Dr. Annie C. Tremblay obtained her PhD in Second Language Acquisition at the University of Hawaii in 2007. Her research investigates bilingual speech perception and spoken word recognition, with focus on the processing of prosody, lexical stress, and other suprasegmental phenomena. Her most recent research, funded by the National Science Foundation, investigates whether the cue-weighting theory of speech perception can provide a strong theoretical framework for understanding the listening difficulties that second-language learners encounter with lexical stress, and for developing training stimuli and methods to enhance the perceptual learning of lexical stress.

• Ph D in Second Language Acquisition, University of Hawai'i (2007)
• MA in Spanish Linguistics, University of Ottawa (2002)
• BA in Second Language Teaching, University of Ottawa (2001)
• BA in Spanish, University of Ottawa (2001)

• Korean listeners’ weighting and integration of cues to the three-way Korean stop contrast Proceedings of the International Congress for Phonetic Sciences 2023 (2023), Hyoju Kim, Annie C. Tremblay.
• Perceptual training enhances the use of vowel quality cues to lexical stress: The benefits of intonational variability Proceedings of the International Congress for Phonetic Sciences 2023 (2023), Annie C. Tremblay, Hyoju Kim, Sahyang Kim, Taehong Cho.
• Crosstalk between intonation and lexical tones: Linguistic, cognitive and neuroscience perspectives Frontiers in Psychology (2022), Hatice Zora, Carlos Gussenhoven, Annie C. Tremblay, Fang Liu.
• Editorial: Crosstalk between intonation and lexical tones: Linguistic, cognitive and neuroscience perspectives Frontiers in Psychology 13 (2022), Hatice Zora, Carlos Gussenhoven, Annie C. Tremblay, Fang Liu.
• Intonational cues to a segmental contrast in the native language facilitate the processing of intonational cues to lexical stress in the second language. Frontiers in Communication (2022), Hyoju Kim, Annie C. Tremblay.
• Perception of English lexical stress in different intonational contexts by Mandarin listeners Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 152 (2022), Tzu-Hsuan Yang, Annie C. Tremblay.
• Perceptual training enhances Seoul Korean listeners’ use of vowel quality and pitch cues to English lexical stress Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 152 (2022), Annie C. Tremblay, Hyoju Kim, Keira D. , Sahyang Kim, Taehong Cho.
• Boundary-induced prosodic strengthening and its function in interactive and read speech Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 150 (2021), Seulgi Shin, Annie C. Tremblay.
• Dutch listeners’ perception of English lexical stress: A cue-weighting approach. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 149 (2021), Annie C. Tremblay, Mirjam Broersma, Yuyu Zeng, Hyoju Kim, Jinmyung Lee, Seulgi Shin.
• Korean listeners’ processing of suprasegmental lexical contrasts in Korean and English: A cue-based transfer approach. Journal of Phonetics 87 (2021), Hyoju Kim, Annie C. Tremblay.
• Re-examining the effect of phonological similarity between the native- and second-language intonational systems in second-language speech segmentation. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 24 (2021), Annie C. Tremblay, Sahyang Kim, Seulgi Shin, Taehong Cho.
• The past, present, and future of stress in second-language word production and recognition Cambridge University Press (2021), Annie C. Tremblay.
• Testing Korean listeners’ use of acoustic cues to the /i/-/ɪ/ contrast in English spoken word recognition Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 148 (2020), Jinmyung Lee, Annie C. Tremblay.
• Testing the cue-weighting transfer hypothesis with Korean listeners’ perception of English lexical stressJournal of the Acoustical Society of America Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 148 (2020), Hyoju Kim, Annie C. Tremblay.
• Word prosody in L2 Oxford University Press (2020), Allard Jongman, Annie C. Tremblay.
• Foreign-language knowledge enhances artificial-language segmentation Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech) (2019), Annie C. Tremblay, Mirjam Broersma.
• Influence of within-category tonal information in the recognition of Mandarin-Chinese words by native and non-native listeners: An eye-tracking study Proceedings of the International Congress for Phonetic Sciences 2019 (2019), Zhen Qin, Annie C. Tremblay, Jie Zhang.
• Influence of within-category tonal information in the recognition of Mandarin-Chinese words by native and non-native listeners: An eye-tracking study. Journal of Phonetics 73 (2019), Zhen Qin, Annie C. Tremblay, Jie Zhang.
• Phonetic and phonological effects of tonal information in the segmentation of Korean speech. Applied Psycholinguistics 40 (2019), Annie C. Tremblay, Taehong Cho, Sahyang Kim, Seulgi Shin.
• Processing prosodically driven variations in lexical access Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 146 (2019), Seulgi Shin, Annie C. Tremblay.

