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Inger M. Mees

Inger Margrethe Mees was born in Paris in 1953. She grew up in Belgium, Sweden and England and completed her education in the Netherlands at the University of Leiden, where she read English language and literature. In 1974-75, she spent a year at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. She obtained her master’s degree (cum laude) from Leiden in 1977. In the same year, she was appointed lecturer in the Department of English at Leiden University, where she specialised in the teaching of phonetics, pronunciation training and dialectology. In 1983, she obtained her doctorate from Leiden for a thesis involving a longitudinal socio¬phonetic study of the pronunciation of primary schoolchildren in Wales. At present she holds the post of Associate Professor in the Department of English at CBS, where she teaches English pronunciation, phonetics of English and sociolinguistics to undergraduate and postgraduate students. From 1999-2000 she held the Giese Lectureship in phonetics at the University of Copenhagen. She has written books and articles on contrastive phonetics and pronunciation training for Danish and Dutch students and has also published in the fields of dialectology, sociolinguistics, historiography of linguistics and translation processes.

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