Brief CV

MA Phonetics (UCL), Cand.Mag. English Studies (Copenhagen), PhD (Cantab) – for my full CV, see this page.

Edited volume

• Nyvad, Hejná, Højen, Jespersen & Sørensen (2019). A Sound Approach to Language Matters: in honor of Ocke-Schwen Bohn. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.

Book chapter

• Hejná & Jespersen (2019). Focus on consonants: prosodic prominence and the fortis-lenis contrast in English dialects. In Nyvad, Hejná, Højen, Jespersen & Sørensen (Eds.) A Sound Approach to Language Matters: in honor of Ocke-Schwen Bohn. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 237-270.

Journal articles

• Hejná & Jespersen (2022). Ageing well: social, but also biological, reasons for age grading. Language and Linguistics Compass.
• Hejná & Jespersen (2021). The coming of age: teasing apart the chronological, the social, and the biological. Language & Linguistics Compass, 15(1), 1–21. DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.12404.
•  Jespersen & Hejná (2021) Second language learners of Danish as the linguistic other. Otherness: Essays and Studies, 8(3), 129-159.
• Hejná, Borkfelt, Eaton, Christensen, Clasen, Fage-Butler, Jespersen, Jacobsen,  Kjeldgaard-Christiansen, Schjoldager, Stephan, Sørensen (2019). Interdisciplinary: To Be or Not to Be? Working Across Disciplinary Boundaries in the Humanities (and Beyond). In Leviathan: Interdisciplinary Journal in English, 5, 1–12.
• (Second review round – Jespersen & Hejná) Age as a constructed social category and a biological fact: exploring age categorisations in Tyneside English. Submitted to Journal of Sociolinguistics.
• (Second review round – Hejná,  Jespersen & Sencindiver) The sexual rules of ageing: Madonna queering age and voice. Submitted to English Language and Linguistics.

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• (Manuscript complete): Acoustic, pragmatic and sociolinguistic cues to the distinction between uptalk and other declarative rises. To be submitted to Phonetica.
• (Manuscript complete): Can intonation index ethnicity? Uptalk in Australian Aboriginal English. To be submitted to Linguistics Vanguard.
• (In preparation): Did Otto Jespersen Create the First Modern English Pronouncing Dictionary? To be submitted to Journal of the International Phonetic Association.

Peer-reviewed conference proceedings

• Jespersen & Hejná (2021) Hvordan får vi danskerne til at tale dansk med os? En analyse af sprogskift i interaktioner mellem danskere og udlændinge. MUDS –Møderne om Udforskningen af Dansk Sprog.
• Jespersen, Šturm & Hejná (2021) On the feasibility of the Danish model of intonational transcription: phonetic evidence from Jutlandic Danish. Proceedings of Interspeech 2021, 2611-2615, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2021-190
• Jespersen (2019). All rise? The perception of falls, plateaux and simple rises in Belfast English. In S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain, & P. Warren (red.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 869-873). Canberra: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.
• Jespersen & Hejná (2019). Rødgrød med fløde? Hvilke aspekter af det danske sprog kæmper andetsprogstalere med? In Y. Goldshtein, I. S. Hansen, & T. T. Hougaard (red.), 17. Møde om Udforskningen af Dansk Sprog (s. 311-327). Aarhus: Institut for Kommunikation og Kultur, Aarhus Universitet. MUDS – Møderne om Udforskningen af Dansk Sprog.
• Jespersen (2018). Innovations in the stylistic variation of nuclear tunes in Belfast English, Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2018, 527-531.
• Jespersen (2016). A first look at declarative rises as markers of ethnicity in Sydney. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2016, 143-147. Awarded an IPA Student Award.
• Leemann, Kolly, Li, Chan, Kwek, Jespersen (2016). Towards a typology of prominence perception: the role of duration. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2016, 445-449.
• Jespersen (2015). Intonational rises and interaction structure in Sydney Aboriginal English. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow: University of Glasgow. Awarded an IPA Student Award.

Summary of teaching experience

• Spring 2022: English as an International Language. MA course, University of Aarhus.
• Autumn 2021: EL1 English phonetics and phonology, 1st year BA course, University of Aarhus.
• Spring 2021: EL2 The History of English. 1st year BA course. University of Aarhus.
• Spring 2021: English as an International Language, MA minor course at Business Communication (co-taught), University of Aarhus.
• Spring 2019, 2020, 2021: EL3 Sociolinguistics, 1st year BA course (co-taught), University of Aarhus.
• Autumn 2018: Disciplinary Perspectives, MA minor course (co-taught), University of Aarhus.
• Spring 2017: English and Globalisation, 3rd year BA minor course, University of Aarhus.
• Autumn 2016: Experimental Sociophonetics, MA course, University of Aarhus.
• Autumn 2016: EL1 English phonetics and phonology, 1st year BA course, University of Aarhus.
• 2014–2016: Li6 Phonetics, 3rd year undergraduate/MA-level course + lecture, University of Cambridge.
• October 2014 and 2015: Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology for MML 2. 1st year undergraduate lecture, University of Cambridge.
• 2013–2014: Li1 Sounds and Words, 1st year undergraduate course, University of Cambridge.
• 2013–2014: L3 Language, Brain and Society, 1st year undergraduate course, University of Cambridge.
• Spring 2012: English Grammar and Communication. Sessional teaching assistant, 2nd year BA course, University of Copenhagen
• Spring 2009: English Phonetics. Sessional teaching assistant, 1st year BA course, University of Copenhagen.

Report

2021 [Jespersen & Hejná] Vokalhelvedet: hvor svær er dansk udtale, og hvordan undervises der i udtale for andetsprogstalere? [Vowel Hell: how difficult is Danish pronunciation, and how is it taught in second language classes?] Aarhus: Aarhus University Library. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.427.