MANUEL LIPSTEIN
Linguist & Musician
I’m a MA Linguistics student and student assistant at Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany), specialised in phonology and syntax.
Currently I’m an exchange student at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (Spain).
Contact: surname [at] lingua.uni-frankfurt.de
Education
October 2023 - now
September 2024 - March 2025
October 2020 - April 2024
October 2019 - July 2024
October 2011 - July 2019
MA Linguistics (focus in phonology, syntax, psycholinguistics)
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (GU)
Erasmus exchange: MA Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (computational track)
Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona (UPF)
BA Linguistics (final grade: 1.0)
Final thesis: Perception of HL Alignment in the Tonal Accent of Urban East Norwegian
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (GU)
BMus, MMus & Professional Studies: International Violoncello Solo Performance
Kronberg Academy and Music University Frankfurt am Main (HfMDK)
Pre-College Violoncello
Music University Cologne (HfMT)
Experience
April 2024 - now
April 2020 - now
January - February 2017
Student assistant
for Prof. Dr. Frank Kügler, department of phonology
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Student assistant: teacher of 10 tutorial courses (Tutorien)
Introduction to Linguistics (4 times), Semantics (4 times), Phonology, Historical Linguistics
Goethe University Frankfurt
Internship: assistant tasks for Dr. Gabriele Schwiertz and Prof. Dr. Birgit Hellwig, including the transcription, glossing and translation of fieldwork videos for A Grammar of Qaqet (Hellwig, 2019)
Institute of Linguistics, University of Cologne
Talks
March 2025
12 June 2024
“Object Pronouns in Edo Verb Serialisation: at the Interface of Clause Syntax and Event Semantics”
47th annual conference of the German linguistics association (DGfS) in Mainz
Workshop 2 “Verbal complex predicates in a theoretical and cross-linguistic perspective”
“Timing or privativity? HL Alignment in the Perception of Urban East Norwegian Tonal Accent”
Colloquium “New Topics in Phonology”
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Language skills
German
Spanish
English
Catalan
Swedish
Norwegian
French
Mandarin Chinese
Indonesian/Malay
Thai
native
proficient, receptively native
proficient, academic
advanced
advanced
advanced
intermediate
good (Unicert B1)
elementary
beginner
About my name
In German, I pronounce my name as [ˈmaː.nu.ɛl ˈlɪp.ʃtaɪ̯n], although [ˈliːp.ʃtaɪ̯n] would be etymologically more accurate. With non-Germans, I prefer the Spanish pronunciation [maˈnwe̞l ˈlip.ste̞i̯n].
And well, I dislike the very German [ˈmaː.nu.(ʔ)eːl].
The Chinese transcription is 曼纽尔·利普斯坦 Mànniǔ'ěr Lìpǔsītǎn. My Thai name is มนู [má nūː].