Annie Tremblay
Office: 2101 FLB
Phone: 265-0764
Email: atrembla@illinois.edu
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I am interested in the phonological and morphological representations that second language learners acquire and the parsing procedures they develop for putting these representations into use. The main project on which I am currently working investigates the processing of liaison-initial words by proficient and less proficient English learners of French. My dissertation research focused on the acquisition and processing of word stress by French Canadian learners of English. My other research interests include second language learners’ acquisition and processing of inflectional morphology, French-acquiring children’s acquisition of grammatical morphemes, and proficiency assessment methods in second language research.
Recent Publications
Demuth, K., & Tremblay, A. (2008). Prosodically conditioned variability in children's production of French determiners. Journal of Child Language, 35, 99–127.
Tremblay, A. (2008). Is L2 lexical access prosodically constrained? On the processing of word stress by French Canadian L2 learners of English. Applied Psycholinguistics, 29, 553–584.
Tremblay, A. (2008). Prosodic constraints in the acquisition of English primary stress by French Canadian L2 learners. In M. Bowles, R. Foote, & S. Perpiñá (Eds.), Selected proceedings of the Second Language Research Forum 2007 (pp. 158–170). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Tremblay, A. (2009). Phonetic variability and the variable perception of L2 word stress by French Canadian listeners. International Journal of Bilingualism. 13, 35–62.
Tremblay, A. (to appear). Processing liaison-initial words in native and non-native French: Evidence from Eye movements. Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2009).
Recent Conference Presentations/Posters
Owens, N., & Tremblay, A. (2008). What cue where? The role of pitch and length in the acquisition of L2 prosodic representations. Paper presented at the 2008 Canadian Linguistic Association Conference, University of British Columbia, May 31.
Tremblay, A. (2009). French listeners' recognition of liaison-initial words: The role of acoustic information. Poster to be presented at the 22nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of California, Davis, March 27.
Tremblay, A. (2009b). Processing liaison-initial words in native and non-native French: Evidence from eye movements. Poster presented at the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2009). Brighton, UK, September 7.
Tremblay, A., & Coughlin, C. (2009). French L2ers' resolution of number agreement in the processing of object clitics. Poster presented at the 10th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 14, 2009.
Tremblay, A., & Garrison, M. D. (2008). Cloze tests: A tool for proficiency assessment in research on L2 French. Paper presented at the 31st Annual Second Language Research Forum, University of Hawai'i, October 17.
Dissertation
Tremblay, A. (2007). Bridging the gap between theoretical linguistics and psycholinguistics in L2 phonology: The acquisition and processing of word stress by French Canadian L2 learners of English. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hawai'i.