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Articles

• Miller, Jessica (in press). "Prosodic style-shifting as audience design: real-time monitoring of pitch range and contour types in Swiss French". Kate Beeching, Nigel Armstrong, Raymond Mougeon, Françoise Gadet and Jeanine Treffers-Daller (eds). Variations, variétés: Aspects of sociolinguistic variation in contemporary French, John Benjamins.

• Miller, Jessica (2008). “Tonal Alignment Distinctions Between Standard French and Vaudois Swiss French”. Rudolph Sock, Susanne Fuchs, Yves Laprie (eds). Proceedings of the 8th International Seminar on Speech Production 2008. Strasbourg: 229-232.

• Miller, Jessica and Zsuzsanna Fagyal (2005). "Phonetic cues to common and special cases of liaison : looking for a prosodic domain". Randall S. Gess and Edward J. Rubin (eds.). Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics. Selected papers from the 34th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Salt Lake City, March 2004. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 179-196.

• Miller, Jessica and Zsuzsanna Fagyal (2003). "La valeur marchande des anglicismes". Contemporary French Civilization . Vol. XXVII(1): 129-51.

• Sertling, Jessica (2001). "Qui diable est le démon d'Oniphrius". Bulletin de la Société Théophile Gautier . Vol. 23: 217-221.


Conference presentations (not published)

• “Teaching French Pronunciation in a College-Level Beginner French Course: Can Phonetics Help Learners?”. Paper presented at the AAAL Conference (Denver, Colorado, March 2009).

• “Swiss French Prosody: Discovering Intonational Features in the Vaud Canton across Contextual Styles”. Paper presented at the M/MLA Annual Convention (Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 2008).

• “Phonetics: a pedagogical tool in a college-level beginner French course”. Poster presented with Caryn Drewiske at Research Day (UW-Eau Claire, April 2008).

• “Tonal alignment distinctions between standard French and Vaudois Swiss French”. Paper presented at the Linguistic Symposium in Romance Languages – LSRL 38 (Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, April 2008).

• “Configurations tonales de fin de phrase en français vaudois”. Paper presented at the Journées PFC 2007 – Phonologie du Français Contemporain (Paris, France, December 2007)

•“Prosodic style shifting as audience design: real-time monitoring of pitch range and contour types in Swiss French”. Paper presented at the Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology – MCWOP 13 (Columbus, Ohio, October 2007)

•"Chansons populaires in René Clair's Sous les toits de Paris". Paper presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (Chicago, Illinois, March 2007).

•"Valeurs marchandes des anglicismes : images symboliques de modernité, de nouveauté et de désir" (co-author : Zsuzsanna Fagyal). Paper presented at Diversity and Difference in France and the Francophone World (Tallahassee, Florida, April 2004).

•"Phonetic cues to common and special cases of liaison: looking for a prosodic domain". Paper presented at the Linguistic Symposium in Romance Languages - LSRL 34 (Salt Lake City, Utah, March 2004).

•"Does 'lion' and 'Lions!' sound the same to you? Claims and data on gliding in French". Project presented with a research group from a French phonetics class (French 313) at the UIUC Weekly Linguistic Seminar (December 2003).

•"Liaison as an extrametrical process: common cases of liaison, and liaison without enchaînement". Paper presented at the Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology (Urbana, Illinois, October 2003).

•"Moderato Cantabile de Duras et Tous les matins du monde de Quignard: La musique dans tous ses états". Paper presented at the Midwest Modern Languages Association - MMLA (Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 2002).

•"Le diable d'Oniphrius". Paper presented at the Colloque de la Société Théophile Gautier (Montpellier, France, June 2001).

•"A painting of Paris". Paper presented at the Graduate Symposium at St. Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri, April 2001).

•"Monsieur Vénus , roman contre-nature?". Paper presented at the Missouri Philological Association (Fulton, Missouri, March 2001).