~Demetris Karayiannishttps://dkarayiannis.eu/2021-10-08T09:12:45+00:00[Article] Assignment of Grammatical Gender in Heritage Greek2021-10-08T00:00:00+00:002021-10-08T09:12:45+00:00dkrtag:dkarayiannis.eu,2021-10-08:/a/article-assignment-of-grammatical-gender-in-heritage-greek/<p>I am very pleased to announce that <em><a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.717449/full">Assignment of Grammatical Gender in Heritage Greek</a></em> is now available on Frontiers in Psychology — Language Sciences. </p>
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<p>This study investigates the acquisition of grammatical gender in Heritage Greek as acquired by children (6–8 years of age) and adolescents (15–18 years) growing up in Adelaide, South Australia. The determiner elicitation task from Varlokosta (2005) was employed to assess the role of morphological and semantic cues when it comes to gender assignment for real and novel nouns. Ralli’s (1994) inflectional classes for Greek nouns and Anastasiadi-Symeonidi and Cheila-Markopoulou’s (2003) categories of prototypicality …</p></blockquote><p>I am very pleased to announce that <em><a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.717449/full">Assignment of Grammatical Gender in Heritage Greek</a></em> is now available on Frontiers in Psychology — Language Sciences. </p>
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<p>This study investigates the acquisition of grammatical gender in Heritage Greek as acquired by children (6–8 years of age) and adolescents (15–18 years) growing up in Adelaide, South Australia. The determiner elicitation task from Varlokosta (2005) was employed to assess the role of morphological and semantic cues when it comes to gender assignment for real and novel nouns. Ralli’s (1994) inflectional classes for Greek nouns and Anastasiadi-Symeonidi and Cheila-Markopoulou’s (2003) categories of prototypicality were employed in the analysis of the collected data. The performance of heritage speakers was compared to that of monolingual speakers from Greece (Varlokosta, 2011). The results indicate that–beyond age differences in the two groups–a formal phonological rule guides gender assignment in the production of heritage speakers which departs from initial expectations.</p>
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<p>Karayiannis D, Kambanaros M, Grohmann KK and Alexiadou A (2021) <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.717449/full">Assignment of Grammatical Gender in Heritage Greek</a>. <em>Front. Psychol.</em> 12:717449. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.717449 <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.717449/pdf">[PDF]</a> <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.717449/epub">[EPUB]</a></p>[FYI] CfP International Cyprus Undergraduate Linguistics Conference 20202020-07-18T11:40:23+00:002020-07-18T11:40:23+00:00dkrtag:dkarayiannis.eu,2020-07-18:/a/fyi-cfp-international-cyprus-undergraduate-linguistics-conference-2020/<p><a href="https://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-2296.html">LinguistList Link</a></p>
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<p>The Cyprus Undergraduate Linguistics Conference wishes to promote undergraduate research and to facilitate communication and discussion between researchers at all levels of undergraduate research throughout the linguistic community. Even during the Covid-19 conditions, our goal is to continue the iCULC tradition, by adding a third chapter. The 3rd International Cyprus Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (I-CULC3) will take place at the University of Cyprus on Saturday, November 28 to Sunday November 29, 2020 (Saturday may not include presentations, but we will have a welcome session, registration, and an evening social event.) </p>
<p>Keynote Speakers:
- Andrew Nevins (University College London)
- Svetlana Karpava …</p></blockquote><p><a href="https://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-2296.html">LinguistList Link</a></p>
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<p>The Cyprus Undergraduate Linguistics Conference wishes to promote undergraduate research and to facilitate communication and discussion between researchers at all levels of undergraduate research throughout the linguistic community. Even during the Covid-19 conditions, our goal is to continue the iCULC tradition, by adding a third chapter. The 3rd International Cyprus Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (I-CULC3) will take place at the University of Cyprus on Saturday, November 28 to Sunday November 29, 2020 (Saturday may not include presentations, but we will have a welcome session, registration, and an evening social event.) </p>
<p>Keynote Speakers:
- Andrew Nevins (University College London)
- Svetlana Karpava (University of Cyprus) </p>
<p>Organizing Committee:
- Anastasios Pliatsikas </p>
<p>The theme of this year is “Rules (?)”. Specifically, students may present their research on rules of grammar, (im)possible rules, unknown rules or even exceptions to those.
