Selected recent publications

• White, Embick & Tamminga. 2024. Affix priming with variable ING in English: Implications for unique vs. dual representation. Journal of Memory and Language 138, 104535.
• Lai & Tamminga. 2024. Phonetics–phonology mapping in the generalization of perceptual learning. Journal of Phonetics 103, 101-295.
• Wade, Embick & Tamminga. 2023. Dialect experience modulates cue reliance in sociolinguistic convergence. Glossa Psycholinguistics 2(1):19, 1–30.
• Li, Tamminga & Hu. 2023. Intra- and inter-speaker repetitiveness in Chengdu Mandarin locative variation. Language Variation and Change 35(1), 107–127.
• Li. 2022. Regional dialect leveling in Mandarin Chinese: the case of locative variation in the Chengdu dialect. Asia-Pacific Language Variation 8(1), 32-71.
• Purse, Fruehwald & Tamminga. 2022. Frequency and morphological complexity in variation. Glossa: A journal of general linguistics 7(1): 1–34.
• Purse, Tamminga & White. 2022. Phonological variation and lexical form. In Papafragou, Trueswell & Gleitman (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the Mental Lexicon 33-52. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Lai, Wade & Tamminga. 2022. Individual differences in simultaneous perceptual compensation for coarticulatory and lexical cues. Linguistics Vanguard 8(1), 29-39.
• Tamminga & Wade. 2022. Coherence across social and temporal scales. In Beaman and Guy (eds.), The Coherence of Linguistic Communities: Orderly Heterogeneity and Social Meaning 34–52. Routledge.
• Wade. 2022. Experimental evidence for expectation-driven linguistic convergence. Language 98(1).
• Wade, Lai & Tamminga. 2021. The reliability of individual differences in VOT imitation. Language and Speech 64(3):576–593.

Recent external and intramural funding

• Tamminga & Li. 2023. Experimental priming of phonological variant choices. NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (BCS-1917900).
• Tamminga & Embick. 2022. University of Pennsylvania University Research Foundation Award. An experimental approach to the locus of variation.
• Schuler, Embick & Tamminga. 2022. MindCORE Collaborative Research Award.
• White. 2021. Exploring the Mental Representation of Variable ING. Small Grant Award, Penn Integrated Language Sciences and Technology Initiative.
• Lai. 2019. Tracking idiosyncratic speech traits across speakers and genders. Small Grant Award, Penn Integrated Language Sciences and Technology Initiative.
• Tamminga & Wade. 2019. Linguistic accommodation to Southern speech. NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (BCS-1917900).
• White. 2019. Investigating the mental representation of morphophonological variation. Small Grant Award, Penn Integrated Language Sciences and Technology Initiative.
• Lai. 2018. Tracking speaker-specific cue distributions in multi-talker speech: The role of auditory dissimilarity, speaker identity and phoneme type. Small Grant Award, Penn Social and Behavioral Sciences Initiative.
• Wade. 2018. Convergence task replication with perceptual learning component. Small Grant Award, Penn Social and Behavioral Sciences Initiative.