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Dr. Lacey Wade is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Kansas. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020 and her Master's from North Carolina State University in 2015. Her research examines how people's knowledge about language and language users influences production and comprehension, with specific focus on perception-production relationships, individual differences, and experience-driven linguistic behaviors.
Her research interests span sociolinguistics, phonetics, and psycholinguistics, particularly investigating how dialect experience influences linguistic convergence and how social evaluations affect language processing. She directs the KU Sociolinguistics Lab, which focuses on experimental approaches to language variation and social perception.
Dr. Wade's publications demonstrate a consistent focus on experimental approaches to sociolinguistic variation, with recent work examining expectation-driven linguistic convergence and sociolinguistic processing in context. Her research employs diverse methodologies including perceptual experiments, production tasks, and computational modeling to understand cognitive mechanisms underlying language variation.
She has supervised graduate students and collaborators in research examining linguistic perception, dialectology, and sociolinguistic evaluation. Her lab maintains active collaborations with researchers at multiple institutions to investigate language variation across different communities and contexts.
