About

Dr. Lukas Sönning

Short academic CV

  • 2020 awarded PhD
  • 2012-2022 Research and teaching assistant at the University of Bamberg
  • 2006-2012 Studies in English, Geography and Pedagogy at the University of Bamberg

Awards

  • 2014 Best poster award, Olinco conferenece, Olomouc (“Vowel reduction in German Learner English: Developmental patterns”)
  • 2018 Best paper by an early career researcher, ICAME39, Tampere (John Sinclair bursary) (“Visual inference for corpus linguistics”)

Teaching

University courses

  • Forming (new) words: The morphological architecture of English
  • Applied data analysis for linguists
  • Investigating Lerner English
  • Second Language speech: Theory and practice
  • Measuring (your) foreign accent: The acoustic analysis of non-native speech
  • English phonetics & phonology
  • English grammar analysis
  • Translation English-German (intermediate and advanced level)
  • Revision course for state exam candidates: Synchronic linguistics
  • Revision course for state exam candidates: Translation English-German

Workshops

  • 2024 (University of Bamberg) RStudio crash course for PhD students | slides session 1 | slides session 2
  • 2023 (META-LING conference, Bamberg) Data publication using TROLLing OSF
  • 2023 (University of Würzburg) Basics of data analysis using R and RStudio OSF | slides part 1 | slides part 3
  • 2022 (University of Würzburg) Basic statistical methods for TEFL research OSF
  • 2019 (FJUEL conference, Bayreuth): Using “statistics” to learn about language: What matters (and what doesn’t) OSF
  • 2019 (BICLCE conference, Bamberg): The replication crisis in science: Challenges and chances for linguistics OSF
  • 2018 (Uppsala University, Sweden) Statistical inference using estimation: Methods for corpus linguistics slides
  • 2014 (EmMeth conference, Bamberg): Data visualization with R
  • 2014 (FJUEL conference, Bamberg): Workshop on statistical methods