Hello! I’m Alexandra Pfiffner, an Assistant Professor in linguistics at the University of Georgia. 

My research interests center on the interface between phonetics and phonology, in particular, understanding how acoustic and auditory cues can explain phonological patterns and sound change over time. I carry out speech production and perception experiments, use their results to develop theoretical models, and then computationally test the models. 

Recent news!

1. I have changed institutions! After four incredible years as a Lecturer at UC Berkeley, I’ve accepted a new position at the University of Georgia.

2. Baichen Du and I just published our audiovisual production experiment on the Mandarin sibilant contrast in Laboratory Phonology. You can read it open access here.

3. Kai Schenck and I published our joint work examining phonological inventories with PHOIBLE in the Proceedings of the LSA. You can check it out here.

4. Keith Johnson and I presented the latest update on our Voices of Oakland (California English) audiovisual corpus at the ASA, this time examining interdental tongue protrusion.