Welcome!
I am 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 (fall 2025):
- Teaching linguistics at Aarhus University and the University of Copenhagen
- Editor-in-chief of Journal of Language Works, a journal accepting articles from students working with language
- Writing 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.
- At the moment, I am collaborating on articles and projects with Miša Hejná, Kirstine Boas, and Yonatan Goldshtein.
- Beginning in February 2026, I will start work on the tonal stress-group patterns of Jutlandic, for which I have received funding from Ulla og Børge Andersens fond for sprogvidenskabelig forskning.

Get in touch at hej@annakai.dk