Ashley Farris-Trimble, Simon Fraser University

Research

phonology learning experimental computational word recognition eye-tracking artificial grammars first language acquisition

Latest papers

Learning Accurate Onset Clusters: Perception Lags Behind Production.
Language and speech · 2026 · senior author
Waiting for lexical access: Cochlear implants or severely degraded input lead listeners to process speech less incrementally.
Cognition · 2017
The Effect of Residual Acoustic Hearing and Adaptation to Uncertainty on Speech Perception in Cochlear Implant Users: Evidence From Eye-Tracking.
Ear and hearing · 2016

All 3 publications

Latest funding

Phonological typology, s-clusters, and linguistic universals
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$33,263
Phonological typology, s-clusters, and linguistic universals
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$33,463
Learning complex phonology: Evidence from child, adult and simulated learners
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$103,948

All 5 grants and awards

3 publications.

01

Learning Accurate Onset Clusters: Perception Lags Behind Production.

Moore-Cantwell C, Tessier AM, Farris-Trimble A

Language and speech2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/00238309251362881 PMID: 41109849

02

Waiting for lexical access: Cochlear implants or severely degraded input lead listeners to process speech less incrementally.

McMurray B, Farris-Trimble A, Rigler H

Cognition2017

DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2017.08.013 PMID: 28917133

03

The Effect of Residual Acoustic Hearing and Adaptation to Uncertainty on Speech Perception in Cochlear Implant Users: Evidence From Eye-Tracking.

McMurray B, Farris-Trimble A, Seedorff M, Rigler H

Ear and hearing2016

DOI: 10.1097/aud.0000000000000207 PMID: 26317298

Phonological typology, s-clusters, and linguistic universals

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Farris-Trimble, Ashley

Keywords: phonology; typology; s-clusters; artificial grammar learning; syllable structure

$33,263

Phonological typology, s-clusters, and linguistic universals

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Farris-Trimble, Ashley

Keywords: phonology; typology; s-clusters; artificial grammar learning; syllable structure

$33,463

Learning complex phonology: Evidence from child, adult and simulated learners

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Farris-Trimble, Ashley W.

Keywords: phonology; learning; experimental; computational; word recognition; eye-tracking; artificial grammars; first language acquisition

$103,948

English spoken by immigrant children: learning a second language phonology in early childhood

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Tessier, Anne-Michelle

Keywords: children; immigrants; language acquisition; English as a second language; computational modeling

$185,315

Determining the specificity of children's phonological representations with eye-tracking

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Farris-Trimble, Ashley

Keywords: language acquisition; phonology; lexical representations; word recognition; eye-tracking; psycholinguistics

$62,908

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Anne-Michelle Tessier

Department of Linguistics

1 shared papers, latest 2026

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: phonology Dear Professor Farris-Trimble, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Learning Accurate Onset Clusters: Perception Lags Behind Production." (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Phonological typology, s-clusters, and linguistic universals" (2022), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]