foreign) language teaching (at schools) in the context of multilingualism, migration and educational mission. A statement. Journal of Intercultural Foreign Language Teaching 29(2), 1-15. DOI: 10.48694/zif.3997 (Open access) (°Authors listed in alphabetical order; both first authors. )

• Part of the thematic focus (October 2024):
• Migration-sensitive foreign language teaching - prerequisites, goals and learning opportunities in the so-called third place.
• https://zif.tujournals.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/issue/107/info/

°Arras, Ulrike & °Schuhmann, Katharina (2024b). Mediation in intercultural interaction: Examples from a university working group for German as a foreign language (DaF). Journal for Interaction Research in German as a Foreign Language 4(1), 97-120. DOI: 10.17192/ziaf.2024.4.1.8633 (Open access) (°Authors in alphabetical order; both first authors.)

• Part of volume 4 no. 1 (2024) on the topic:
• Interactions between teaching and lifeworld.
• https://journals.uni-marburg.de/ziaf/issue/view/315

°Arras, Ulrike & °Schuhmann, Katharina (2024a). Inter pares: Mediation in the field of tension between multilingualism, collaborative work, co-construction of meaning and knowledge transfer. In: Astrid Buschmann-Göbels, Anika Müller-Karabil, Katrina Stollmann & Claudia Harsch (eds.), Rethinking the role of language centres: flexibility, relevance & vision (Fremdsprachen in Lehre und Forschung 57). Bochum: AKS-Verlag, 242-259. (°Authors listed in alphabetical order; both first authors).

Schuhmann, Katharina; Schaech, Sarah & Catto, Cain (2023). Multisensory pronunciation training in a videoconference-based foreign language classroom. In: Georgios Georgiou, Aretousa Giannakou & Christine Savvidou (Eds.), Advances in Second / Foreign Language Acquisition. Cham: Springer Nature / Palgrave Macmillan, 19-47. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-38522-3_2

Fisher, Rose; Schuhmann, Katharina & Putnam, Michael T. (2022). Reducing the role of prosody: Plural allomorphy in Pennsylvania Dutch. In: Kelly Biers & Joshua R. Brown (Eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 11). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 1-10. http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wila/11/paper3601.pdf (Open access)

Schuhmann, Katharina & Smith, Laura C. (2022). Practical prosody: A new hope for teaching German plurals. Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German 55(1),1-24. DOI : 10.1111/tger.12192

°Fisher, Rose; °Natvig, David; °Pretorius, Erin; °Putnam, Michael T. & °Schuhmann, Katharina (2022). Why is inflectional morphology difficult to borrow? - Distributing and lexicalising plural allomorphy in Pennsylvania Dutch. Languages 7(2), 86, 1-25. (Special issue on Word Formation and Language Contact: A Formal Perspective, guest-edited by Artemis Alexiadou and Terje Lohndal.) DOI: 10.3390/languages7020086 (Open access) (°Authorslisted in alphabetical order; all have contributed equally to articles.)
Special issue on Word Formation and Language Contact: A Formal Perspective, guest-edited by A. Alexiadou and T. Lohndal: www.mdpi.com/journal/languages/special_issues/word_formation

Schuhmann, Katharina & Putnam, Michael T. (2021). Relativised prosodic domains: A late insertion account of German plurals. Languages 6(3), 142, 1-20. DOI : 10.3390/languages6030142 (Open access)

Huffman, Marie & Schuhmann, Katharina (2021). The relation between category compactness and L2 VOT learning. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (POMA) 42: 060011, 1-13. DOI: 10.1121/2.0001421 (Open access)

Schuhmann, Katharina & Huffman, Marie (2019). Development of L2 Spanish VOT before and after a brief pronunciation training session. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 5(3), 402-434. DOI : 10.1075/jslp.18018.sch

Schuhmann, Katharina (2016). Cross-linguistic perceptual learning in advanced second language listeners. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 1: 31, 1-15. DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v1i0.3731 (Open access)

Huffman, Marie & Schuhmann, Katharina (2016). Effect of early L2 learning on L1 stop voicing. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (POMA) 23: 060007, 1-10. DOI: 10.1121/2.0000168 (Open access)

Schuhmann, Katharina & Huffman, Marie (2015). L1 drift and L2 category formation in second language learning. In: The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (Ed.), Proceedings of the^18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (Paper 0850). Glasgow, UK: The University of Glasgow, 1-5 (Open access) https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2015/Papers/ICPHS0850.pdf

