Santiago Barreda Castañón
Department of Linguistics
University of California Davis
265 Kerr Hall, One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
sbarreda@ucdavis.edu
EMPLOYMENT
2021-Present Associate Professor, University of California Davis, Department of Linguistics
2014-2021 Assistant Professor, University of California Davis, Department of Linguistics
2013-2014 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Arizona, Department of Physiology
EDUCATION
2008-2013 PhD. Linguistics, Phonetics, University of Alberta. Thesis: Cognitively-Active Speaker Normalization Based on Formant-Frequency Scaling Estimation
2006-2008 MA. Hispanic Studies, Language and Linguistics, University of Western Ontario. Thesis: The acquisition of Canadian English vowels by L1 Spanish speakers.
2002-2006 BA Combined Honours, Linguistics and Spanish Language and Literature, University of Western Ontario.
BOOKS
PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS
2023
2021
2020
Barreda, S. (2020). Vowel Normalization as Perceptual Constancy. Language, 96:2, 1-31.
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015…
PROCEEDINGS AND WORKING PAPERS
Brotherton, C., Cohn, M., Zellou, G., & Barreda, S. (2019). Sub-regional variation in positioning and degree of nasalization of/æ/allophones in California. In Proceedings of the XIX International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.
Cohn, M., Zellou, G., & Barreda, S. (2019). The Role of Musical Experience in the Perceptual Weighting of Acoustic Cues for the Obstruent Coda Voicing Contrast in American English. Proc. Interspeech 2019, 2250-2254.
Šuch, O., Barreda, S., Klimo, M., Tarábek, P., & Tinajová, A. (2018). Comparing Classification Methods in Isolated Vowel Classification. In 2018 World Symposium on Digital Intelligence for Systems and Machines (DISA) (pp. 331-337). IEEE.
PRESENTATIONS
Barreda, S. (2023). Non-uniform scaling of formant patterns is phonetically salient. Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Denver.
Barreda, S. (2019). Perceptual validation of vowel normalization methods for variationist research. NWAV 49, Eugene, Oregon.
Brotherton, C., Cohn, M., Zellou, G., & Barreda, S. (2019). Sub-regional variation in positioning and degree of nasalization of /æ/ allophones in California. The XIX International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Melbourne, Australia.
Cohn, M., Zellou, G., & Barreda, S. (2019). The Role of Musical Experience in the Perceptual Weighting of Acoustic Cues for the Obstruent Coda Voicing Contrast in American English. Interspeech 2019, Vienna.
Brotherton, C., Cohn, M., Zellou, G., & Barreda, S. (2019). Regional variation in vowel positioning and diphthongization in TRAP allophones in California. Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New York.
Barreda, S. (2019). A theoretical and statistical investigation of vowel normalization procedures. Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New York.
Barreda, S., Liu, Z. Y. (2019). The effect of linguistic experience on the perception of talker height from speech. Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New York.
DeLucia, C. M., Barreda, S., Vranish, J. R., & Bailey, E. F. (2018). Can Daytime Measures of Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia and Breathing Stability Serve as Biomarkers for OSA?. Experimental Biology, San Diego, California.
Assmann, P. F., Kapolowicz, M. R., & Barreda, S. (2018). Perception of talker height and sex from children’s voices. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 144(3), 1964-1964.
Šuch, O., Barreda, S., Klimo, M., Tarábek, P., & Tinajová, A. (2018). Comparing Classification Methods in Isolated Vowel Classification. 2018 World Symposium on Digital Intelligence for Systems and Machines, Kosice, Slovakia.
Barreda, S., & Nearey, T. M. (2017). A regression approach to vowel normalization for missing and unbalanced data. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 142(4), 2583-2583. New Orleans.
Nearey, T. M., Barreda, S., Kiefte, M., & Assmann, P. F. (2017). Random effects and the evaluation of the uniform scaling hypothesis for vowels. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(5), 3582-3582.
Barreda, S. (2016). Investigating the sliding template model of vowel perception. The 172th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Honolulu, HI.
Zellou, G., Barreda, S, McIntyre, N., Swain-Lerro, L., Zajic, M., and Peter Mundy. The role of fundamental and formant frequency information on voice and speaker perception in children with Autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity. 15th Laboratory Phonology Conference (LabPhon 15), July 17-19, Ithaca, NY.
Barreda, S. and Georgia, Z. (2015). Speaker identity and spectral changes in word recognition. The 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVIII), Glasgow, UK.
Barreda, S., Vranish, J. R., and E. Fiona Bailey. (2015). A novel approach for the analysis of respiratory sinus arrhythmia using breath phase information. Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C..
Assmann, P., Kapolowicz, M., Massey, D., Barreda, S. and T. Nearey. (2015). Links between the perception of speaker age and sex in children’s voices. The 170th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Jacksonville, FL.
Nearey, T., Tucker, B., and S. Barreda. (2015). Unraveling phonological versus auditory context effects in the perception of synthetic liquid+stop clusters. The 2015 Annual Conference of the Canadian Acoustical Association. Halifax, NS.
Barreda, S. and Georgia Zellou. 2015. Speaker identity and spectral changes in word recognition. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, UK.
Barreda, S., Vranish, J. R., and E. Fiona Bailey. (2014). A novel approach for the analysis of respiratory sinus arrhythmia using breath phase information. Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C..
Assmann, P., Kapolowicz, M., Massey, D., Barreda, S., and T. Nearey. (2014). Perception of speaker sex in re‐synthesized children’s voices. The 167th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Providence, RI.
Assmann, P., Barreda, S. and T. Nearey. (2013). Modeling the perception of speaker age and sex in children’s voices. The 166th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Francisco, CA.
Barreda, S. and Nearey, T. (2013). Investigating the perception of relative speaker size using synthetic talkers. The 166th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Francisco, CA.
Barreda, S. and Nearey, T. (2012). The association between speaker-dependent formant space estimates and perceived vowel quality. The 2012 Annual Conference of the Canadian Acoustical Association. Banff, AB.
Barreda, S. and Nearey, T. (2011). Formant frequencies, vowel identity and the perceived relative tallness of synthetic speakers. The 162nd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, CA.
Barreda, S. and Nearey, T. (2011). Training listeners to report fundamental frequency and formant range information independently. The 161th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, WA.
Barreda, S. and Nearey, T. (2010). Using systematic synthetic voice differences to probe the perception of mixed-talker vowels. The 160th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Cancun, Mexico.
Barreda, S. and Nearey, T. (2010). The relationship between fundamental frequency and vowel quality. The 159th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Baltimore, MA.
Barreda, S. and Nearey, T. (2010). How the role of F3 in vowel perception may be influenced by listener expectations. The 2010 Annual Conference of the Canadian Acoustical Association. Victoria, BC.
Barreda, S. (2009). The use of trigrams in the classification of texts based on authorship. Conference of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics. University of Alberta.
Barreda, S. (2008). Perception and Production of Canadian English Vowels by L1 Spanish Speakers. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. The University of Laval.
Barreda, S. (2008). Spanish stress placement by L1 English speakers of L2 Spanish. 9th Annual Graduate Conference Hosted by Comparative Literature, Spanish and Theory and Criticism. The University of Western Ontario.
Barreda, S. (2007). The Role of Perception in L2 Spanish Stress Assignment. Ontario dialogues on the acquisition of Spanish, University of Ottawa.
SOFTWARE
Barreda, S. (2022). FastTrack: Fast (nearly) automatic formant tracking in Praat.
Barreda, S. (2015). phonTools: Functions for phonetics in R. R package version 0.2-0.