Research

Unpublished

• Sönning, Lukas. (in press). Ordinal response scales: Psychometric grounding for design and analysis. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics Accepted manuscript | OSF

• Sönning, Lukas. (in press). Advancing our understanding of dispersion measures in corpus research. Corpora Accepted manuscript | Data | OSF

• Sönning, Lukas, Jason Grafmiller & Raquel Romasanta. (under review). Regression and random forests: Synergies for variationist corpus research. Working paper | OSF

• Sönning, Lukas & Jesse Egbert. (in preparation). Sensitivity of dispersion measures to distributional patterns and corpus design. Working paper | OSF

• Sönning, Lukas, Ole Schützler, Manfred Krug & Fabian Vetter. (in preparation). The morpho-syntax of Scottish Standard English: Questionnaire-based insights. OSF

• Sönning, Lukas. (in preparation). Down-sampling strategies in corpus phonology. OSF

• Sönning, Lukas. (in preparation). Case-control down-sampling in corpus-based research.

• Sönning, Lukas. (unpublished manuscript). Count regression models for keyness analysis. Working paper | OSF

• Sönning, Lukas. (unpublished manuscript). Evaluation of text-level measures of lexical dispersion: Robustness and consistency. Working paper | Data | OSF

 

Published

Monograph

• Sönning, Lukas. 2020. Phonological variation in German Learner English. University of Bamberg dissertation. doi: 10.20378/irb-49135 | Open access | Datasets | OSF

Journal articles

• Sönning, Lukas, Manfred Krug, Fabian Vetter, Timo Schmid, Anne Leucht & Paul Messer. 2024. Latent-variable modelling of ordinal outcomes in language data analysis. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 31(2). 77–106. doi: 10.1080/09296174.2024.2329448 | Submitted manuscript | Data | OSF

• Sönning, Lukas. 2024. Down-sampling from hierarchically structured corpus data. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. doi: 10.1075/ijcl.23079.son | Submitted manuscript | Data | OSF

• Sönning, Lukas. 2024. Evaluation of keyness metrics: Performance and reliability. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 20(2). 263–288. doi: 10.1515/cllt-2022-0116 | Submitted manuscript | Data | OSF

• Sönning, Lukas & Jason Grafmiller. 2024. Seeing the wood for the trees: Predictive margins for random forests. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 20(1). 153–181. doi: 10.1515/cllt-2022-0083 | Submitted manuscript | Data | OSF

• Sönning, Lukas & Valentin Werner. 2021. The replication crisis, scientific revolutions, and linguistics. Linguistics 59(5). 1179–1206. doi: 10.1515/ling-2019-0045 | Open access

• Sönning, Lukas. 2014. Unstressed vowels in German Learner English: An instrumental study. Research in Language 12(2). 163–173. doi: 10.2478/rela-2014-0001 | Open access | OSF

Edited volumes

• Sönning, Lukas & Ole Schützler (eds.). 2023. Data visualization in corpus linguistics: Reflections and future directions (Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English; No. 22). University of Helsinki: VARIENG. https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:varieng:series-22

• Sönning, Lukas & Valentin Werner. 2021. The replication crisis: Implications for linguistics. Special issue in Linguistics. Open access

• Christ, Hanna, Daniel Klenovšak, Lukas Sönning & Valentin Werner (eds.). 2016. A blend of MaLT: Selected contributions from the Methods and Linguistic Theories Symposium. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press. Open access

Book chapters

• Sönning, Lukas. 2023. Drawing on principles of perception: The line plot. In Lukas Sönning & Ole Schützler (eds.), Data visualization in corpus linguistics: Reflections and future directions (Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English; No. 22). University of Helsinki: VARIENG. https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:varieng:series-22-2 | Preprint | OSF

• Sönning, Lukas. 2023. (Re-)viewing the acquisition of rhythm in the light of L2 phonological theories. In Robert Fuchs (ed.), Speech rhythm in learner and second language varieties of English, 123–157. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-19-8940-7_6 | Preprint | Data | OSF

• Sönning, Lukas & Manfred Krug. 2022. Comparing study designs and down-sampling strategies in corpus analysis: The importance of speaker metadata in the BNCs of 1994 and 2014. In Ole Schützler & Julia Schlüter (eds.), Data and methods in corpus linguistics: Comparative approaches, 127–159. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108589314.006 | Data | OSF

• Sönning, Lukas & Julia Schlüter. 2022. Comparing standard reference corpora and Google Books Ngrams: Strengths, limitations and synergies in the contrastive study of variable h- in British and American English. In Ole Schützler & Julia Schlüter (eds.), Data and methods in corpus linguistics: Comparative approaches, 17–45. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108589314.002 | OSF

