Papers

*denotes undergraduate student co-author

**denotes graduate student co-author

*Du, B., Pfiffner, A., & Johnson, K. Visible articulatory variation as a cue to sound change: Lip rounding and lip protrusion variability in the Mandarin sibilant merger. Manuscript to appear in Penn Working Papers in Linguistics volume 30.2 (Selected Papers from NWAV 51).

Pfiffner, A. M. (Under review). Cue-based features: A model of the phonetics/phonology interface.

Pfiffner, A. M. (Under review). Women of all ages lead tonogenesis in Afrikaans.

Pfiffner, A. M. (Accepted). Acoustic cues and obstruent devoicing in Minnesotan English. To appear in American Speech. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-10867196

Pfiffner, A. & Rosen, N. (2023). Stop voicing in two settler communities on the Canadian Prairies. In R. Skarnitzl & J. Voln (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 3662-3665). Guarant International.

Pfiffner, A. & *Martinez-Garcia, J. (2023). Spirantization of word-final plosives in Standard Dutch. In R. Skarnitzl & J. Voln (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 877-881). Guarant International.

Coretta, S., Casillas, J.V., […] & Roettger, T.B. (2023). Multidimensional signals and analytic flexibility: Estimating degrees of freedom in human speech analyses. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 6(3), 1-29.

Pfiffner, A. M. (2021). Cue-based features: Modeling change and variation in the voicing contrasts of Minnesotan English, Afrikaans, and Dutch. PhD thesis, Georgetown University.

Pfiffner, A. M. (2021). Perception and production of [voice] contrasts in Dutch word-initial plosives. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 6(1):340-353.

Sande, H., Oakley, M. & Pfiffner, A. (2020). Guébie. Ms, Georgetown University.

Pfiffner, A. M. (2019). Perceptual assimilation and orthographic effects in L2 allophonic acquisition. Ms, Georgetown University.

Presentations

Invited Presentations

Pfiffner, A. M. (2023, April). Phonetic cues & phonological features: Modeling plosive voicing contrasts in Afrikaans. Presented at the University of North Texas.

Pfiffner, A. M. (2022, October). Features, cues, and phonological contrast: A look at plosive voicing in Afrikaans. Presented at the Linguistics Colloquium at the University of California, Berkeley.

Invited Workshops

Pfiffner, A. M. (2023, April). LaTeX for Linguists. Presented for the Society of Linguistics Undergraduate Students at the University of California, Berkeley.

Pfiffner, A. M. (2022, July). The Montreal Forced Aligner: A workshop series in phonetic alignment & analysis. Presented virtually at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Manitoba.

Conference Presentations

*Hatch, L, **Russell, K. R., & Pfiffner, A. (2024, May). Phonetic and phonological characteristics of bilabial stops in the Potou languages. Paper to be presented at ACAL55, Montreal, Canada.

Pfiffner, A. (2024, January). Exploring the vowel space in Minnes[o]ta across apparent time. Paper presented at the American Dialect Society Annual Meeting 2024, New York, NY.

*Du, B., Pfiffner, A., & Johnson, K. (2024, January). The role of visible articulatory variation in the Mandarin sibilant contrast and merger. Paper presented at 2024 LSA Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

*Voronova-Baker, S. & Pfiffner, A. (2024, January). “She coughs like a man”: Acoustic gender cues in non-speech sounds of transgender female voices. Paper presented at 2024 LSA Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

*Du, B., Pfiffner, A., & Johnson, K. (2023, December). Consonant and vowel rounding: same acoustics, different visuals. Poster presented at ASA, Sydney, Australia.

*Du, B., Pfiffner, A., & Johnson, K. (2023, October). Visible articulatory variation as a cue to sound change: Lip rounding and lip protrusion variability in the Mandarin sibilant merger. Paper presented at NWAV51, New York, NY.

Rosen, N. & Pfiffner, A. (2023, October). A culture of labour: indexing `blue-collar' through a lower /s/ COG in Manitoba, Canada. Paper presented at NWAV51, New York, NY.

Pfiffner, A. (2023, September). Cue-based features: Explicitly modeling the phonetics in phonological contrast. Poster presented at MorrisHalle@100, Cambridge, MA.

Pfiffner, A. & Rosen, N. (2023, August). Stop voicing on the Canadian Prairies. Poster presented at ICPhS 2023, Prague, Czech Republic.

Pfiffner, A. & *Martinez-Garcia, J. (2023, August). Spirantization of word-final plosives in Standard Dutch. Poster presented at ICPhS 2023, Prague, Czech Republic.

Pfiffner, A. & Rosen, N. (2023, June). Stop voicing variation in rural Manitoba. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Toronto, Canada.

Pfiffner, A. & Rosen, N. (2023, January). Stop voicing on the Canadian Prairies. Paper presented at the American Dialect Society Annual Meeting 2023, Denver, CO.

Pfiffner, A. M. (2021, September). Women of all ages lead tonogensis in Afrikaans. Paper presented at the Afrikaans Grammar Workshop III, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Pfiffner, A. M. (2021, January). Perception and production of [voice] contrasts in Dutch word-initial plosives. Paper presented at the 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Held virtually.

Pfiffner, A. M. (2020, December). Word-final incomplete neutralization in Afrikaans: Differences in perception and production. Poster presented at the 179th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America: Acoustics Virtually Everywhere.

Pfiffner, A. M. (2020, July). Tonogenesis in Afrikaans: Transferring phonological contrast through enriched representations. Poster presented at the LabPhon 17 Satellite Workshop: Situating phonological contrast within the production-perception loop, held virtually.

Pfiffner, A. M. (2020, July). Tonogenesis in Afrikaans: Age and gender differences in cue weighting. Poster presented at LabPhon 17, held virtually.

Pfiffner, A. M. (2020, May). Centralized vowels in Nobiin: A Dispersion Theoretic analysis. Paper was to be presented at the 51st Annual Conference on African Linguistics, which was cancelled due to COVID-19.

Pfiffner, A. M. (2020, May). Demographic differences in word-final incomplete neutralization in Afrikaans. Poster was to be presented at the 179th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, which was cancelled due to COVID-19.

Pfiffner, A. M. (2019, January). Word-final obstruent devoicing in Minnesota: Patterns in gradient neutralization. Poster presented at the American Dialect Society Annual Meeting 2019, New York, NY.

Pfiffner, A. M. (2018, May). Perceptual assimilation and orthographic effects in L2 allophonic acquisition. Poster presented at the 26thManchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, England.

Pfiffner, A. M. (2017, November). Statistical tracking and generalization: Dual strategies in bidialectal acquisition. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 46, Madison, WI.