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.

• 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.

• 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).