• Krug, Manfred & Lukas Sönning. 2018. Language change in Maltese English: The influence of age and parental languages. In: Patrizia Paggio & Albert Gatt (eds.), The languages of Malta, 247–270. Berlin: Language Science Press. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1181801 | Open access

Proceedings

• Sönning, Lukas. 2016. The dot plot: A graphical tool for data analysis and presentation. In Hanna Christ, Daniel Klenovšak, Lukas Sönning & Valentin Werner (eds.), A blend of MaLT: Selected contributions from the Methods and Linguistic Theories Symposium, 101–129. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press. Open access

• Sönning, Lukas. 2014. Developmental patterns in the reduction of unstressed vowels by German learners of English. In Ludmila Veselovská & Markéta Janebová (eds.), Complex visibles out there: Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2014: Language use and linguistic structure, vol. 4 Olomouc modern language series, 765–778. Olomouc: Palacký University. Open access | OSF

• Sönning, Lukas. 2013. Scrabble yourself to success: Methods in teaching transcription. In Joanna Przedlacka, John Maidment & Michael Ashby (eds.), Proceedings of the Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference, UCL, London, 8-10 August 2013. London: Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference, 87–90. Open access | OSF | Data

 

Datasets

• Sönning, Lukas. 2024. Background data for: Ordinal response scales: Psychometric grounding for design and analysis, https://doi.org/10.18710/0VLSLW, DataverseNO, V1

• Krug, Manfred, Fabian Vetter & Lukas Sönning. 2024. Background data for: Latent-variable modeling of ordinal outcomes in language data analysis. https://doi.org/10.18710/WI9TEH, DataverseNO, V1.

• Sönning, Lukas. 2023. Background data (adapted from Jenset & McGillivray 2017) for: Down-sampling from hierarchically structured corpus data, https://doi.org/10.18710/5KCE4U, DataverseNO, V1.

• Sönning, Lukas. 2023. Key verbs in academic writing: Dataset for “Evaluation of keyness metrics: Performance and reliability”, https://doi.org/10.18710/EUXSMW, DataverseNO, V1.

• Sönning, Lukas. 2022. Speech rhythm in German Learner English: Dataset for “(Re-)viewing the acquisition of rhythm in the light of L2 phonological theories”, https://doi.org/10.18710/GTI2BR, DataverseNO, V1.

• Sönning, Lukas & Manfred Krug. 2021. Actually in contemporary British speech: Data from the Spoken BNC corpora, https://doi.org/10.18710/A3SATC, DataverseNO, V1.

• Sönning, Lukas. 2022. Dataset for “Scrabble yourself to success: Methods in teaching transcription”, https://doi.org/10.18710/2UJHHU, DataverseNO, V1.

Dissertation

• Sönning, Lukas. 2021. The TRAP-DRESS contrast in German Learner English: Dataset for chapter 4 in “Phonological variation in German Learner English”, https://doi.org/10.18710/ATIRRV, DataverseNO, V1.

• Sönning, Lukas. 2021. Clear vs. dark /l/ in German Learner English: Dataset for chapter 5 in “Phonological variation in German Learner English”, https://doi.org/10.18710/G6PJ5F, DataverseNO, V1.

• Sönning, Lukas, Graham Pascoe, Isabel Rank and Christina Wunder. 2021. English /r/ in German Learner English: Dataset for chapter 6 in “Phonological variation in German Learner English”, https://doi.org/10.18710/YDKDFG, DataverseNO, V1.

• Sönning, Lukas, Graham Pascoe, Isabel Rank and Christina Wunder. 2021. The labio-velar glide /w/ in German Learner English: Dataset for chapter 7 in “Phonological variation in German Learner English”, https://doi.org/10.18710/F1A34O, DataverseNO, V1.

• Sönning, Lukas & Isabel Rank. 2021. The labiodental fricative /v/ in German Learner English: Dataset for chapter 8 in “Phonological variation in German Learner English”, https://doi.org/10.18710/B276ZX, DataverseNO, V1.

• Sönning, Lukas, Graham Pascoe & Christina Wunder. 2021. The voiced dental fricative in German Learner English: Dataset for chapter 9 in “Phonological variation in German Learner English”, https://doi.org/10.18710/DYAGZG, DataverseNO, V1.

• Sönning, Lukas & Graham Pascoe. 2021. Final voiced obstruents in German Learner English: Dataset for chapter 10 in “Phonological variation in German Learner English”, https://doi.org/10.18710/DKIGE5, DataverseNO, V1.