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. [link]

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 

Barreda, S. & N. Silbert. (2023). Bayesian multilevel models for repeated measures data: A practical and conceptual introduction in R. Routledge.[Bookdown] [AMAZON]

Publications in refereed journals

2024

Barreda, S., & Predeck, K. (2024). Inaccurate but predictable: Vocal-tract length estimation and gender stereotypes in height perception. Journal of Phonetics, 102, 101290.[link]

2023

Gwizdzinski, J., Barreda, S., Carignan, C., & Zellou, G. (2023). Perceptual identification of oral and nasalized vowels across American English and British English listeners and TTS voices. Frontiers in Communication, 8.[link]

Anikin, A., Barreda, S., & Reby, D. (2023). A practical guide to calculating vocal tract length and scale-invariant formant patterns. Behavior Research Methods, 1-17.[link]

Choe, D. E., Barreda, S., Galán, C. A., Gardner, F., Wilson, M. N., Dishion, T. J., & Shaw, D. S. (2023). Early childhood predictors of early school‐age academic skills and resilience among children living in poverty. Social Development.[link]

Cohn, M., Barreda, S., & Zellou, G. (2023). Differences in a Musician’s Advantage for Speech-in-Speech Perception Based on Age and Task. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-20.[link]

2021

Barreda, S. & P. Assmann. (2021). Perception of Gender in Children’s Voices. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150(5), 3949-3963.[link]

Cappa, C. D., San Francisco Opera Costume Department, Ristenpart, W. D., Barreda, S., Bouvier, N. M., Levintal, E., … & Roman, S. A. (2021). A highly efficient cloth facemask design. Aerosol Science and Technology, 1-17.[link]

Cappa, C. D., Asadi, S., Barreda, S., Wexler, A. S., Bouvier, N. M., & Ristenpart, W. D. (2021). Expiratory aerosol particle escape from surgical masks due to imperfect sealing. Scientific reports, 11(1), 1-12.[link]

Barreda (2021). Fast Track: fast, (nearly) automatic formant-tracking using Praat. Linguistics Vanguard.[link]

Barreda, S. (2021). Perceptual validation of vowel normalization methods for variationist research. Language Variation and Change.[link]

2020

Asadi, S., Cappa, C. D., Barreda, S., Wexler, A. S., Bouvier, N. M. & Ristenpart, W. D. (2020). Efficacy of masks and face coverings in controlling aerosol particle emission from expiratory activities. Scientific reports. [link]

Barreda, S. (2020). Vowel Normalization as Perceptual Constancy. Language, 96:2, 1-31.[link]

Zellou, G., Barreda, S., & Ferenc Segedin, B. (2020). Partial perceptual compensation for nasal coarticulation is robust to fundamental frequency variation. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147(3), EL271-EL276.[link]

Asadi, S., Wexler, A. S., Cappa, C. D., Barreda, S., Bouvier, N. M., & Ristenpart, W. D. (2020). Effect of voicing and articulation manner on aerosol particle emission during human speech. PloS one, 15(1), e0227699.[link]

2019

Asadi, S., Wexler, A. S., Cappa, C. D., Barreda, S., Bouvier, N. M., Ristenpart, W. D. (2019). Aerosol emission and superemission during human speech increase with voice loudness. Scientific Reports.[link]

2018

Barreda, S., & Nearey, T. M. (2018). A regression approach to vowel normalization for missing and unbalanced data. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.[link]

Barreda, S., & Assmann, P. F. (2018). Modeling the perception of children’s age from speech acoustics. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, EL.[link]

Barreda, S., & Liu, Z. Y. (2018). Apparent-talker height is influenced by Mandarin lexical tone. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, EL.[link]

2017

Barreda, S. (2017). An investigation of the systematic use of spectral information in the determination of apparent-talker height. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.[link]

Barreda, S. (2017). Listeners respond to phoneme-specific spectral information when assessing speaker size from speech. Journal of Phonetics.[link]

2016

Such, O. and S. Barreda. (2016). Bayes covariant multi-class classification. Pattern Recognition Letters.[link]

Kidder, I. J., Mudery, J. A., Barreda, S., Taska, D. J., and Bailey, E. F. (2016). Evaluating the control: Mini-pump implantation and breathing behavior in the neonatal rat. Journal of Applied Physiology.[link]

Barreda, S. (2016). Investigating the use of formant frequencies in listener judgments of speaker size. Journal of Phonetics 55: 1-18.[link]

2015…

Barreda, S., Kidder, I., Mudery, J. and E. F. Bailey. (2015). Developmental nicotine exposure adversely effects respiratory patterning in vivo. Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology 208: 45-50.[link]

Barreda, S. and Nearey, T. (2013). Training listeners to report the acoustic correlate of formant-frequency scaling using synthetic voices. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 133(2): 1065-1077.[link]

Barreda, S. (2012). Vowel normalization and the perception of speaker changes: An exploration of the contextual tuning hypothesis. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 132(5): 3453-3464.[link]

Barreda, S. and T.M. Nearey. (2012a). The direct and indirect roles of fundamental frequency in vowel perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 131(1): 466-477.[link]

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.

Barreda, S. and Georgia, Z. (2015). Speaker identity and spectral changes in word recognition. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVIII), August, Glasgow, UK.[link]

Barreda, S. and T. Nearey. (2013). The perception of formant-frequency range is affected by veridical and judged fundamental frequency. Proceedings of the 21st International conference on Acoustics, Montreal, 2013.[link]

Assmann, P., Barreda, S. and T. Nearey. (2013). Perception of speaker age in children’s voices. Proceedings of the 21st International conference on Acoustics, Montreal, 2013.[link]

Barreda, S. and Nearey, T. (2012b). The association between speaker-dependent formant space estimates and perceived vowel quality. Canadian Acoustics 40: 12-13.[link]

Barreda, S. (2011).The Tsuut’ina Vocalic System. Rochester Working Papers in the Language Sciences 6: 1-10.[link]

Barreda, S. and T. M. Nearey. (2010). How the role of F3 in vowel perception may be influenced by listener expectations. Canadian Acoustics 38: 124-125.[link]

Presentations

Barreda, S. (2023). There is no female vocal tract: Abandoning essentialist ideology in phonetics. Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New York.[link]

Barreda, S. (2023). Non-uniform scaling of formant patterns is phonetically salient. Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Denver.

Thomas, A., Barreda, S., & P. Assmann. (2023). Perception of talker height in children’s productions of sustained/ɑ/. The 153th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Chicago.[link]

Thomas, A., Barreda, S., & Assmann, P. (2019). Acoustic correlates of talker height in children’s voices. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146(4), 2925-2925.[link]

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.[link]

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.