The Department of Languages and Linguistics Welcomes Dr. Caitlin Coughlin and Dr. Annie Tremblay
The Department of Languages and Linguistics welcomes Assistant Professor Caitlin Coughlin and Professor Annie Tremblay! Dr. Coughlin’s research uses psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic techniques to investigate how adult bilinguals store and access words in their mental lexicon, and whether individual variability in proficiency and reading ability can explain their processing behavior. More information about Dr. Coughlin can be found here: https://www.caitlinecoughlin.com. Dr. Tremblay’s 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. More information about Dr. Tremblay can be found here: https://www.annietremblay.com.