• Perceptual training enhances the use of vowel quality cues to lexical stress: The benefits of intonational variability (2023), Volume Prague, Czech Republic, Annie C. Tremblay, Hyoju Kim, Sahyang Kim, Taehong Cho.
• Korean listeners’ weighting and integration of cues to the three-way Korean stop contrast (2023), Volume Prague, Czech Republic, Hyoju Kim, Annie C. Tremblay.
• Recognizing spoken words in a second language: A cue-weighting approach (2022), Volume Spain, Annie C. Tremblay.
• Testing Korean listeners’ use of acoustic cues to the /i/-/ɪ/ contrast in English spoken word recognition (2020), Jinmyung Lee, Annie C. Tremblay.
• Testing the cue-weighting transfer hypothesis with Korean listeners’ perception of English lexical stress (2020), Hyoju Kim, Annie C. Tremblay.
• Dutch listeners’ perception of English lexical stress: A cue-weighting approach (2020), Annie C. Tremblay, Mirjam Broersma, Yuyu Zeng, A. Aumeistere, Hyoju Kim, Jinmyung Lee, Seulgi Shin.
• Testing the cue-weighting transfer hypothesis with Korean listeners’ perception of English lexical stress (2020), Volume Spain, Hyoju Kim, Annie C. Tremblay.
• Predicting spoken word recognition in a second language: A cue-weighting approach (2019), Annie C. Tremblay.
• Processing prosodically driven variations in lexical access (2019), Seulgi Shin, Annie C. Tremblay.
• Foreign-language knowledge enhances artificial-language segmentation (2019), Annie C. Tremblay, Mirjam Broersma.
• Enhancing the development of phonetic categories in second-language speech perception and production through high-variability phonetic training (2019), Volume Montreal, Canada, Annie C. Tremblay.
• The learning and use of suprasegmental information in second-language speech perception and spoken word recognition: Where are we now? (2019), Annie C. Tremblay.
• Examining phonetic and phonological effects of the native intonational system on second-language speech segmentation (2019), Annie C. Tremblay, Seulgi Shin, Sahyang Kim, Taehong Cho.
• Predicting spoken word recognition in a second language: A cue-weighting approach (2019), Annie C. Tremblay.
• Testing the cue-weighting transfer hypothesis with Dutch listeners’ perception of English lexical stress (2019), Annie C. Tremblay, Mirjam Broersma, Yuyu Zeng, A. Aumeistere, Jinmyung Lee, Hyoju Kim, Seulgi Shin.
• Influence of within-category tonal information in the recognition of Mandarin-Chinese words by native and non-native listeners: An eye-tracking study (2019), Zhen Qin, Annie C. Tremblay, Jie Zhang.
• Understanding native-language effects in second-language speech segmentation (2019), Annie C. Tremblay.

• Research Grant (BCS-2016750), Linguistics Program, National Science Foundation. Project title: Enhancing the perception and recognition of spoken words in a second language: A cue-weighting approach. Role: PI. Co-Investigators: Dr. Mirjam Broersma (Radboud University, The Netherlands), Dr. Taehong Cho (Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea), Dr. Sahyang Kim (Hongik University, Seoul, Korea), Dr. Joan Carles Mora (University of Barcelona, Spain) Amount: 449,961 USD for 54 months. Support: research equipment, research assistant, research travel, subject payment, conference travel (2020-2025).
• Research Grant (BCS-1423905), Linguistics Program, National Science Foundation. Project title: Effects of native language and linguistic exposure on non-native listeners’ use of prosodic cues in speech segmentation. Role: PI. Co-investigators: Dr. Mirjam Broersma (Radboud University, The Netherlands), Dr. Taehong Cho (Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea), Dr. Sahyang Kim (Hongik University, Seoul, Korea), Dr. Elsa Spinelli (Laboratoire de Psychologie et Neurocognition, Université Grenoble Alpes, France). Amount: 258,964 USD for 54 months (with 1-year no-cost extension). Support: research equipment, research assistant, research travel, subject payment, conference travel (2014-2019).