Dr Kumiko Fukumura

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Psychology University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA

Dr Kumiko Fukumura

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About me

I arrived at the University of Stirling in 2018. My main research interest is in the area of psychology of language and communication, with the goal of understanding the cognitive processes that underlie language production and comprehension.

In our language processing lab, we use cutting-edge eye-tracking technology to investigate language comprehension processes. We also investigate language production processes using a variety of tasks, adapted for different populations including children.

Research

My main research interest is in the area of psychology of language and communication, focusing on: (1) how do speakers produce and comprehend languages? (2) how do speakers and addressees achieve successful communication? (3) how language communication skills develop? If you're interested in any of these issues or any other issue related to the psychology of language, please get in touch.

Outputs (21)

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Article

The crosslinguistic acquisition of sentence structure: Computational modeling and grammaticality judgments from adult and child speakers of English, Japanese, Hindi, Hebrew and K'iche'

Ambridge B, Tatsumi T, Doherty L, Maitreyee R, Bannard C, Samanta S, McCauley S, Arnon I, Zicherman S, Bekman D, Efrati A, Berman R, Narasimhan B, Sharma DM & Fukumura K (2020) The crosslinguistic acquisition of sentence structure: Computational modeling and grammaticality judgments from adult and child speakers of English, Japanese, Hindi, Hebrew and K'iche'. Cognition, 202, Art. No.: 104310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104310

Conference Paper (published)

Clausal interference during reference production

van Gompel RPG & Fukumura K (2013) Clausal interference during reference production. In: Proceedings of PRE-CogSci 2013: Production of Referring Expressions: Bridging the gap between cognitive and computational approaches to reference. PRE-CogSci 2013: Production of Referring Expressions: Bridging the gap between cognitive and computational approaches to reference, Berlin, Germany, 31.07.2013-31.07.2013. Amsterdam: Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. https://pre2013.uvt.nl/workshop-program.html

Conference Paper (published)

Speakers use their own discourse model to determine referents' accessibility during the production of referring expressions

Fukumura K & van Gompel RPG (2009) Speakers use their own discourse model to determine referents' accessibility during the production of referring expressions. In: van Deemter K, Gatt A, van Gompel R & Krahmer E (eds.) Proceedings of the Workshop on the Production of Referring Expressions (PRE-CogSci 2009): Bridging the gap between computational and empirical approaches to reference. PRE-CogSci 2009 Workshop, Amsterdam, 29.07.2009-29.07.2009. Amsterdam: Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. https://pre2009.uvt.nl/workshop-program.html

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