I’m an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at UC Davis and co-director of the UC Davis Phonetics Lab.

I’m a phonetician, mostly interested in speech perception. I am interested in questions like:

• How do you know what speech sounds you are listening to?

• How Do listeners turn acoustic information into vowel quality, the auditory taste of the vowel?

• How can you tell how big/small young/old someone is from their voice? What does it mean to ‘sound’ like a ‘woman’ or a ‘man’, or to sound ‘straight’?

• How does speech perception relate to the perception of speaker characteristics?

I investigate these topics using behavioral experiments (I play speakers a sound and ask them, what did you hear?), and using statistical models to investigate the results. https://santiagobarreda.com/bmmrmd/introduction-experiments-and-variables.html I also write software for phonetic analysis, lately focused on formant tracking, and am interested in statistical methods for the analysis of linguistic data.

I can be contacted at sbarreda@ucdavis.edu, or found at 265 Kerr Hall.