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Nina Grønnum (Danish: [ˈninæ ˈkʁɶnɔm]; born March 1st, 1945 in Copenhagen[1]) is a Danish retired phonetician and associate professor emeritus from the University of Copenhagen. She is best known for her work on the pronunciation of Danish[2] and especially her many studies on Danish intonation and prosody.[3][4] She went by her married name Nina Thorsen or Nina Grønnum Thorsen until the 1980s.[5]

She is included in Krak's Blue Book[1] and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters since 2003,[6] and has been a fellow of The Society of Sciences in Lund[7] member of the Council of the International Phonetic Association and vice institute leader of Institute of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen.[8]

She has been on the editorial boards of Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, the Journal of the International Phonetic Association[7] and Nordic Journal of Linguistics.[8]

Biography

In 1972, she majored in phonetics from the University of Copenhagen 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,[1] and the dr.phil degree in 1992 on the basis of her Groundworks of Danish intonation[9]

Selected publications

Books

• Grønnum, Nina (1992), The groundworks of Danish intonation, Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, ISBN 978-8772891699
• Grønnum, Nina; Rischel, Jørgen, eds. (2001), To Honour Eli Fischer-Jørgensen: festschrift on the occasion of her 90th birthday February 11th, 2001, Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague, Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, ISBN 8778762138
• Grønnum, Nina (2005), Fonetik og fonologi, Almen og Dansk (in Danish) (3rd ed.), Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag, ISBN 87-500-3865-6
• Grønnum, Nina (2007), Rødgrød med fløde – En lille bog om dansk fonetik (in Danish), Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag, ISBN 978-87-500-3918-1
• Rischel, Jørgen (2008), Grønnum, Nina; Gregersen, Frans; Basbøll, Hans (eds.), Sound Structure in Language, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199544349

Papers

• Grønnum, Nina (1998a), "Illustrations of the IPA: Danish", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 28 (1 & 2): 99–105, doi:10.1017/s0025100300006290
• Grønnum, Nina (1998b), "Intonation in Danish", in Hirst, Daniel; Cristo, Albert Di (eds.), Intonation Systems, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 131–151, ISBN 9780521395137

References

External links

• Nina Grønnum – University of Copenhagen
• Nina Grønnum - Personal website

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