Scott James Perry

SSHRC postdoctoral fellow, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Welcome to my website! I am a phonetician whose research focuses on phonetic variability, bilingualism, and spoken word recognition. I defended my dissertation in May, and currently I am a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Catalunya. During my fellowship, I am working with Professor Miquel Llompart on how acoustic variability in the input impacts speech production and spoken word recognition in L1 and L2 speakers of Catalan. If you want to know more about me or my research, check out the rest of my website. I also have sections dedicated to materials that I have developed for research and teaching.

Recent news

Hot off the press! A new forced-aligner based on deep neural networks and interpolation.

My first, first-authored paper was published at the start of this year in JASA. We looked at the variability in the intensity of Spanish alveolar taps in a large corpus of spontaneous speech recorded in Madrid. Both a hand-coded subset of the data and the automated analysis of all intervocalic taps show that tap reduction is the norm, with around half of all productions being highly reduced or deleted!

My first ICPhS proceedings! Prague 2023 was my first time attending ICPhS, and I had a great time (minus catching COVID). The first chapter of my dissertation was published there, where we looked at different ways of automatically measuring the duration of Spanish taps and compared them to hand-measurements (none of the automated measurements worked particularly well). I also presented a research project I co-supervised together with my doctoral supervisor Ben Tucker. Laura Montoya Hernandez visited our lab as a Mitacs Globalink intern, and spent the summer investigating vowel quality in Central Mexican Spanish using corpus of spontaneous speech.