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Anita Berit Hansen is an Associate Professor in French at the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on phonetic variation and change in Parisian French, examining mechanisms of sound shifts, social and stylistic variation, and language attitudes. She specializes in quantitative variationistic sociolinguistics and works with real-time data (1989-2015) to analyze phenomena like vowel stabilization (e.g., /A/ and schwa), nasal vowels, consonant cluster reduction, palatalization, and syntactic/lexical variation.
- Current Research: Phonetic variation in Parisian French, including 'real time' analysis and social factors.
- Teaching Areas: French language, sociolinguistics, phonetics.
Her research output includes 55 publications, with recent works addressing diasystematic variation, sociophonetic studies, and language policy in the Francophone world. She has participated in numerous conferences and workshops, including organizing the 2021 Linguistic Variation in European Languages conference.
- Scientific Awards: Carsbergfondet monografistipendium 'Semper Ardens' (2017), Einar Hansens Legat (2005).
- Activities: 167 recorded engagements, including lectures on Montreal corpus data (2022), linguistic variation workshops (2021), and media appearances (2017).
Hansen's methodological expertise includes gathering spoken data, perception experiments, and analyzing language contact effects. She also explores regional French varieties (Québécois, African French), language death, and French in new media (chat, SMS).