Schuhmann, Katharina (2015). Degrees of (un)acceptability in syllable contact. Rutgers Optimality Archive (ROA), ROA-1263, 1-30 (Open access) roa.rutgers.edu/article/view/1496

Brennan, Susan; Schuhmann, Katharina & Batres, Karla (2013b). Entrainment on the move and in the lab: The Walking Around Corpus. In: Markus Knauff, Michael Pauen, Natalie Sebanz & Ipke Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX, USA: Cognitive Science Society, 1934-1939. (Open access) https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/cogsci2013_proceedings.pdf

Brennan, Susan; Schuhmann, Katharina & Batres, Karla (2013a). Collaboratively setting perspectives and referring to locations across multiple contexts. In: Ellen Gurman Bard, Kees van Deemter, Albert Gatt, Roger van Gompel & Emiel Krahmer (Eds.), Proceedings of the PRE-CogSci 2013 Workshop 'Production of Referring Expressions: Bridging the gap between cognitive and computational approaches to reference'. Berlin, Germany. (Open access) http://pre2013.uvt.nl/pdf/brennan_schuhmann_batres_workshop.pdf

Schuhmann, Katharina (2012). Perceptual learning in Hindi-English bilinguals. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences: Illinois Working Papers 37, 81-99. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/35300 (Open access)

Schuhmann, Katharina (2010). An Output-Output analysis of German i-truncations. LSA (Linguistic Society of America) Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts 1(3), 1-5. DOI: 10.3765/exabs.v0i0.482 (Open access)

Reviews/book reviews:

Schuhmann, Katharina (forthcoming, 2026). Review of: "Archibald, John: Phonology in Multilingual Grammars. Representational Complexity and Linguistic Interfaces. Oxford University Press, 2024." To be published in: Phonology.

Schuhmann, Katharina (2023). Review of:"Katelhön, Peggy & Marečková, Pavla (eds.): Sprachmittlung und Mediation im Fremdsprachenunterricht an Schule und Universität, Berlin: Frank & Timme Verlag, 2022." Published in: Studi Germanici 23, 334-336. https://www.studigermanici.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SG23_volume.pdf (Open access)

Schuhmann, Katharina (2012/13). Review of: "Larson-Hall, Jenifer: A Guide to Doing Statistics in Second Langauge Research Using SPSS. New York: Routledge, 2010. 423 pp. (pbk)." Published in: Idiom 42(4),6-7.

We collected the following data and published it as a corpus at the renowned Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC ):

Brennan, S., Schuhmann, K. S., & Batres, K. (2015). The Walking Around Corpus (LDC2015S08). Philadelphia, PA: Linguistic Data Consortium. DOI: doi.org/10.35111/qpdc-0x63, ISBN/ISSN: 1-58563-722-X catalogue.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2015S08

Third-party funding

• 2023-2027: "Processing and Comprehension of a Second Language in Adverse Listening Conditions". Associate Junior Fellowship, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK) / Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst, Germany. Link. Approx. 10,000 euros.
• 2023-2025: Research funding from the Lower Saxony programme "ExzellenzStärken" (formerly "SPRUNG") for the research project "Plural processing in German in DaF learners - a study with measurement of eye movement". 20,040 euros.
• 2021-2022: NSF PIRE (National Science Foundation, Partnerships for International Research and Education) Fellowship for BA student Tristan (Cain) Catto for joint research project (CLS, PSU, PA). Link. Approx. 5,000 USD.
• 2020: The Center for Global Studies Research Award. Centre for global studies, The Pennsylvania State University, PA. 4,000 USD.
• 2017: NSF PIRE (National Science Foundation, Partnerships for International Research and Education) Fellowship for BA student C. Otto for a research stay at Radboud University in the Netherlands (together with M. Carlson (PSU) and J. McQueen (Radboud, Netherlands)). Approx. 15,000 USD.
• NSF(National Science Foundation) Dissertation Improvement Grant. National Science Foundation (NSF), Arlington, VA. (NSF Grant # 1127718: Doctoral Dissertation Research: Perceptual Learning in Second Language Learners). Link. Link. 9,607 USD.
• Dissertation Grant for Research in Second or Foreign Language Assessment / Dissertation Grant for the Assessment of Second/Foreign Language Competencies. Educational Testing Service (ETS), Princeton, NJ. 2,000 USD.
• German Academic ExchangeService (DAAD) Short-Term Research Grant / Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Scholarship for a short research stay. German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), New York, NY. Approx. 4,000 USD.

