Papers & Talks

to appear/in press

• Rao, R., Mazzaro, N., Minjarez Oppenheimer, N., & Galindo-Navarro, E. (to appear). Question intonation in Spanish-English bilinguals: A cross-linguistic analysis. In Rao, R. (Ed), The acquisition of Spanish intonation: Heritage, L2, and pedagogical perspectives. Multilingual Matters (SLA series).

• Tremblay, A. (in press). Processing second/foreign language prosody. In J. Levis and M. Reed (Eds.), Handbook of second language listening. Wiley/Blackwell.

2025

• Tremblay, A. (2025). French speech perception and spoken word recognition by second-language learners. In M. Howard (Ed.), Approaches and methods in French second language acquisition research (pp. 44-69). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

• Tremblay, A., & Kim, H. (2025). Perceptual plasticity in bilinguals: Language dominance reshapes acoustic cue weightings. Brain Sciences, 15, 1053.

2024

• Kim, H., Tremblay, A., & Cho, T. (2024). Perceptual cue weighting matters in real-time integration of acoustic information during spoken word recognition. Cognitive Science, 48, e70026.

• Tremblay, A. (2024). Input processing and the acquisition of phonology. In W. Wong & J. Barcroft (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of second language acquisition and input processing (pp. 227-239). New York: Routledge.

• Tremblay, A., Kim, H., Kim, S., & Cho, T. (2024). 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, 155, A81.

2023

• Kim, H., & Tremblay, A. (2023). Korean listeners’ weighting and integration of cues to the three-way Korean stop contrast. In Proceedings of the International Congress for Phonetic Sciences 2023. Prague, Czech Republic. <https://guarant.cz/icphs2023/470.pdf>

• Tremblay, A., Kim, H., Kim, S., & Cho, T. (2023). Perceptual training enhances the use of vowel quality cues to lexical stress: The benefits of intonational variability. In Proceedings of the International Congress for Phonetic Sciences 2023. Prague, Czech Republic. <https://guarant.cz/icphs2023/348.pdf>

2022

• Kim, H., & Tremblay, A. (2022). 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. 7:845430.

• Tremblay, A., Kim, H., Dobbs, K., Kim, S., & Cho, T. (2022). 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, A74. 

• Yang, T.-H., & Tremblay, A. (2022). Perception of English lexical stress in different intonational contexts by Mandarin listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152, A264.

• Zora, H., Gussenhoven, C., Tremblay, A., & Liu, F. (2022). Editorial: Crosstalk between intonation and lexical tones: Linguistic, cognitive and neuroscience perspectives. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 1101499. <https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1101499/full>

• Zora, H., Gussenhoven, C., Tremblay, A., & Liu, F. (Eds.) (2022). Crosstalk between intonation and lexical tones: Linguistic, cognitive and neuroscience perspectives. Frontiers in Psychology. <https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/26186/crosstalk-between-intonation-and-lexical-tones-linguistic-cognitive-and-neuroscience-perspectives>.

2025

• Tremblay, A., Broersma, M., Cho, T., Kim, H., Qin, Z., Liang, J., Nuñez, A., Terrazas, F. (upcoming, December). Cross-linguistic transfer in lexical stress perception: A cue-weighting typology. Poster to be presented at the 189th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Honolulu.

• Tremblay, A. (upcoming, November). Experience-driven cue weighting in bilingual speech perception: Effects of L1, dominance, and training in Spanish-English listeners. Plenary lecture to be presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. University of Arizona.

• Nuñez, A., & Tremblay, A. (2025, October). Producción de la fricativa labiodental [v] en hablantes por herencia del español [Production of the labiodental fricative [v] by Spanish heritage speakers]. Paper presented at the 4th Jornadas de lenguas extranjeras: Literatura, diversidad e interculturalidad. Universidad Autónoma de Entre Ríos, Argentina.

• Tremblay, A., & Kim, H. (2025, October). Perceptual plasticity in bilinguals: Language dominance reshapes acoustic cue weightings. Paper presented at the Meeting of the Association for Research on Memory, Attention, Decision making, Intelligence, Language, Learning, and Organization (Southwest Cognition Conference). The University of Texas at El Paso. 

