Biography
Meredith Tamminga is an assistant professor of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. She completed her Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania in 2014. She trained in variationist sociolinguistic field methods and now works at the interface between sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics. Her general research interests include the mental representation and processing of sociolinguistic variation, the integration of experimental and naturalistic linguistic data across diverse populations, and the relationship between individual and group-level linguistic behavior. She is also interested in variation and change in sign languages, which she has been working on since 2015 through the Philadelphia Signs Project.
Dr. Tamminga directs the Language Variation & Cognition Lab and is affiliated with MindCORE, Penn's cognitive science hub. She has been an associate editor at Language and at Glossa Psycholinguistics. She teaches courses in sociolinguistics and quantitative methods in the Department of Linguistics (Penn Arts & Sciences).