About
Maria Evjen is a Doctoral Research Fellow and PhD candidate in Scandinavian Linguistics at the University of Oslo, affiliated with the Faculty of Humanities. Her research focuses on experimental methods to study acoustic properties of Norwegian speech sounds and the role of perception in sound change. She holds a Master's degree in Linguistics from the University of Oslo (2021) and a Master of Arts in Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh (2019).
- Education:
- Master's in Linguistics, UiO (2021)
- MA in Linguistics, University of Edinburgh (2019)
Her research interests center on phonetics, phonology, and language evolution. She has contributed to projects at the Norwegian Language Bank (National Library of Norway) and the Text Laboratory at UiO, focusing on transcription and transliteration. Maria’s work emphasizes experimental approaches to understanding linguistic phenomena, particularly in Norwegian.
Labs/Teams: Collaborates with the Text Laboratory (UiO) and the Norwegian Language Bank.
