About

Bienvenido!

I am a PhD student at the School of Psychological Science at the University of Bristol under the supervision of Dr Nina Kazanina.

My research is a mix of two worlds. My early research is mainly related to phonetic descriptions of Chilean Spanish and Mapudungun (a vernacular language spoken in Chile and Argentina). After conducting several acoustic analyses on speech and "seeing" all the weird stuff we do when we speak, I switched my research interest to speech perception, cognitive sciences and neuroscience, just to dig a bit more into how we deal with such a mess. My main PhD project focuses on how we adapt to a non-native accent, and more specifically, how we learn/adapt to the “sublexical irregularities” of non-native accents and the impact that this learning process might have on listeners. I am also working on other projects related to accent/speaker recognition, memory, negation processing, and sleep.

 

BTW, if you are confused about how to pronounce my name, it's something like [da.'ɾi.o|'fuen.tes|gɾan̪.'don] (to simplify things, I didn't specify the vowels properly), but I'm totally fine with ['da.ɻio] (the English version).