Symposium 2025

Welcome !

We are pleased to announce the 30th LIPP Symposium, to be held from May 21 to 23, 2025, at the Literaturhaus in Munich. Organized by members of the Graduate School Language & Literature of LMU Munich, this year’s symposium will focus on the theme “Variation and Cognition in Language”. It aims to bring together distinguished scholars from the fields of variationist sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics/cognitive sciences to explore innovative perspectives on the relationship between language variation and cognition. Join us for three days of stimulating discussions, insightful presentations, and collaborative networking opportunities in this dynamic field of study!

Keynote Speaker

PROF. DR. ERIK SCHLEEF
[UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG]
  • Professor of English Linguistics
  • research focuses: language variation and change, the acquisition of variation, sociolinguistics and perception, language and gender

▶︎ Wednesday, May 21
Topic: Sociolinguistic monitoring in England: Exploring Phonetic, Pragmatic, and Speech-Planning Features

Abstract

PROF. DR. MEREL KEIJZER [UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN]
  • Professor of English Linguistics & English as a second language
  • research focuses: Bilingualism, Bilingual processing, first language attrition, bilingualism and cognitive aging, second language pedagogy

► Thursday, May 22
Topic: Language learning never gets old: comparing the effects of lifelong multilingual experiences to later life language learning on the cognitive and psychosocial health of older adults

Abstract

PROF. DR. ADRIANA HANULÍKOVÁ [UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG]
  • Professor of Linguistics, IDF
  • research focuses: multilingualism, language variation, language learning and the social aspects of speech perception and processing

► Thursday, May 22
Topic: Patterns of variation in language processing and learning

Abstract

PROF. DR. HANS-JÖRG SCHMID [UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH]
  • Full Professor and Chair of Modern English Linguistics
  • research focuses: linguistic theory, cognitive linguistics, lexical semantics, syntax, word-formation, pragmatics, sociolinguistics and language change

► Friday, May 23
Topic: Be(a)ware of the cognitive elephant in the sociolinguistic room

Abstract