Annie Tremblay
Office: 2101 FLB
Phone: 265-0764
Email: atrembla@illinois.edu
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I am interested in how young children and adults acquire abstract grammatical representations and use them in real time for producing and processing language. My work on first language acquisition has focused on how the prosodic representations that French children acquire constrain the development of their early grammatical morphemes. My work on second language acquisition aims to reach a better understanding of the relationship between the abstract prosodic knowledge that second language learners acquire and the parsing procedures they develop for putting that knowledge into use.
My doctoral dissertation investigates the acquisition and processing of word stress by French Canadian second language learners of English. In my dissertation work, I found that the prosodic structure that native speakers of Canadian French use for representing English stress needs to be of a particular shape for the latter to constrain their recognition of English words. For details on this research, please consult my website or send me an email.
Recent Publications
Demuth, K., & Tremblay, A. (in press). Prosodically‑conditioned variability in children's production of French determiners. Journal of Child Language, 34.
Tremblay, A. (2006). Prosodic constraints on the production of grammatical morphemes in early French: The case of determiners. In K.U. Deen, J. Nomura, B. Schulz, & B. D. Schwartz (Eds.), The Proceedings of the Inaugural Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition--North America, Honolulu, HI. University of Connecticut Occasional Papers in Linguistics 4, 377-388.
Tremblay, A. (to appear). Does stress constrain L2 English word recognition? Proceedings of the 8th Annual Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics.
Tremblay, A., & Demuth, K. (2007). Prosodic licensing of determiners in French. In A. Belikova, L. Meroni, & M. Umeda (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second Biennial Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (pp. 426–436). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
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 Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hawai'i.