The updated deadline for abstract submission is September 15, 2020. Abstracts should not exceed two pages, including data, references and diagrams. They should be typed in 12-point font, with one-inch margins. Abstracts must be anonymous, and submissions are limited to 2 per author, at most one of which is single-authored. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Please submit your abstract via e-mail to culcucy.ac.cy.</p>
</blockquote>Presenting on Cypriot Greek Aphasia at PNCLR2019-04-20T09:38:43+00:002019-04-20T09:38:43+00:00dkrtag:dkarayiannis.eu,2019-04-20:/a/pnclr/<p>On the <strong>20th of April 2019</strong>, I will presenting our (Karayiannis, Georgiou, Grohmann & Kambanaros) work at the <a href="http://ff.uns.ac.rs/fakultet/konferencije/2019/PNCLR/PNCLR_Main.html">7th Novi Sad workshop on Psycholinguistic, neurolinguistic and clinical linguistic research</a>. The book of abstracts is <a href="http://ff.uns.ac.rs/fakultet/konferencije/2019/PNCLR/PNCLR7%20book%20of%20abstracts.pdf">here</a>, and I am reproducing our abstract below: </p>
<h3 id="linguistic-impairment-profiles-in-four-post-stroke-aphasia-case-studies-exploring-the-role-of-dialectal-micro-variation">Linguistic Impairment Profiles in Four Post-Stroke Aphasia Case Studies: Exploring the Role of Dialectal Micro-Variation</h3>
<p>Demetris Karayiannis<sup id="fnref:a"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:a">1</a></sup>, Anastasios M. Georgiou<sup id="fnref:b"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:b">2</a></sup>, Kleanthes K. Grohmann<sup id="fnref2:a"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:a">1</a></sup> & Maria Kambanaros<sup id="fnref2:b"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:b">2</a></sup></p>
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<p>Four Cypriot Greek-speaking patients with chronic post-stroke aphasia (3 fluent and 1 non-fluent) were enrolled in a study investigating the efficacy of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) for chronic aphasia post-stroke …</p></blockquote><p>On the <strong>20th of April 2019</strong>, I will presenting our (Karayiannis, Georgiou, Grohmann & Kambanaros) work at the <a href="http://ff.uns.ac.rs/fakultet/konferencije/2019/PNCLR/PNCLR_Main.html">7th Novi Sad workshop on Psycholinguistic, neurolinguistic and clinical linguistic research</a>. The book of abstracts is <a href="http://ff.uns.ac.rs/fakultet/konferencije/2019/PNCLR/PNCLR7%20book%20of%20abstracts.pdf">here</a>, and I am reproducing our abstract below: </p>
<h3 id="linguistic-impairment-profiles-in-four-post-stroke-aphasia-case-studies-exploring-the-role-of-dialectal-micro-variation">Linguistic Impairment Profiles in Four Post-Stroke Aphasia Case Studies: Exploring the Role of Dialectal Micro-Variation</h3>
<p>Demetris Karayiannis<sup id="fnref:a"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:a">1</a></sup>, Anastasios M. Georgiou<sup id="fnref:b"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:b">2</a></sup>, Kleanthes K. Grohmann<sup id="fnref2:a"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:a">1</a></sup> & Maria Kambanaros<sup id="fnref2:b"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:b">2</a></sup></p>
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<p>Four Cypriot Greek-speaking patients with chronic post-stroke aphasia (3 fluent and 1 non-fluent) were enrolled in a study investigating the efficacy of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) for chronic aphasia post-stroke. As part of the study, a linguistic analysis of connected speech samples was pursued. This analysis was conducted blind to the medical history of the participants and their performance in other verbal and non-verbal tests.</p>
<p>Four extended narrative samples (two prior treatment, one post treatment, one follow-up) were elicited from each participant using the Baby Goats stimulus from the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) (Gagarina et al., 2012). To analyse the narratives collected, the Quantitative Production Analysis (QPA) protocol (Saffran, Berndt, & Schwartz, 1989), as adopted for Modern Greek by Varkanitsa (2012), was employed. The QPA yielded measures of morphosyntactic complexity and overall sentence elaboration, as well as descriptive information about the proportion of words by grammatical category. An error type analysis was also pursued following Varkanitsa (2012).</p>
