My research focuses on language processing in adults, primarily from a psycholinguistic perspective. My areas of interest include syntax and semantics, such as attachment ambiguities and complex structures like relative clauses, across multiple languages. My current research examines the impact of social factors on linguistic processing, particularly the influence of social persona (based on stereotypes) on language processing during interaction. I am especially interested in social gender through the study of inclusive writing and gender stereotypes in French.
Michel, S., Pozniak, C., & Colonna, S. (2025). Reading new morpho-syntactic forms: The case of gender-inclusive writing in French. Journal of French Language Studies, 35, e24. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959269525100124
Pozniak, C., & Hemforth, B. (2025). Interference of implicit causality in relative clause processing. Open Mind, 9, 364–400. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00193
Pozniak, C., Beyssade, C., Roussarie, L., & Godart-Wendling, B. (2024). How relevant is the sentence unit to accessing implicit meaning? Languages, 9(2), 42. https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/2/42
Pozniak, C., Corbeau, E., & Burnett, H. (2023). Contextual dilution in French gender inclusive writing: An experimental investigation. Journal of French Language Studies. https://doi.org/...
Cayrecastel, Z., Pozniak, C., & Colonna, S. (2022). Priming effect on the feminization of role names: An experimental study with 5-year-old French-speaking children. GLAD! Revue sur le langage, le genre, les sexualités, 13. https://journals.openedition.org/glad/5716
Fukumura, K., Pozniak, C., & Alario, F. X. (2022). Avoiding gender ambiguous pronouns in French. Cognition, 218, 104909. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104909
Burnett, H., & Pozniak, C. (2021). Political dimensions of gender inclusive writing in Parisian universities. Journal of Sociolinguistics. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12489
Pozniak, C., & Burnett, H. (2021). Failures of Gricean reasoning and the role of stereotypes in the production of gender marking in French. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1310
Esteve-Gibert, N., Schafer, A. J., Hemforth, B., Portes, C., Pozniak, C., & D’Imperio, M. (2020). Empathy influences how listeners interpret intonation and meaning when words are ambiguous. Memory & Cognition, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-019-00990-w
Pozniak, C., Hemforth, B., Haendler, Y., Santi, A., & Grillo, N. (2019). Seeing events vs. entities: The processing advantage of Pseudo Relatives over Relative Clauses. Journal of Memory and Language, 107, 128-151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2019.04.001
Pozniak, C., Hemforth, B., & Scheepers, C. (2018). Corrigendum: Cross-Domain Priming From Mathematics to Relative-Clause Attachment: A Visual-World Study in French. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 2560. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02560
Pozniak, C., & Hemforth, B. (2016). Acquisition of object pronouns in French as a second language. Discours. Revue de linguistique, psycholinguistique et informatique, 18. https://doi.org/10.4000/discours.9151