Publications
13
Publications
7
Journals
5
Book chapters
1
Dissertation
2026
Linguistic diversity in machine learning training data: Content analysis of English and Finnish soundscape descriptions in audio captioning
PloS One, 21(6).
Journal
Open access
2025
Englanti ja suomi osallisuuden kielinä: mitä se tarkoittaa eri ihmisille / English and Finnish as languages of participation: what it means for different people
Kieli, koulutus ja yhteiskunta, 16(7).
Journal
Open access
2024
Language-based machine perception: linguistic perspectives on the compilation of captioning datasets
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 39(3): 864-883.
Journal
Open access
The communicative functions of 3rd person singular pronouns: Cisgender and transgender perspectives
In Nevala, Minna & Palander-Collin, Minna (eds.). Self- and other-references in social contexts: From global to local discourses. John Benjamins Publishing.
2023
First-person verbal aggression in YouTube comments on sexism
In Ermida, Isabel (ed.). NetLang: The Language of Cyberbullying: Forms and Mechanisms of Online Prejudice and Discrimination. Palgrave Macmillan.
Book chapter
AAM copy
2022
A thematic analysis of attitudes towards nonbinary pronouns
Journal of Language and Sexuality, 11(2), 190–216.
Journal
AAM copy
Finnishness, Whiteness and Coloniality: An Introduction
In Finnishness, Whiteness and Coloniality, 1–16. Helsinki University Press.
Book chapter
Open access
Are gender neutral pronouns really neutral? Testing a male bias in the grammatical genderless language Turkish and Finnish
Journal of Language and Social Psychology.
Journal
Open access
2021
Lectio praecursoria. Generic and Nonbinary Pronouns: Usage, Acceptability and Attitudes
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 121(2), 498–509.
Journal
Pronominit tasa-arvon asialla [Paving the way for equality with pronouns]
Tempus, (2). Magazine for language teachers in Finland.
Journal
Open access
2020
Generic and nonbinary pronouns: Usage, acceptability and attitudes
Doctoral dissertation, University of Helsinki.
Dissertation
Open access
Invited Talks
6
Invited talks
4
Countries
1
Keynotes
2023
Gender in Finnish: Perspectives from linguistics and translation studies
First International Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies, Tampere University.
Shared keynote with Anna Merikallio.
Gender exclusive and inclusive language in Finnish
International Conference on Gender-Inclusive Language Instruction, University of Southern California.
2022
Englannin pronominien merkityksestä: Transsukupuolisten kokemuksia [The importance of pronouns: Trans experiences]
Moninaisuuden ääni, University of Turku, Centre for the Study of Language and Wellbeing.
Seminar on gender diversity.
2021
English pronouns: Opponents and proponents of change
Gender Fair Language Seminar, University of Stockholm.
Sukupuolittunut kieli: onko nainenkin puhemies?
Feminist organization Zonta I, Tampere division.
2019
Is English ready for new pronouns? Nonbinary pronouns: usage, acceptability and attitudes
University of Greifswald.
Selected conference presentations
17
Presentations
6
Countries
6
Years
2024
Encoding auditory perception in language: New insights from speakers with visual disability
57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Identity discourse in The Reddit LGBTQ+ Corpus
Lavender Languages, University of Brighton, UK.
Attitudes towards English in Finland
Finsse 11, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Gender exclusive and inclusive language in Finnish: Explaining use of masculine job titles
Language and Gender: Research and Desiderata, Queen Mary University of London, UK.
Sosiokognitiivisia näkökulmia kieliperustaiseen koneaistimiseen
50th Finnish Conference of Linguistics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Poster
LAIF-hanke esittäytyy
50th Finnish Conference of Linguistics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
2023
Exploring the identify as Construction in The Reddit LGBTQ+ Corpus
Gender, Language and Sexuality: theoretical and methodological perspectives, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Transgender and Cisgender Perspectives on 3rd Person Singular Pronouns in English: Exploring Communicative Functions
Challenging the Binary, University College London, UK.
Sukupuolisyrjivä kielenkäyttö ja kieliasenteet suomen kielessä – alustavia tuloksia
Finnish Conference of Linguistics XLIX, University of Oulu, Finland.
Miten tekoälyä koulutetaan? Havaintoja kuvaustekstien tuottamisesta
Finnish Conference of Linguistics XLIX, University of Oulu, Finland.
2022
Gender exclusive and inclusive language in Finnish: Usage and attitudes
Attitudes towards gender-inclusive language. A Multinational perspective, Queen Mary University of London, UK (remote).
Sukupuolisyrjivä kielenkäyttö ja kieliasenteet suomen kielessä
Queer Tentacles Seminar, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Sukupuolisyrjivän kielenkäytön asenneasteikko [A Likert scale for attitudes towards gender exclusive language in Finnish]
Finnish Conference of Linguistics XLVIII, University of Turku, Finland.
Exploring emerging patterns of self-identification in the LGBTQ+ Reddit Corpus
ICAME 43, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.
2021
Ideologically motivated language change: pronoun edition
Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE6), University of Eastern Finland (remote).
The importance of pronouns: nonbinary perspectives
11th Conference of the International Gender and Language Association, Queen Mary University of London (remote).
2019
The importance of nonbinary pronouns: personal experiences and attitudes
Lavender Languages and Linguistics 26, University of Göteborg, Sweden.
Organized events
Chair of the organizing committee for the workshop Kieli, yhteiskunta, sukupuoli ja seksuaalisuus, at the 50th Finnish Conference of Linguistics, University of Jyväskylä, 2024.
Member of the organizing committee for the conference Language, Gender and Sexuality: theoretical and methodological perspectives, University of Helsinki, 2023.