

Liisa Mustanoja
About me
PhD, Title of Docent (Finnish)
Publications in research portal TUNICris
Kone Foundation grant 2024-2027 Tunteiden Tampere
Research of wartime letters in collaboration with students
Developer of the "Data Protection Passport" concept
Senior scholar in CONVERGENCE of Humans and Machines
Member of Sumu research group:
- Sulka: Suomen lauseet keskipitkällä aikavälillä (Kone Foundation 2023–2026)
- Kippo: Kielellisten populaatioiden muutos ajassa (Kone Foundation 2017–2022)
Main positions of trust
Head of Unit, Languages, Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Scineces, 2024->
Head of the Doctoral Programme in Language Studies (DPLA), 2022-2023
Member of the Ethics committee of the Tampere Region (non-medical research), 2020-2023
Member of the executive team of Langnet - a network for doctoral programmes in language studies, 2022-2023
Director of Plural (Multidisciplinary Research Centre for Languages and Cultures) 2017-2019
Research fields
Sociolinguistics, sociophonetics, Finnish dialects, Finnish language in change, wartime letters
Latest publications
FinnAffect: An Affective Speech Corpus for Spontaneous Finnish
Lahtinen, K., Mustanoja, L. & Räsänen, O., Nov 2025, In: Speech Communication. 175, 103327.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Introducing the FinnAffect corpus
Lahtinen, K., Mustanoja, L. & Räsänen, O., 25 Apr 2025.Research output: Other conference contribution › Scientific
Investigating Affect Mining Techniques for Annotation Sample Selection in the Creation of Finnish Affective Speech Corpus
Lahtinen, K., Vaaras, E., Mustanoja, L. & Räsänen, O., 2025, Interspeech 2025: Proceedings of the International conference on spoken language processing. International Speech Communication Association ISCA, p. 3958-3962 (Interspeech).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
Kymmenen havaintoa syrjimättömästä kielestä
Valtasalmi, I., Siltaloppi, S., Wacklin, V. & Mustanoja, L., 13 Mar 2025, Kieli ja kirjallisuus muuttuvassa yhteiskunnassa. Jänis, K. & Salminen, I. (eds.). Äidinkielen opettajain liitto, p. 99-129 (Äidinkielen opettajain liiton vuosikirja; no. 2025).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Professional
Building a Naturalistic and Representative Affective Speech Corpus for the Finnish Language
Lahtinen, K., Mustanoja, L. & Räsänen, O., Apr 2024, p. 1-1. 1 p.Research output: Other conference contribution › Abstract › Scientific
Creak Rate Variation in Individual Speakers of Finnish
ODell, M., Nieminen, T. & Mustanoja, L., 2023, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of Nordic Prosody. Niebuhr, O. (ed.). Sciendo, p. 61-70Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
Human and Machine Perception of Affect in Speech
Lahtinen, K., Mustanoja, L., Simko, J. & Räsänen, O., Oct 2023, p. 1-5. 5 p.Research output: Other conference contribution › Poster › Scientific
Helsinkiläis- ja tamperelaispuhujien äänenkorkeuden muutokset 1970-luvulta 2010-luvulle
Mustanoja, L., O'Dell, M. & Lappalainen, H., 2022, In: Puhe ja kieli. 42, 2, p. 121-148Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Kaija Kuiri 1950-2020
Mustanoja, L. & Tervola, M., 2022, In: Virittäjä. 126, 3, p. 453-456Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific
Katomuotojen eteneminen hd-yhtymässä Helsingin puhekielessä
Kuparinen, O., Santaharju, J., Leino, U., Mustanoja, L. & Peltonen, J., 2022, In: Virittäjä. 126, 3Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review