Tammy Ganster

Tammy Ganster joined the department in January 2020. She obtained her M.A. in English Linguistics and English Literature from Trier University in 2019. She  submitted her PhD dissertation, which investigates inter-individual variation in stress position both in the production and perception of English complex words, in March 2025. The thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Sabine Arndt-Lappe. She left the department in June 2025 with deep gratitude to former colleagues and students.

Research interests

  • the prosody of complex words
  • the morphology-phonology interface
  • the mental lexicon
  • linguistic productivity

Recent presentations

  • Ganster, T. (2024, Oct 10-11). You say idéntifiable, I say identifíable. We are not the same. – Individual Differences and the Production of Stress in English Complex Adjectives. Workshop “Nonuniformity in Morphophonology Across Frameworks”, Trier University, Germany.

  • Ganster, T. (2023, Aug 29 – Sept 1). Individual Differences and Stress Variation in English Complex Words. [plenary talk]. 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, National and Kapodistrian University Athens, Greece. (link to video of talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izFyOcE62U8, link to PDF of presentation slides: ).

    Ganster, T. (2022, Aug 24-27). Individual differences and the morphology-phonology interface: Stress placement in English complex words. [talk]. 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Bucharest, Romania.

  • Ganster, T. (2022, May 21). Can individual differences in morphological processing explain stress variability in English complex words? [talk]. 13th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting, University of the Aegean, Rhodes.
  • Arndt-Lappe, S., & Ganster, T. (2022, Feb 9). Stress, lexical storage, and the paradigm: evidence from variable alternations [talk]. Morphology in Production and Perception, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf (Online).
  • Ganster, T. (2021, May 27). The role of individual linguistic experience in the stressing of complex words [talk]. 28th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester (Online).
  • Ganster, T. (2020, Sep 10). The role of individual linguistic experience in the stressing of complex words [talk]. 16. Tagung zur Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, Universität Trier.
  • Ganster, T. (2019, Nov 20). Variation in the Production and Perception of Stress in -able Derivatives [talk]. English Linguistics Circle, Trier.
  • Ganster, T. (2019, Oct 25). Variation in the Production and Perception of Stress in -able Derivatives [talk]. Kolloquium der DFG-Forschergruppe FOR 2373, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf.

Awards

  • Best Presentation by a PhD student award at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (University of Bucharest, August 2022), 500 EUR

Grants

  • Partial travel grant to 13th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting, Rhodes, Greece, by Mentoring-Fördermitteln (Professorinnenprogramm III des Bundes und der Länder) (04/2022)

  • Partial travel grant to 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Athens, Greece by Equal Opportunity Office of Faculty II of Trier University. (granted 06/2023)