We are pleased to announce the 30 Symposium of the Linguistic International PhD Program (LIPP) at LMU Munich, scheduled to take place from May 21 to 23, 2025, at the Seidlvilla in Munich. The LIPP symposium is regularly organized by members of the Graduate School Language & Literature Munich. This year’s symposium will focus on the theme “Variation and Cognition in Language”, bringing together researchers from the fields of variationist sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics/cognitive sciences. Its goal is to explore new perspectives on the relationship between language variation and cognition.

Possible topics include the following:

• Psycholinguistic Studies of Variation
• Cognitive Factors in Language Variation and Change
• Psycholinguistic and/or Variationist Views on Language Acquisition
• Neurocognitive Underpinnings of Language Variation
• Social Dimensions of Language Variation
• Language Processing and Comprehension in Discourse
• Individual Differences in Variation Processing
• Variationist Perspectives on Bilingual and Multilingual Language Acquisition and Processing
• Computational Modeling of Variation
• Experimental Approaches to Variationist Sociolinguistics and Psycholinguistics

We especially welcome abstracts that operate at the interface of Variation and Cognition.
Additionally, we encourage submissions from researchers rooted in either field who are prepared to present their findings in a way that bridges the gap between the two disciplines.

The conference will feature two presentation formats:
1) 20-minute talks followed by a 10-minute discussion
2) Poster presentations

Keynote Speakers:

• Merel Keijzer, Professor of English Linguistics and English as a Second Language at the University of Groningen
• Erik Schleef, Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Salzburg
• Adriana Hanulíková, Junior Professor of German Linguistics at the University of Freiburg
• Hans-Jörg Schmid, Professor of English Linguistics at LMU Munich

Submission Guidelines:
Abstracts should not exceed 500 words and must be submitted electronically via Form (https://www.symp.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/wp-login.php) by December 15, 2024. After a peer-review process, authors will be notified of acceptance by January 31, 2025.

Important Dates:

• Submission Deadline: December 15, 2024
• Notification of Acceptance: January 31, 2025
• Symposium Dates: May 21 to 23, 2025

Organization (in alphabetical order):

• Carolina Billio Graeber
• Marie-Christin Flohr
• Nathalie Heider
• Sonja Quehenberger
• Katharina Six
• Stina Viher

Patrons (in alphabetical order):

• Lars Bülow, Professor of German Linguistics at LMU Munich
• Sarah Schimke, Professor of German Linguistics at LMU Munich

Contact Information:
For inquiries regarding the symposium, please contact symposium@lipp.uni-muenchen.de