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Sharon Peperkamp

Sharon Peperkamp is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Sharon Peperkamp rather than just read about it. In short: Sharon Andrea Peperkamp (b. 1967) is a Dutch linguist and senior research scientist with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Since 2010 she has served as director of research of the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (LSCP) in Paris.

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Reference excerpt

Sharon Andrea Peperkamp (b. 1967) is a Dutch linguist and senior research scientist with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Since 2010 she has served as director of research of the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (LSCP) in Paris. Topics of Peperkamp's research include phonology, phonetics, prosody, multilingualism, and speech perception. One of her major contributions is in helping to establish the concept of stress "deafness".

Biography

Peperkamp earned her PhD in linguistics at the University of Amsterdam in 1997, and earned a Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris, in 2002. Peperkamp has served in numerous senior leadership positions within the École normale supérieure (ENS), one of the constituent members of Paris Sciences et Lettres University (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 Maître de Conférences (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 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 Sharon Peperkamp publications indexed by Google Scholar

Worked examples

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Sharon Peperkamp ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Sharon Peperkamp

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In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Sharon Peperkamp in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Sharon Peperkamp is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1967 births, Linguists from the Netherlands, Living people, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Sharon Peperkamp outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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