Welcome!
I am trained sociophonetician interested in language as a social phenomenon. While my work may be focused on the small-scale adaptations people make in conversation, the underlying questions that interest me are: How do people use their voices and variations in pronunciation to relate to one another and to signal who they are? What does a person’s way of speaking mean for how they are perceived by others?
With the precarious life of a young academic comes the need for keeping track of everything in one place that is not a university IT system. This is my personal hub for collecting my work, sharing resources (such as the map task I developed for my PhD research) and writing about things that interest me. This page contains an overview of my most recent work and whereabouts.
Current ACTIVIties (SPRING 2026):
- Researching the tonal stress-group patterns of Jutlandic, for which I have received funding from Ulla og Børge Andersens fond for Sprogvidenskabelig Forskning.
- Editor-in-chief of Journal of Language Works, a journal accepting articles from students working with language
- Awaiting review of my chapter for a book on the findings from the project Speaking Up: Language as a Factor for Social Mobility in Denmark, with Pia Quist, Nicolai Pharao, and Astrid Ag.
- Collecting data for a survey on gender-neutral pronouns in Danish. Please fill it out if you’re a Danish speaker using gender-neutral pronouns:

Get in touch at hej@annakai.dk