Sharon Andrea Peperkamp (b. 1967) is a Dutch

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

and senior research scientist with the

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(CNRS). Since 2010 she has served as director of research of the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (LSCP) in

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. Topics of Peperkamp's research include

phonology Phonology (formerly also phonemics or phonematics: "phonemics ''n.'' 'obsolescent''1. Any procedure for identifying the phonemes of a language from a corpus of data. 2. (formerly also phonematics) A former synonym for phonology, often pre ...

phonetics Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds or, in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Linguists who specialize in studying the physical properties of speech are phoneticians ...

, prosody,

multilingualism Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. When the languages are just two, it is usually called bilingualism. It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolin ...

, and

speech perception Speech perception is the process by which the sounds of language are heard, interpreted, and understood. The study of speech perception is closely linked to the fields of phonology and phonetics in linguistics and cognitive psychology and percept ...

. One of her major contributions is in helping to establish the concept of stress "deafness".

Biography

Peperkamp earned her PhD in linguistics at the

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in 1997, and earned a

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at the

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(EHESS), Paris, in 2002. Peperkamp has served in numerous senior leadership positions within the

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(ENS), one of the constituent members of

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(PSL). She served as director of the Département d'Etudes Cognitives (DEC) from 2014 to 2022; as founding director of the Frontiers in Cognition initiative for DEC and PSL from 2018 to 2022; as director of LabEx "Institut d'Étude de la Cognition" at ENS from 2014 to 2018. From 2007 to 2009 she served as a Déléguée Scientifique, Agence d'Evaluation de la Recherche et de l'Enseignement Supérieur. She also held the title of

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(equivalent to Assistant/Associate Professor) in the Department of Linguistics, University of Paris 8, from 1999 to 2010. Prior to these positions, she was

postdoctoral Fellow A postdoctoral fellow, postdoctoral researcher, or simply postdoc, is a person professionally conducting research after the completion of their doctoral studies (typically a PhD). Postdocs most commonly, but not always, have a temporary academ ...

at the LSCP from 1998 to 1999. Peperkamp was one of the scientists interviewed for the film '' Poétique du cerveau''.

Selected publications

* Peperkamp, Sharon Andrea. Prosodic words. Vol. 34. The Hague: Holland Academic Graphics, 1997. * Peperkamp, Sharon, and Emmanuel Dupoux. "Reinterpreting loanword adaptations: the role of perception." Proceedings of the 15th international congress of phonetic sciences. Vol. 367. 2003. * Peperkamp, Sharon, and Emmanuel Dupoux. "A typological study of stress ‘deafness’." Laboratory phonology 7.2000 (2002): 203-240. * Peperkamp, Sharon. "A psycholinguistic theory of loanword adaptations." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 2004. * Peperkamp, Sharon, Inga Vendelin, and Emmanuel Dupoux. "Perception of predictable stress: A cross-linguistic investigation." Journal of Phonetics 38.3 (2010): 422–430.

References

External links

Faculty page at LSCP
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Perpkamp, Sharon Living people Linguists from the Netherlands Psycholinguists Phonologists Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research Women linguists 1967 births