Lukas Sönning

Universität Bamberg

Lukas Sönning is a post-doctoral researcher associated with the Chair of English Linguistics at the University of Bamberg (Germany). Following his PhD project, which looked at phonological features in German Learner English, his interest shifted to statistical aspects of corpus-linguistic methodology. He has worked on topics such as keyness analysis, dispersion, and down-sampling, and his habilitation (post-doc) project concentrates on the linguistically grounded use of mixed-effects models in variationist corpus research. Lukas has also been an active promoter of open-science practices and his work is strongly informed by his passion for data visualization. He is currently also involved in a DFG-funded project on the analysis of high-dimensional survey data drawn from the BSLVC (Bamberg Survey of Language Variation and Change).