Grants and awards

• Women in Acoustics - Young Investigator Travel Grant. The Acoustical Society of America (ASA): Women in Acoustics. Boston, MA. https://acousticalsociety.org/
• German Academic Exchange Service Travel awards / DAAD-Reisekostenzuschüsse. German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Bonn.
• President's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student. Stony Brook University, NY.
• Yumi Nakamura Memorial Prize in Linguistics (First place: Most Outstanding Presentation). University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics and TESOL 16, Arlington, Texas.
• Diebold Prize. Best student paper. Society for Germanic Linguistics, Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 15, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
• Helmut Esau Prize. Best student paper. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest XXXVII. Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.
• Fulbright Scholarship: Scholarship for studying in the USA. U.S. Fulbright Organisation, Berlin & Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Washington, D.C.

I am currentlya member or associated member of the followingcentres and research groups/
I'm currently a member or associated member of the following centres and research groups:

• Associate member of the Cluster of excellence "Hearing4all" at the University of Oldenburg:
  • Cluster of excellence "Hearing4all": hearing4all.de

• Associate Junior Fellow at the The Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK)/ Institute for Advanced Study (07/2023-06/2027)
  • https://hanse-ias.de/en/fellowships/fellow/17214

• Research member in the Research Cluster "Advanced Language Acquisition" at the University of Oldenburg:
  • uol.de/fortgeschrittener-spracherwerb
  • uol.de/fortgeschrittener-spracherwerb/participating-scientists
  • This research group is part of the DiZ (Didaktischez Zentrum) Research Academy: uol.de/diz/diz-forschungsakademie/diz-forschungscluster
  • News: https://uol.de/aktuelles/artikel/sprache-im-unterricht-8529

• Research member of the research cluster "Language-aware subject teaching / language-sensitive teaching and learning" at the University of Oldenburg:
  • https://uol.de/diz/diz-forschungsakademie/diz-forschungscluster/forschungscluster-sprachbewusster-fachunterricht
  • https://uol.de/diz/diz-forschungsakademie/diz-forschungscluster/forschungscluster-sprachbewusster-fachunterricht/beteiligte-wissenschaftlerinnen#c667815

• Member of the Centre for Teacher Education - Didactic Centre (DiZ) at the University of Oldenburg:
  • uol.de/diz

• Member of the Laboratory for Speech and Music Research / Speech & Music Lab at the University of Oldenburg:
  • https://uol.de/speech-music-lab

Ongoing collaborations with:

• Prof. Dr Susan E. Brennan, Stony Brook University, NY, USA
• Prof. Dr Laura Catherine Smith, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA
• Dr Ulrike Arras, g.a.s.t. (Society for Academic Study Preparation and Test Development), Bochum, Germany
• Prof. Dr Marie K. Huffman, Stony Brook University, NY, USA
• Prof. Dr Bénédicte Grandon, Nantes Université & Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes, France & Prof. Dr Esther Ruigendijk, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg & Cluster of Excellence "Hearing4all, Germany
• Sarah Schaech, Pittsburgh University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; formerly at the CLS (Center for Language Science) at Penn State University, State College, PA, USA

• Plural processing in German by DaF learners - a study with eye movement measurements. With Dr Bénédicte Grandon (Nantes Université, France) and Prof. Dr Esther Ruigendijk (UOL). Funded by the Lower Saxony programme "ExzellenzStärken" (formerly "SPRUNG") 2023.
• The role of prosody in plural acquisition in L1 speakers and GFL learners. With Prof Laura Smith, BYU, Provo, UT, USA.
• Videoconferencing-based mediation skills of GFL learners and their description using the GeR BB. With Dr Ulrike Arras, g.a.s.t. (Gesellschaft für Akademische Studienvorbereitung und Testentwicklung e. V.), Bochum, Germany.
• Multi-sensory pronunciation training in videoconference-based foreign language education. With Cain (Tristan) Catto & Sarah Schaech, (formerly at) Penn State, University Park, PA, USA.
• Referential communication between interlocutors in shifting situational contexts. With Prof Susan Brennan, Stony Brook, University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
• Perceptual learning in L1 Korean-L2 English listeners.
• Pronunciation training in DaF distance learning.
• Universal phonological principles in receptive L2 German plural acquisition. With Prof John Archibald, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada.

