Santiago Barreda Castañón

Santiago Barreda Castañón serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Davis and co-director of the UC Davis Phonetics Lab.

His phonetic research centers on speech perception mechanisms, specifically investigating how listeners decode acoustic signals into speech sounds and vowel qualities. Key research questions explore the relationship between vocal acoustics and perceived speaker characteristics including age, gender identity, and sexual orientation. His methodological approach combines behavioral experiments with advanced statistical modeling.

Dr. Barreda develops specialized phonetic analysis software with recent focus on formant tracking algorithms, while maintaining active interest in statistical methodologies for linguistic data interpretation. His laboratory work at the UC Davis Phonetics Lab drives innovation in experimental phonetics.

Professional correspondence may be directed to sbarreda@ucdavis.edu at 265 Kerr Hall on the UC Davis campus.