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Piia Taremaa<\/h2>\n\n
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Piia Taremaa is a research fellow at the Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, University of Tartu. She defended her PhD thesis in linguistics at the University of Tartu in 2017. Situating herself in the framework of cognitive linguistics, her research interests include semantics, morphosyntax and constructional variation. She has a particular interest in the expression of space and motion, and she is also interested in reference, spoken language perception and academic writing. In her studies, she applies corpus and experimental methods, and combines quantitative research methods with qualitative ones.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Ann Veismann<\/h2>\n\n
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Ann Veismann is an Associate Professor in Estonian language and general linguistics. Her background lies in cognitive and functional linguistics. Her main research interest is the semantics and usage of grams (adpositions, particles) and more broadly the interconnections between grammar and semantics. She has also been interested in time and space vocabulary in Estonian, conceptual metaphor theory and spatial frames of reference. In addition to qualitative and quantitative corpus studies she is keen on experimental semantics (e.g. forced choice tasks and acceptability ratings).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Len Toots<\/h2>\n\n
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Len is a PhD student at the University of Tartu\u2019s Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics. Len has been involved in the KirKe project since its preliminary stages in 2021, when the project\u2019s activities began with the support of a one-year bridging grant from the Estonian Research Council. Len collects and annotates corpus data, conducts experiments, assists with technical matters, and participates in discussions. Areas of interest include usage-based linguistics, as well as experimental and corpus methods.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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K\u00e4rolin Veerpalu<\/h2>\n\n
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K\u00e4rolin received her MA degree from the University of Tartu\u2019s Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures, specialising in the English language. Currently, she is a PhD student at the University of Tartu\u2019s Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics. She has been involved with the KirKe project since April 2024 where she mainly annotates corpus data. Her research focuses on phonetics and studying the pronunciation of Estonian learners of English.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Annaliis Tenisson<\/h2>\n\n
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Annaliis is a PhD student of Estonian and General Linguistics at the University of Tartu and has been involved in the KirKe project since 2024. So far, she has primarily worked on annotating corpus data. Annaliis is interested in semantics and pragmatics, that is, how people create meaning through language in different situations.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Triin Aasa<\/h2>\n\n
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Triin is a PhD student of Estonian and General Linguistics at the University of Tartu. Her thesis focuses on the intensification of adjectives \u2013 combinations such as \u2018very beautiful\u2019, \u2018really nice\u2019, \u2018relatively good\u2019, \u2018a bit sad\u2019. As part of the KirKe project, she also analyses intensification. Her background is primarily in corpus-based research.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Nele Ots<\/h2>\n\n
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Nele Ots is currently a lecturer at the Institute of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Stuttgart, where she teaches advanced courses on English phonology, including intonation and the phonetics and phonology of English varieties. She also has teaching experience in the psycholinguistic study of language, covering topics such as reading and sentence comprehension, working memory, and language production.\r\nHer research focuses on the cognitive processes underlying sentence planning, with a particular emphasis on intonation and flexible word-order languages. Nele investigates spontaneously spoken speech, using acoustic analysis and psycholinguistic research methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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K\u00e4rt Room\u00e4e<\/h2>\n\n
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K\u00e4rt is a usage-based linguist whose studies have focused on English and, to a lesser extent, French. She is fascinated by the structure of spoken language, informal language use in podcasts in particular. Her doctoral thesis defended at the University of Birmingham, UK in 2025 investigated nonstandard linguistic structures on the level of discourse and their usage patterns on the example of subordinate clauses that function as main clauses. K\u00e4rt is open to both quantitative and qualitative methods, valuing their complementarity.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ly Kaasik<\/h2>\n\n
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Ly is a PhD student in General Linguistics at the University of Tartu. In her doctoral research, she investigates vertical metaphors in Estonian, as found in expressions such as \u2018the mood drops\u2019 and \u2018one\u2019s heart rises to one\u2019s throat\u2019. She is also interested in metaphors and figurative language more broadly. She finds it fascinating to explore how people use metaphors to describe the world and human experience, and to make complex phenomena and processes more understandable to themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Valuable assistance in the earlier stages of the project was provided by:<\/p>\n\n

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  • Kim W\u00fcthrich<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Johanna Kiik<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Anton Malmi<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Carolin Joonasson<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Marge Lainesaar<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Kerstin H\u00fcdse<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Mihkel R\u00fcnkla<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Kristiina Vaik<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Anu Kadri Uustalu<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Jiawen Hu<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Nele Karolin Teiva<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Hanna Pook<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Agnes Lea<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

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    Consultants:<\/p>\n\n

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    • Anetta Kopecka (Associate Professor, Dynamique du Langage Laboratory, CNRS & University of Lyon)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Laura Speed (Associate Professor, Radboud University, Centre for Language Studies, Department of Language and Communication)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Kairi Kreegipuu (Associate Professor of Experimental Psychology, University of Tartu)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Jane Padrik (Associate Professor of English Language, College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, University of Tartu)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Kaidi L\u00f5o (Research Fellow in Psycholinguistics, Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, University of Tartu)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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