STaPs, as a conference by Ph.D. students for Ph.D. students, is unique among PhD conferences in that it welcomes both work in progress and work in the planning phase, as well as work that focuses on methodological issues/challenges rather than on completed research projects/ attained results. Projects of any area of linguistics can be presented (theoretical and descriptive linguistics as well as language acquisition, phonetics, psycho-, neuro-, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and computational linguistics; synchronic or diachronic).

The following categories are welcome:

Oral Presentations (15 min. + 10 min. Q&A) and Posters (30 min.)

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

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

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 

We welcome 300 word abstract submissions by the 20th of December 2024. Please send your abstracts to the email of the conference: 2ndlinguisticsconference@gmail.com

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.