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Liisa Mustanoja is a Senior Lecturer at Tampere University's Language Studies Plural, a multidisciplinary research center focusing on languages and cultures. She holds a Doctoral degree from Tampere University (2011) and has maintained an active research career since 2003.
Her research primarily focuses on sociolinguistics, Finnish dialectology, and speech variation. Key areas include phonetic change in Finnish dialects, historical language documentation through wartime correspondence, and computational modeling of language variation. She has contributed significantly to understanding urban dialect dynamics in Helsinki and Tampere through longitudinal studies.
Mustanoja's work bridges theoretical linguistics with applied research, including projects on affective speech processing and language equity. She has collaborated with institutions such as the University of Oulu and the Finnish Literary Society (SKS). Her research methods include fieldwork, corpus analysis, and statistical modeling.
She has published 38 research outputs across peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and edited volumes, with notable contributions in Virittäjä, Language Variation and Change, and Sananjalka. Though specific awards are not detailed, her extensive publication record and editorial roles indicate recognition in her field.
Her current research emphasizes language change mechanisms, digital humanities applications in dialectology, and societal impacts of linguistic variation.
