Anne-Michelle Tessier, University of British Columbia

Research

Read how they describe their research on their University of British Columbia profile.

Latest papers

Learning Accurate Onset Clusters: Perception Lags Behind Production.
Language and speech · 2026
Acquisition of consonants among typically developing Akan-speaking children: A preliminary report.
International journal of speech-language pathology · 2020 · senior author
U-shaped development in error-driven child phonology.
Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science · 2019 · first author

All 3 publications

Latest funding

Mapping and modelling grammatical person and voice in Ojibwe
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$87,517
Learning French Liaison: the roles of input, grammar and frequency
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$13,078
Sociopolitical and sociocultural dimensions of learning Chinese as an additional language: Changing global contexts, media discourse, and learners
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$52,469

All 4 grants and awards

3 publications.

01

Learning Accurate Onset Clusters: Perception Lags Behind Production.

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

Language and speech2026

DOI: 10.1177/00238309251362881 PMID: 41109849

02

Acquisition of consonants among typically developing Akan-speaking children: A preliminary report.

Amoako WK, Stemberger JP, Bernhardt BM, Tessier AM

International journal of speech-language pathology2020Senior author

DOI: 10.1080/17549507.2020.1825804 PMID: 33337249

03

U-shaped development in error-driven child phonology.

Tessier AM

Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science2019First author

DOI: 10.1002/wcs.1505 PMID: 31148415

Mapping and modelling grammatical person and voice in Ojibwe

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Hammerly, Christopher

Keywords: grammatical person; grammatical voice; Algonquian; Ojibwe; language revitalization; language documentation; psycholinguistics; syntax; morphology

$87,517

Learning French Liaison: the roles of input, grammar and frequency

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Tessier, Anne-Michelle

Keywords: child language acquisition; Laurentian French; constraint-based phonology; language variation; laboratory phonology; computational modeling

$13,078

Sociopolitical and sociocultural dimensions of learning Chinese as an additional language: Changing global contexts, media discourse, and learners

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Duff, Patricia A.

Keywords: Chinese language learning; global Chinese; diversity; identity; ideologies; language socialization; transnationalism; learning trajectories; multilingualism; Mandarin; media; sociopolitical; sociocultural

$52,469

Learning French Liaison: the roles of input, grammar and frequency

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Tessier, Anne-Michelle

Keywords: child language acquisition; Laurentian French; constraint-based phonology; language variation; laboratory phonology; computational modeling

$51,979

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

Ashley Farris-Trimble

Phonology

1 shared papers, latest 2026

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Tessier, 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 "Learning French Liaison: the roles of input, grammar and frequency" (2023), 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]