Nina Grønnum (; born March 1st, 1945 in Copenhagen) is a Danish retired

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and associate professor emeritus from the

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. She is best known for her work on the pronunciation of Danish and especially her many studies on Danish intonation and prosody. She went by her married name Nina Thorsen or Nina Grønnum Thorsen until the 1980s. She is included in Krak's Blue Book and the

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since 2003, and has been a fellow of The Society of Sciences in Lund member of the Council of the

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and vice institute leader of Institute of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen. She has been on the editorial boards of '' Acta Linguistica Hafniensia'', the ''

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'' and ''

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''.

Biography

In 1972, she majored in

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from the

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, and the dr.phil degree in 1992 on the basis of her ''Groundworks of Danish intonation''

Selected publications

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Nina Grønnum
– University of Copenhagen
Nina Grønnum
- Personal website Living people Linguists from Denmark University of Copenhagen alumni 1945 births Women linguists Linguists of Danish Members of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters Phoneticians {{Denmark-linguist-stub