• Terrazas, F., Nuñez, A., & Tremblay, A. (2025, June). Learnability challenges in L2 learners’ weighting of acoustic cues to lexical stress. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Bilingualism. San Sebastián, Spain.

• Minjarez-Oppenheimer, N. I., & Tremblay, A. (2025, April). Language dominance predicts cue-weighting transfer. Paper presented at the 11th International Symposium on Second Language Speech (New Sounds 2025). University of Toronto, Canada. 

• Nuñez, A., & Tremblay, A. (2025, April). Status of the labiodental fricative [v] for Spanish speakers in the US. Paper presented at the 29th Conference of Spanish in the United States and 14th Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages. University of Texas at San Antonio.

• Terrazas, F., Nuñez, A., & Tremblay, A. (2025, April). Perceptual training outcomes in Spanish-English listeners’ weightings of cues to lexical stress. Poster presented at the Third Annual UTEP Symposium on Language and Bilingualism. University of Texas at El Paso. 

2024

• Nuñez, A., & Tremblay, A. (2024, November). Production of labiodental fricative [v] in Heritage speakers of Spanish. Paper presented at the 16th High Desert Linguistics Society Conference, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. 

• Tremblay, A., Kim, H., Kim, S., & Cho, T. (2024, May). Limits of short-term perceptual training for enhancing Seoul-Korean listeners’ use of English lexical stress in spoken word recognition. Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.

• Minjarez-Oppenheimer, N. I., & Tremblay, A. (2024, April). Investigating the production and perception of lexical stress in English as a second language: A cue-weighting approach. Paper presented at the Second annual UTEP Symposium on Language and Bilingualism, University of Texas at El Paso. 

• Nuñez, A., & Tremblay, A. (2024, April). Production of labiodental fricative [v] in Heritage speakers of Spanish. Paper presented at the Second annual UTEP Symposium on Language and Bilingualism, University of Texas at El Paso.

• Tremblay, A. (2024, February). First-language cue weightings transfer across second-language contrasts and functions. Lecture presented in the Lecture Series of the Center for Research on Bilingualism at Stockholm University. 

2023

• Kim, H., & Tremblay, A. (2023, August). Korean listeners’ weighting and integration of cues to the three-way Korean stop contrast. Poster presented at the International Congress for Phonetic Sciences 2023. Prague, Czech Republic. 

• Tremblay, A. (2023, March). Cue-weighting transfer in second-language speech segmentation. Lecture presented in the Lecture Series of the Department of Linguistics. The University of Texas at Austin. 

• Tremblay, A., Kim, H., Kim, S., & Cho, T. (2023, August). Perceptual training enhances the use of vowel quality cues to lexical stress: The benefits of intonational variability. Paper presented at the International Congress for Phonetic Sciences 2023. Prague, Czech Republic.

2022

• Kim, H., & Tremblay, A. (2022, April). Testing the Cue-Weighting Transfer Hypothesis with Korean and French listeners’ perception of English lexical stress. Poster presented at the the 10th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech (New Sounds 2022). University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

• Tremblay, A. (2022, September). The scope of L1-to-L2 cue-weighting transfer in speech perception and spoken word recognition. Lecture presented in the Lecture Series of the Department of Linguistics and Languages. McMaster University, Canada.

• Tremblay, A. (2022, April). Recognizing spoken words in a second language: A cue-weighting approach. Plenary lecture to be presented the 10thInternational Conference on Second-Language Speech (New Sounds 2022). University of Barcelona, Spain.

• Tremblay, A. (2022, February). Elucidating the scope of L1-to-L2 cue-weighting trasnfer in speech perception and spoken word recognition. Lecture presented at the University of Texas at El Paso.  

• Tremblay, A., Kim, H., Dobbs, K., Kim, S., & Cho, T. (2022, December). Perceptual training enhances Seoul Korean listeners’ use of vowel quality and pitch cues to English lexical stress. Poster presented at the 183rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Nashville. 

• Yang, T.-H., & Tremblay, A. (2022, December). Perception of English lexical stress in different intonational contexts by Mandarin listeners. Poster presented at the 183rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Nashville.