Jenni Santaharju
jenni.santaharju@utu.fi +358 29 450 3102 +358 50 356 6106 Assistentinkatu 7 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3650-2048 |
Areas of expertise
Evolutionary ecology, Language evolution, Genetic evolution, Speciation, Social linguistics, Finnish dialects, Uralic languages, Helsinki Finnish, Quantitative methods, Speaker populations, Population genetics, Phylogenetics, Phylogeography, Landscape studies, Spatial methods
Evolutionary ecology, Language evolution, Genetic evolution, Speciation, Social linguistics, Finnish dialects, Uralic languages, Helsinki Finnish, Quantitative methods, Speaker populations, Population genetics, Phylogenetics, Phylogeography, Landscape studies, Spatial methods
Research community or research topic
Human diversity
Human diversity
Biography
I am an evolutionary biologist fascinated by genetic, linguistic and cultural diversity. My interests concern
- What has caused the areal variation that we can see today in human populations?
- What has driven or inhibited populations differentiation or contacts?
- What does the contemporary variation tell us about the human past?
Publications 
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- Data release: Digitized Dialect Atlas of Finnish by Lauri Kettunen (2025)
- Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications
(Poster) - Kielen syntaktinen variaatio ja muutos Kotiliesi-lehden henkilöhaastatteluissa 1963–2022 (2025)
- Sananjalka
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The Uralic Trove (UraLaari) – The digital data infrastructure of speaker areas of Uralic languages and Finnish dialects (2025)
- Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Linguistic convergence and its drivers in Finnish dialects (2024) Santaharju, Jenni; Honkola, Terhi; Syrjänen, Kaj; Seppä, Perttu; Leino, Unni; Vesakoski, Outi
(Abstract) - Tieteen matkamiehen siivellä – Lauri Kettusen Suomen murteet tutkimusaineistona ennen ja nyt (2024) Saarte keeled. Ellen Niidi juubeliraamat Vesakoski, Outi; Aarikka, Lotta; Santaharju, Jenni
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Katomuotojen eteneminen yleiskielen hd-yhtymässä Helsingin puhekielessä (2022)
- Virittäjä
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Miksi kato leviää? (2022)
- Sananjalka
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Lects in Helsinki Finnish-a probabilistic component modeling approach (2021)
- Language Variation and Change
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Clustering Lexical Variation of Finnic Languages Based on Atlas Linguarum Fennicarum (2019)
- Linguistica Uralica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Muutosmallit Helsingin puhekielessä (2019)
- Sananjalka
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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