To celebrate the success of the previous STaPs conferences, the call for abstracts for STaPs-22 is open now. We welcome abstracts of any area of linguistics: applied, theoretical and descriptive linguistics as well as language acquisition, phonetics, psycho-, neuro-, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and computational linguistics and language education. We also welcome both work in progress and work in the planning phase, as well as work that focuses on methodological issues/challenges from PhD students.

–Call for Abstracts for Oral Presentations (15 min. + 10 min. Q&A) and Posters (30 min.)

-Call for Abstracts for Workshops (45 min.)

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Computational modelling in Python
• Eye tracking
• PRAAT
• Statistics with R/SPSS
• Fine-Tuning Small Models on Google Colab (presenter: Péter Hatvani)
• Self & time management during PhD (presenter: Nguyen B. Ngoc Jade)
• Zotero

-Call for abstracts for Panel Discussions (60 min.)

Panels should consist of at least 3 participants.  Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Al and Academia
• Al and Research Ethics
• Awareness to Open Science
• Publishing

-Call for Special Interest Groups (SIGs) Organizers

We are pleased to announce the addition of a new section Special Interest Groups (SIGs). Here is the list of SIGs for STaPs 2025. We are open to your suggestions.

SIG 1: Experimental Pragmatics

SIG 2: Multilingualism and Language Variation

SIG 3: Language Planning and Processing

Abstract submission guidlines 

Deadline Extended until the 20th of December 2024 —Please send your abstracts directly to the email of the conference. We reached the limits in easychair.

We welcome 300 word abstract submissions in .docx or doc to our email address (please see below). Please include in the body of your email the following information: title, name(s) of author(s), affiliation, research area and presentation category (talk, poster, workshop, panel discussion or SIG).

Conference languages: English and German

Publication
All presenters will be invited to submit their papers for a volume of selected contributions.

Venue: Online,——

Date: 26-28 of February 2025

Contact: Please do not hesitate to contact us at 22ndlinguisticsconference@gmail.com, should you have any questions.