Selected publications

• Wade, Embick & Tamminga. Forthcoming. Dialect experience modulates cue reliance in sociolinguistic convergence. Glossa Psycholinguistics.
• Li, Tamminga & Hu. 2023. Intra- and inter-speaker repetitiveness in Chengdu Mandarin locative variation. Language Variation and Change, online first view.
• 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 (aop).
• 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).
• Tamminga. 2021. Social meaning and the temporal dynamics of sound changes. In Hall-Lew, Moore & Podesva (eds.), Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation: Theorizing the Third Wave 338–362. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Tamminga. 2021. Leaders of language change: Macro and micro perspectives. In Van de Velde, Hilton & Knooihuizen (eds.), Language Variation – European Perspectives VIII: Selected Papers from the Tenth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 10) 270–289. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
• Wade, Lai & Tamminga. 2021. The reliability of individual differences in VOT imitation. Language and Speech 64(3):576–593.
• Tamminga, Wilder, Lai & Wade. 2020. Perceptual learning, talker specificity, and sound change. Papers in Historical Phonology 4(90).
• Embick, White & Tamminga. 2019. Heritage languages and variation: Identifying shared factors. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 1–2.
• Tamminga. 2019. Interspeaker covariation in Philadelphia vowel changes. Language Variation and Change 31(2):1-15.
• Tamminga. 2019. Sources of microtemporal clustering in sociolinguistic sequences. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: Language and Computation 2:10.
• Tamminga. 2018. Modulation of the following segment effect on English coronal stop deletion by syntactic boundaries. Glossa: A journal of general linguistics 3(1):86.
• Tamminga. 2017. Matched guise effects can be robust to speech style. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 142, EL18-23.
• Tamminga, MacKenzie & Embick. 2016. The dynamics of variation in individuals. Linguistic Variation 16(2):151–187.
• Tamminga. 2016. Persistence in phonological and morphological variation. Language Variation and Change 28:335-356.
• Tamminga, Ahern & Ecay. 2016. Generalized Additive Mixed Models for intraspeaker variation. Linguistics Vanguard 2(s1):33-41.

External and intramural funding

• Tamminga & Embick. 2022. University of Pennsylvania University Research Foundation Award. An experimental approach to the locus of variation. $41,000.
• Schuler, Embick & Tamminga. 2022. MindCORE Collaborative Research Award. $67,061.
• 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 (PI) & Wade (co-PI). 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.
• Tamminga (PI), Fisher (co-PI) & Labov (co-PI). 2017. Variation and change in “ain’t” negation in AAE. NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (BCS-1658547).
• Tamminga (PI). 2016. Cognitive characteristics of the leaders of language change. National Science Foundation Grant (BCS-1627972).
• Tamminga (PI) & Gylfadottir (co-PI). 2016. Individual-level knowledge of an incoming phonemic contrast. NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (BCS-1627973).
• Tamminga (PI), Sneller (co-PI) & Labov (co-PI). 2016. Investigating the mechanism of phonological change in progress: Allophonic restructuring of /ae/ in Philadelphia. NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (BCS-1628408).