Nina Grønnum (; born March 1st, 1945 in Copenhagen
) is a
Danish
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retired
phonetician
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and associate professor emeritus from the
University of Copenhagen
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. She is best known for her work on the
pronunciation of Danish and especially her many studies on Danish
intonation and prosody. She went by her married name Nina Thorsen or Nina Grønnum Thorsen until the 1980s.
She is included in
Krak's Blue Book and the
Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
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, native_name = Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab
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since 2003, and has been a fellow of
The Society of Sciences in Lund The New Society of Letters at Lund (''Vetenskapssocieteten i Lund'' in Swedish) is a scientific academy founded in 1920. The purpose of the foundation was "to promote scientific humanities research", to which younger scientists in the humanities, th ...
[ member of the Council of the ]International Phonetic Association
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and vice institute leader of Institute of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen.
She has been on the editorial boards of '' Acta Linguistica Hafniensia'', the '' Journal of the International Phonetic Association'' and ''Nordic Journal of Linguistics
The ''Nordic Journal of Linguistics'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal concerned with all branches of linguistics, but paying particular attention to theoretical linguistics and languages used in the Nordic countries. It was established in 19 ...
''.[
]
Biography
In 1972, she majored in phonetics
Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds, or in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Linguists who specialize in studying the physical properties of speech are phoneticians. ...
from the University of Copenhagen
The University of Copenhagen ( da, Københavns Universitet, KU) is a prestigious public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in ...
and was assistant professor there from 1972-76 and then associate professor (from 1993 with special qualifications) until 2008 where she retired. She received the equivalent of a PhD in 1981,[ and the dr.phil degree in 1992 on the basis of her ''Groundworks of Danish intonation'']
Selected publications
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References
External links
Nina Grønnum
– University of Copenhagen
Nina Grønnum
- Personal website
Living people
Linguists from Denmark
University of Copenhagen alumni
1945 births
Women linguists
Linguists of Danish
Members of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
Phoneticians
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