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 am currently in my second year of a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Catalunya, where I am working with Professor Miquel Llompart looking at 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, which I hope can be useful!

Recent news

New paper with Gemma Repiso! Gemma invited me to work on this paper with her at ICPhS in 2023, analyzing the tap-trill contrast in Spanish (this was right after working on Spanish taps for four years, obviously I didn’t get sick of them). We look at how duration is used as an acoustic cue to this contrast by heritage speakers and monolinguals, and how this differs between children and adults.

Paper on morphosyntax? For this paper I worked together with Adriana Soto-Corominas and Sílvia Perpiñán looking at how three clitics in Catalan are acquired according to language dominance. My main contribution to this paper is the analysis, where I focused on creating models that better quantified our uncertainty.

Here is a fun proceedings replicating a finding from my dissertation! Here is an analysis of some Spanish corpus data replicating a finding of my dissertation. It was a fun conference, and I even got to meet Lindblom!