Tanja Mirtič (1983) is a researcher at the Department of Lexicology. Her research focusses on phonetics, phonology, accentology, morphology and normativity. She participates in the making of the 3rd edition of the Dictionary of the Slovenian Standard Language (eSSKJ; 2016–) and the Growing Dictionary of the Slovenian Language. Other linguistic interests include dialectology, especially Lower Carniolan dialect of Slovenian, and bohemistics.

Research Areas

• phonetics and phonology
• accentology
• morphology
• lexicography
• dialectology
• bohemistics
• normativity

Education, Academic and Scientific Titles

• 2016: research fellow, ZRC SAZU, Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language
• 2016: MA in Czech Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
• 2015: PhD thesis: Inflectional-Accentual Paradigms of Standard Slovenian, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana;
• 2010: MA in Comparative Slavic Linguistics and History, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana

Employments, Leadership Positions and Competences

Employments:

• 2011–: ZRC SAZU, Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language, Ljubljana

Leadership Positions:

• 2020–: head of Phonetics Laboratory
• 2019–2022: leader of postdoctoral research project Growing Database of Orthoepic Problems
• 2016–2017: leader of the working group Slovenian and Spoken Public Communication: Radio, Television and Theatre in the project Language Policy of the Republic of Slovenia and the Needs of Users (V6-1647)
• 2016–2024: leader of the normative protocol group

Work in Editorial Boards and Expert Commissions:

• 2022–: member of the Commission on Orthography at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
• 2020: member of the programme and organization committee of the 1st Slovene Orthoepic Conference

Outstanding Achievements, Awards and Grants

• 2020, 2021: co-editor of proceedings of the 1st Slovene Orthoepic Conference
• 2020: invited lecture at the conference Media and Spoken Slovene
• 2020: invited lecture at the European Researchers’ Night 2020
• 2016–: editor of pronunciation and inflectional and accentual paradigms in the 3rd edition of the Dictionary of the Slovenian Standard Language
• 2015: co-author of concept of the 3rd edition of the Dictionary of the Slovenian Standard Language
• 2014–: editor of accent, pronunciation and morphology in Growing Dictionary of the Slovenian Language
• 2014: co-editor of the Dictionary of the Slovenian Standard Language, Second, Augmented and Partly Revised Edition
• 2012: co-author of Dictionary of New Slovenian Words