• 2026(in planning): Organisation of an international workshop at the HWK (Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg / Institute for Advanced Study) in Delmenhorst on 'Processing and Comprehension of a Second Language in Adverse Listening Conditions'; funding through an HWK (Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg) Fellowship in the research area BRAIN & MIND.

• 15th Northwest German Linguistic Colloquium (NWLK): 1 and 2 December 2023, University of Oldenburg
  • Conference website: https://uol.de/nwlk2023
  • Call for papers: https://uol.de/nwlk2023/call-for-papers
  • We especially invite students to present their theses and research papers!
  • The programme and abstracts are online! Thank you for an exciting conference!

• Eye-Tracking Data Analysis Workshop: October 4 &^5th, 2023, Oldenburg University
  • Organised by Katharina Schuhmann. The workshop will be conducted by our external guest speakers: Irene Mognon, Joshua Krause, and Abigail Toth from Groningen University, The Netherlands!
  • We gratefully acknowledge the funding provided by "ExzellenzStärken"/SPRUNG (MWK)!
  • This workshop will take place in English.
  • Participants must have basic knowledge of statistics, R, and mixed effects modelling. No prior experience with eye-tracking is necessary.
  • Registration via email until September ^26th, 2023. Preference will be given to early career researchers.
  • Email me if you are interested and have any questions.

• Workshop on mediation in foreign language teaching (in cooperation with the Language Centre at the University of Oldenburg). 8 November 2023 (8-12 am), Language Centre Oldenburg.

• since 2023: Member of the Advisory Board of the Oldenburg University Society (UGO), Oldenburg
• since 2023: Member of AG Master Language Dynamics Oldenburg
• 2023 - 2025: Member of the Council for Teaching and the Commission for Teacher Training (KLB), Centre for Teacher Training
  - Didactic Centre (DiZ), University of Oldenburg
• 2023 - 2025: Member of the Institute Council, Institute for German Studies, University of Oldenburg
• 2023 - 2025: Deputy member of the Faculty Council, School 3, University of Oldenburg
• 2023 - 2025: Deputy member of the Ethics Committee, University of Oldenburg
• since 04/2022: Erasmus+ Department Coordinator and Internationalisation Officer,
  Institute for German Studies, University of Oldenburg

• I am also the Internationalisation Officer (with Dr Schoormann, Deputy Internationalisation Officer) for German Studies at UOL!
• Paths abroad!
• Do you have wanderlust? Talk to me!
• You don't have wanderlust yet? Talk to me as soon as possible! :)
• As a German Studies student at UOL, you can also study German Studies abroad. I will be happy to help you plan an unforgettable and great study abroad experience! :)
• As Erasmus+ Departmental Coordinator, I offer, among other things, expert advice on submitting your Erasmus+ application.

Prof. Dr Katharina Schuhmann:

• I have a lot of language teaching experience (especially German and English as a foreign and second language)

• Languages, language varieties and learner groups which I've worked with so far / Languages, language varieties and learner groups which I've worked so far:
  • German as an L2 / German als Fremd- oder Zweitsprache
  • German-Italian bilingual speakers (in Northern Italy) / German-Italienisch bilinguale Sprecher*innen (in Norditalien)
  • Pennsylvania Dutch / Pennsylvaniadeutsch (language of origin in bilingual speakers in Pennsylvania)
  • Swiss German / Schweizerdeutsch (Bernese German, spoken in a language island in Argentina)
  • Hindi (L1 / bilingual speakers) / Hindi (as first language in bilingual speakers)
  • L1 Korean-L2 English / English as a second language in Korean speakers
  • English as an L2 / English as a foreign language
  • Spanish as an L2 / Spanish as a foreign language
  • Japanese as an L2 / Japanese as a foreign language
  • L1 German as a first language
  • L1 English / English as a first language

• Sprachen und Sprachvarianten, die ich derzeit sprechen und verstehen oder die ich in der Vergangenheit gesprochen oder gelernt habe / Languages and language varieties that I currently speak and understand, or have spoken or studied in the past:
  • German / German
  • English / Englisch
  • French / Französisch
  • Italian / Italienisch
  • Spanish / Spanisch
  • Old English / Old English
  • Latin / Latin
  • Ancient Greek / Altgriechisch
  • and: Eastern Franconian (Ostfränkisch) and Hessian Platt (but unfortunately only passive listening comprehension) :)