[last update: 2025-01 / next update: 2026-01]
My name is Nate Young, and I am an Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer of Swedish as a Second Language at The Department of Swedish at Linnæus University. I hold a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Queen Mary, University of London.
My key interest is in the Nordic languages, and my research and teaching cover speech-language technology, acoustic phonetics, contact linguistics, language variation and change, big data, and the scalability of analyses. I also work on forensic linguistics, addressing questions of representativity and the responsible integration of AI.
My formal education is in "Labovian" sociolinguistics, a quantitative field primarily dedicated to studying variation and change within the sound system of a language.