About

Bienvenido!

I am a cognitive scientist with a focus on phonetics, phonology, and speech perception. My early research primarily centered around 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 strange things we do when we speak, I shifted my research focus to speech perception, cognitive sciences, and neuroscience, to delve deeper into how we process such chaos.

My main PhD project, under the supervision of Dr. Nina Kazanina at the University of Bristol, focused on how we adapt to non-native accents. More specifically, how we learn and adapt to the "sublexical irregularities" of non-native accents and the impact this learning process has on listeners. Recently, I have been involved in other projects related to accent and speaker recognition, memory, negation processing, sleep, and the speech sounds of the Aymara language. I also have a strong interest in data analysis, with a specific focus on Bayesian statistics.

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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).