<p>The protocol revealed two patterns of performance. The first group (patients A and X) produced more elaborate sentences compared to the second group (patients I and M) as shown by their sentence elaboration and sentence embedding scores. A and X produced on average more narrative words than I and M, leading to higher MLUs. The first group also produced a higher number of lexical nouns pre-treatment than the second group, while the second group produced more pronouns at the expense of lexical nouns. The error type analysis did not yield as strong predictions as the QPA did, but when approached qualitatively, the second group showed more semantic infelicitousness than the first group. On aggregate, verbal morphology appeared relatively less affected than nominal morphology in the productions of all participants. This was a surprising result vis-a-vis verbal domain impairments reported for Modern Standard Greek-speaking people with aphasia. Cypriot Greek-speakers' performance in this study differs from Standard Modern Greek-speakers' performance both as regards the different levels of impairment in the nominal domain vs the verbal domain, and the dissociation of performance of Agreement vs Tense vs Aspect within the verbal domain (Fyndanis, Arcara, Christidou, & Caplan, 2018; Fyndanis, Varlokosta, & Tsapkini, 2012; Nanousi, Masterson, Druks, & Atkinson, 2006; Tsapkini, Jarema, & Kehayia, 2001).</p>
<p>The results indicate some predictive power for the QPA protocol, but they also raise some concerns about its suitability for languages with the typological characteristics of (Cypriot) Greek (possible relevant factors: being a null subject language; consistent Aspect marking in verbal morphology). More careful adaptation of QPA could benefit practitioners and help with screening for aphasia syndromes.</p>
<p>Moreover, the study provides new data for aphasic speech in a linguistic variety that has not been as extensively studied as Greece’s Standard Modern Greek. Diverging impairment patterns could provide insights in the role of structural micro-variation in the verbal domain between the two varieties.</p>
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<p>Agouraki, Yoryia. 2006. “The Perfect Category: A Comparison of Standard Greek and Cypriot Greek”. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory ed. by Mark Janse, Brian D. Joseph & Angela Ralli, 42–57. Mytilene: University of Patras.</p>
<p>Arvaniti, A. (1999). Cypriot Greek. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 29(2), 173–178. doi: 10.1017/S002510030000654X</p>
<p>Arvaniti, A. (2006). Linguistic practices in Cyprus and the emergence of Cypriot Standard Greek. San Diego Linguistic Papers, (2), 1–24.</p>
<p>Georgiou, A. M. (2019). Neuronavigated repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) in Chronic post-Stroke Aphasia Rehabilitation (Doctoral Thesis, Cyprus University of Technology). Retrieved from http://ktisis.cut.ac.cy/handle/10488/13362</p>
<p>Hadjioannou, X., Tsiplakou, S., & Kappler, with a contribution by M. (2011). Language policy and language planning in Cyprus. Current Issues in Language Planning. Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14664208.2011.629113</p>
<p>Kambanaros, M., & Grohmann, K. K. (2011). Profiling performance in L1 and L2 observed in Greek–English bilingual aphasia using the Bilingual Aphasia Test: a case study from Cyprus. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics. Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/02699206.2011.563899</p>
<p>Nevins, A., & Chitoran, I. (2008). Phonological representations and the variable patterning of glides. Studies on the Phonetics and Phonology of Glides, 118(12), 1979–1997. doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2007.10.006</p>
<p>Saffran, E. M., Berndt, R. S., & Schwartz, M. F. (1989). The quantitative analysis of agrammatic production: Procedure and data. Brain and Language, 37(3), 440–479. doi:10.1016/0093-934X(89)90030-8Varkanitsa, M. (2012). Quantitative and error analysis of connected speech: Evidence from Greek-speaking patients with aphasia and normal speakers. Current Trends in Greek Linguistics., 313–338.</p>
<p>Varella, S. (2006). Language contact and the lexicon in the history of Cypriot Greek. In Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics: Vol. vol. 7. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang.</p>
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</div>CAT presentation2019-03-04T17:30:37+00:002019-03-04T17:30:37+00:00dkrtag:dkarayiannis.eu,2019-03-04:/a/cat-presentation/<p>On the <strong>10th of April 2019</strong>, I will presenting aspects of my thesis project at the <a href="https://research.biolinguistics.eu/CAT/">Cyprus Acquisition Team</a> weekly meeting. Working title: <em>Language Loss in Cypriot Greek-speaking Adults with Neurogenic Disorders.</em> Thanks to CAT for the invitation!</p>Pelican workshop at UCLan Cyprus2019-03-01T19:21:45+00:002019-03-01T19:21:45+00:00dkrtag:dkarayiannis.eu,2019-03-01:/a/pelican-workshop-at-uclan-cyprus/<p>On <strong>21st of March 2019</strong>, 11:00-13:00, I will giving a brief introduction to static website generation with <a href="https://getpelican.com/">Pelican</a> at UCLan’s Research Seminar Series. <a href="https://nataliapavlou.com/">Natalia Pavlou</a> will be giving a thorough introduction to Wordpress in the same workshop. Thanks to her and Sviatlana Karpava for the invitation!</p>First release for my Cypriot Greek keyboard2018-02-09T18:20:08+00:002018-02-09T18:20:08+00:00dkrtag:dkarayiannis.eu,2018-02-09:/a/first-release-for-my-cypriot-greek-keyboard/<p>I just published the first public version of <a href="https://software.tarxjf.info/cgr-keyboard/">a Cypriot Greek keyboard layout for GNU/Linux</a>.</p>
