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)

• Limits of short-term perceptual training for enhancing Seoul-Korean listeners’ use of English lexical stress in spoken word recognition Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2024), Annie C. Tremblay.
• Perceptual cue weighting matters in real-time integration of acoustic information during spoken word recognition Cognitive Science 48 (2024), Hyoju Kim, Annie C. Tremblay, Taehong Cho.
• Input processing and the acquisition of phonology Routledge (2024), Annie C. Tremblay.
• 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.

• Language dominance predicts cue-weighting transfer (2025), Natalia I. Minjarez-Oppenheimer, Annie C. Tremblay.
• Status of the labiodental fricative [v] for Spanish speakers in the US (2025), Andrea Nuñez, Annie C. Tremblay.
• Production of labiodental fricative [v] in Heritage speakers of Spanish (2024), Andrea Nuñez, Annie C. Tremblay.
• Limits of short-term perceptual training for enhancing Seoul-Korean listeners’ use of English lexical stress in spoken word recognition (2024), Volume Ottawa, Canada, Annie C. Tremblay, Hyoju Kim, Sahyang Kim, Taehong Cho.
• Investigating the production and perception of lexical stress in English as a second language: A cue-weighting approach (2024), Natalia I. Minjarez-Oppenheimer, 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).