Hello and welcome. I’m an Associate Professor in the English Language at the Department of English at Aarhus University, Denmark. You can access my AU profile here. I currently coordinate the Centre of Voice Studies at Aarhus University. You can contact me at misa.hejna[at]cc.au.dk.
My research interests lie in the areas of language variation and change, sociolinguistics, phonetics (and phonology), and interdisciplinarity. More specifically, I’m very much interested in voice quality and interdisciplinary approaches to voice studies. I have done work in the following areas (some much more than others):
- biological and social constraints on phonetic variation
- ageing and phonetic variation
- typological phonetics and phonological contrasts
- pre-aspiration is my life-long love (as tend to be obstruents more generally)
- vocal attractiveness and voice quality
- phonetic construction of personae and affect / voice quality in the media
- English accents (and Welsh English most often)
- Czech, Danish, Halh Mongolian, Welsh
- pedagogy of phonetics
- sociopragmatic aspects of non-L1 acquisition
ORCID: 0000-0002-9328-2603
“Oh, I had changed all right. Everybody changes. Change is ordained. Changes must come.” Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King.
Míša Hejná [ˈmiːʃa ˈɦɛɪnaː] 