<p>It implements several of the typographical variants used to write Cypriot Greek in academic and literary contexts (a simple Greek keyboard layout is enough to type Cypriot Greek in its usual spelling which relies on digraphs and trigraphs).</p>Τα /ɾiˈaʝːa/, /ɾiˈaʎːa/? Aspects of Yeísmo in Cyprus2017-11-04T00:00:00+00:002019-11-05T09:43:44+00:00dkrtag:dkarayiannis.eu,2017-11-04:/a/ta-riaja-riaya-aspects-of-yeismo-in-cyprus/<p>In April 2017, me and my colleague Andreas Pingouras presented our research on the [ʝː]~[ʎː] allophony in Cypriot Greek at the <a href="https://culc.ucy.ac.cy/a/conference-information-and-programme-updated.html">1st Cyprus Undergraduate Linguistics Conference</a>. We finally got around releasing our slides. We also discussed our research and the phenomenon in general recently, on Dr Spyros Armostis’ radio show <em>Usus norma loquendi</em>. I am making downloads of both available below:</p>
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<li>Presentation Slides 26/04/2017 - in English <a href="https://dkarayiannis.eu/media/yeismo-2016/aspects-of-yeismo-in-cyprus-2016-culc-presentation.pdf">[PDF]</a> (531.1 kB)</li>
<li>Usus norma loquendi on 03/11/2017 - in Greek <a href="https://dkarayiannis.eu/media/yeismo-2016/usus_norma_loquendi_3_Nov_2017.ogg">[OGG/Vorbis]</a> (45.4 MB)</li>
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<p><strong>Demetris Karayiannis, Andreas Pingouras</strong>, Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus …</p></blockquote><p>In April 2017, me and my colleague Andreas Pingouras presented our research on the [ʝː]~[ʎː] allophony in Cypriot Greek at the <a href="https://culc.ucy.ac.cy/a/conference-information-and-programme-updated.html">1st Cyprus Undergraduate Linguistics Conference</a>. We finally got around releasing our slides. We also discussed our research and the phenomenon in general recently, on Dr Spyros Armostis’ radio show <em>Usus norma loquendi</em>. I am making downloads of both available below:</p>
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<li>Presentation Slides 26/04/2017 - in English <a href="https://dkarayiannis.eu/media/yeismo-2016/aspects-of-yeismo-in-cyprus-2016-culc-presentation.pdf">[PDF]</a> (531.1 kB)</li>
<li>Usus norma loquendi on 03/11/2017 - in Greek <a href="https://dkarayiannis.eu/media/yeismo-2016/usus_norma_loquendi_3_Nov_2017.ogg">[OGG/Vorbis]</a> (45.4 MB)</li>
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<p><strong>Demetris Karayiannis, Andreas Pingouras</strong>, Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus</p>
<p>Using a modified version of Labov’s (1966) planned interview methodology from his New York study, we tried to find the age distribution of the voiced palatal fricative [ʝː] and palatal lateral approximant [ʎː] allophones in the Cypriot Greek variety of Nicosia residents, and the prevalence of the [ʝː] allophone among Paphos residents when compared to Nicosia residents. The experiment was made up of four parts: a) a list of pictures incorporated in simple sentences b) a list of words c) a poem d) a short narrative. The four parts were randomised, the contents of each individual part, however, were fixed. The entire experiment, including the instructions and any conversation between interviewer and interviewee, was conducted entirely in Cypriot Greek to avoid priming the interviewee into responding in a more formal style. The subjects were divided into four age groups, namely: 18–34, 35–50, 51+. Our hypothesis was that there would be no meaningful difference in the distribution of the two allophones between age groups in Nicosia, that the palatal fricative has fallen out of use across all age groups, at least to some extent, and, consequently, that the palatal lateral approximant allophone would have become more prevalent throughout the population when compared to older studies of Cypriot Greek. In Paphos, we postulated that the [ʎː] variant would be much more prevalent, and that the [ʝː] variant would be very rare, as attested by Pappas (2014).</p>
</blockquote>The homepage is no longer a placeholder!2017-11-03T08:26:58+00:002017-11-03T08:26:58+00:00dkrtag:dkarayiannis.eu,2017-11-03:/a/the-homepage-is-no-longer-a-placeholder/<p>I finally adopted the theme I use for my <a href="https://log.tarxjf.info">blog</a> as a
more general-use CMS for a homepage. In the coming weeks I will try to upload
material such as long-form papers, research findings, and software I wrote in
dedicated pages. This will unclutter the blog considerably. </p>
<p>So far I use “Articles” as status updates (like this one), and “Pages” as
Categories. I might switch that around soon though, to allow for some more
flexibility. </p>
<p>I will eventually release the template, which I call <code>monospace-modified-homepage</code>
in a public code repository.</p>