2026 Sharon Peperkamp: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	37	6222	5779	69	51	103	6195

Overview

Sharon Peperkamp is affiliated with the École Normale Supérieure in France. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on psychology and social sciences, with particular engagement in experimental and cognitive psychology, developmental and educational psychology, linguistics and language, as well as artificial intelligence.

Their scholarly output centers on topics related to phonetics and phonology research, linguistic variation and morphology, speech and dialogue systems, language development and disorders, reading and literacy development, syntax, semantics, linguistic variation, and language, metaphor, and cognition.

Frequent publication venues for Sharon Peperkamp include:

Second language Research
Linguistics Vanguard
Phonology
Journal of Language and Social Psychology
Bilingualism Language and Cognition

Sharon Peperkamp has collaborated frequently with a core group of co-authors:

Alexander Martin
Gerda Ana Melnik
Hualin Xiao
Brent Strickland
M. Julia Carbajal

Their recent papers include:

Phonetically natural rules benefit from a learning bias: a re-examination of vowel harmony and disharmony (2020, Phonology)
On the relationship between perception and production of L2 sounds: Evidence from Anglophones' processing of the French /u/-/y/ contrast (2021, Second language Research)
How Fair is Gender-Fair Language? Insights from Gender Ratio Estimations in French (2022, Journal of Language and Social Psychology)
High-Variability Phonetic Training enhances second language lexical processing: evidence from online training of French learners of English (2020, Bilingualism Language and Cognition)
A meta-analysis of infants' word-form recognition (2021, Infancy)

Best Publications

Persistent stress ‘deafness’: The case of French learners of Spanish

Emmanuel Dupoux;Núria Sebastián-Gallés;Eduardo Navarrete;Sharon Peperkamp;Sharon Peperkamp

443
Citations
A robust method to study stress "deafness".

Emmanuel Dupoux;Sharon Peperkamp;Núria Sebastián-Gallés

430
Citations
Reinterpreting loanword adaptations: the role of perception

Sharon Peperkamp;Emmanuel Dupoux

387
Citations
A typological study of stress ‘deafness’

Sharon Peperkamp;Emmanuel Dupoux

305
Citations
Phonological phrase boundaries constrain lexical access II. Infant data

Anne Christophe;Sharon Peperkamp;Sharon Peperkamp;Christophe Pallier;Eliza Block

276
Citations
The acquisition of allophonic rules: Statistical learning with linguistic constraints

Sharon Peperkamp;Rozenn Le Calvez;Rozenn Le Calvez;Jean-Pierre Nadal;Emmanuel Dupoux

250
Citations
A Psycholinguistic Theory of Loanword Adaptations

Sharon Peperkamp

219
Citations
On the perceptual origin of loanword adaptations: experimental evidence from Japanese

Sharon Peperkamp;Inga Vendelin;Kimihiro Nakamura

204
Citations
The influence of orthography on loanword adaptations

Inga Vendelin;Sharon Peperkamp

189
Citations
Perception of predictable stress: A cross-linguistic investigation

Sharon Peperkamp;Inga Vendelin;Emmanuel Dupoux

189
Citations
Discovering words in the continuous speech stream: the role of prosody

Anne Christophe;Ariel Gout;Sharon Peperkamp;Sharon Peperkamp;James Morgan;James Morgan

176
Citations
Limits on bilingualism revisited: Stress ‘deafness’ in simultaneous French–Spanish bilinguals

Emmanuel Dupoux;Sharon Peperkamp;Sharon Peperkamp;Núria Sebastián-Gallés

171
Citations
Where Do Illusory Vowels Come from

Emmanuel Dupoux;Emmanuel Dupoux;Erika Parlato;Sonia Frota;Yuki Hirose

171
Citations
Adaptation to novel accents: feature-based learning of context-sensitive phonological regularities.

Katrin Skoruppa;Sharon Peperkamp

166
Citations
Language-specific stress perception by 9-month-old French and Spanish infants.

Katrin Skoruppa;Katrin Skoruppa;Ferran Pons;Anne Christophe;Anne Christophe;Laura Bosch

146
Citations
Rapid Acquisition of Phonological Alternations by Infants

Katherine S. White;Sharon Peperkamp;Cecilia Kirk;James L. Morgan

142
Citations
Learning Phonemes With a Proto-Lexicon

Andrew Martin;Andrew Martin;Sharon Peperkamp;Emmanuel Dupoux

113
Citations
Consonants are More Important than Vowels in the Bouba-kiki Effect.

Mathilde Fort;Alexander Martin;Sharon Peperkamp

113
Citations
Symbouki: a meta-analysis on the emergence of sound symbolism in early language acquisition.

Mathilde Fort;Mathilde Fort;Imme Lammertink;Sharon Peperkamp;Sharon Peperkamp;Adriana Guevara-Rukoz

113
Citations
Phonetically natural rules benefit from a learning bias: a re-examination of vowel harmony and disharmony

Alexander Martin;Sharon Peperkamp

108
Citations
Low inhibitory skill leads to non-native perception and production in bilinguals’ native language

Shiri Lev-Ari;Sharon Peperkamp

98
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Emmanuel Dupoux School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

Anne Christophe École Normale Supérieure

Núria Sebastián-Gallés Pompeu Fabra University

James L. Morgan Brown University

René Kager Utrecht University

Jacques Mehler International School for Advanced Studies

Andrew J. Martin University of New South Wales

Sid Kouider École Normale Supérieure

Franck Ramus École Normale Supérieure

Kim Plunkett University of Oxford

External Links

Personal website of Sharon Peperkamp Google Scholar page

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