Invited Presentations

Rosen, N. & Pfiffner, A. (2025, June). Social meaning in Manitoba: Expressing hardiness, self-reliance, and survival through consonant variation. Keynote address at the 14th annual Change and Variation in Canada workshop. Edmonton, Alberta.

Pfiffner, A. (2024, October). An audiovisual phonetic analysis of the Mandarin sibilant merger. Presented at the University of Manitoba.

Pfiffner, A. (2024, May). Quantifying and accounting for visual articulatory cues in sound change. Presented at P-interest at Stanford University.

Pfiffner, A. (2024, March). The role of phonetic cues in contrast & change over time. Presented at the University of Alberta.

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

Pfiffner, A. (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.

Conference Presentations

Rosen, N. & Pfiffner, A. (2025, June). Phonetic correlates of a Prairies orientation. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Montreal, Canada.

Johnson, K. & Pfiffner, A. (2025, May). Acoustic and visual properties of vowels in Oakland CA: Preliminary results. Poster presented at the 188th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Pfiffner, A. & Johnson, K. (2025, May). Implementing a “Cue-based Features” approach to the phonetics/phonology interface. Poster presented at the 188th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Pfiffner, A., *Hatch, L, & **Russell, K. R. (2025, January). Acoustics and aerodynamics of Nghlwa implosives. Paper presented at the 2025 LSA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

*Hatch, L., **Russell, K. R., & Pfiffner, A. (2024, May). Phonetic and phonological characteristics of bilabial stops in the Potou languages. Paper 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.