January 2012 - October 2015

Thalis Excellence Project, VOCALECT, University of Ioannina

Scientific Director: Dr. Mary Baltazani, University of Ioannina
Funding agency: European Union (European Social Fund - ESF) and Greek national funds through the Operational Program “Education and Lifelong Learning” of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) (600.000€)

I was a Researcher in thePhonology Team working on the phonological behavior of vowels and vowel-like elements in the Greek dialects under investigation.

The main goals of this project were: (a) to provide a comprehensive description and analysis of the vowel systems of several Modern Greek dialects at a phonetic and phonological level. To this end, it uses robust methodology including phonetic experimental techniques for the acoustic, articulatory (electropalatographic) and perceptual analyses of vowel data, statistical processing of data and interpretation of results within the framework of current phonetic and phonological theories; and (b) to construct an updatable database and a glotto-geographic index that will facilitate the presentation of collected data. It will allow browsing through a dialect index, a sounds/phenomena index and an interactive map with multiple levels of detail. At a theoretical level, the results of this research are expected to shed light to hypotheses accounting for differences in the distribution of vowels in the vowel space e.g. Maximal Dispersion Hypothesis vs. proposals that include other explanatory parameters such as selected sociolinguistic mechanisms of language change.

2011

A.U.Th RESEARCH COMITTEE RESEARCH GRANTS – 2011, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Linguistics

Project Title: Experimental investigations on Greek stress with focus on (a)typical language development

Duration: January 2012 – December 2012
Scientific Director: Dr. Anthi Revithiadou, Department of Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Funding agency: A.U.Th Research Committee (4.000€)

The main goal of this project was to explore the production and perception of Greek stress on the basis of experimental procedures. A central question was to investigate whether the default antepenultimate stress is dynamically present in the Greek (inflected/non-inflected) vocabulary and whether children with (a)typical language development advance antepenultimate stress or some other permissible stress pattern compared to other.

September 2010 – December 2013

EDUCATION OF IMMIGRANT AND REPATRIATE STUDENTS, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
[URL:http://www.diapolis.auth.gr/]

Scientific Director: Prof. Anna Anastassiadis-Symeonidis, Department of Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Funding agency: The National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) 2007-2013 and national resources (Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs)

Action: REINFORCEMENT OF THE MOTHER TONGUE
Scientific Coordinator: Dr. Anthi Revithiadou

I collaborated with a group of linguists, language instructors and educators in order to: (a) develop comparative linguistic studies of Greek and Russian and Greek and Albanian, (b) produce the appropriate linguistic material for teaching to first and secondary education students their native tongue, and (c) develop a framework for the preservation of bilingualism.

January 1, 2009 – December 15, 2009

STUDIES 2009 | ΜΕΛΕΤΕΣ 2009, “Ofitika Pontic: A documentation project with special emphasis on the diachrony and synchrony of the dialect”, University of the Aegean, Department of Mediterranean Studies
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Principal investigators: Dr. Anthi Revithiadou and Dr. Vassilios Spyropoulos
Funding Agency: John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation (12.000€)

Ofitika Pontic (OP) is a Greek dialect of the Pontic dialect group which is currently spoken in a few isolated pockets in Νorthern Greece by Pontian Greeks who originate from the Of area, and also in about thirty villages in the provinces of Of and Çaykara in Turkey. The main goal of this project was to provide a structured documentation of OP based on the outcomes of: (a) an archive research at the Taylor Bodleian Slavonic & Modern Greek Library of Oxford, the Research Centre for Modern Greek Dialects of the Academy of Athens and other specialized libraries in Greece and abroad, and (b) a fieldtrip in the village of Nea Trapezounta (prefecture of Pieria), which is predominantly inhabited by Of Pontians and their descendants.

The end product of this project was a monograph with the basic typological characteristics of OP at all grammatical levels (phonology, morphology and syntax) as these were revealed from the comparative study of the few existing (published and unpublished) grammatical descriptions of the dialect in question as well as the elaborate study of written OP documents such as work logs, sayings, folk stories and narratives, cooking recipes, etc. The results of the archive and document research were further complemented with the findings of the research on the spoken material collected during the fieldwork trip in the village of Nea Trapezounta.

March 2004 – August 2006

PYTHAGORAS, “A comparative study of Greek-Turkish: Grammatical analysis and acquisition of Turkish as a foreign language”, University of the Aegean, Department of Mediterranean Studies

Head Co-ordinator: Spyridoula Varlokosta; Co-ordinator: Anthi Revithiadou
Funding Agency: Operational Program for Reinforcement of Research Groups at Universities, sponsored by the Second Community Support Framework and co-financed by the European Social Fund, the European Regional Development Fund (75%) and national resources (Greek Ministry of National Education and Religion, 25%) (50.000€)

Aim: The aim of the project was to pursue: (a) the grammatical description of Turkish and its comparative study with Greek, (b) the study of the acquisition of Turkish by Greek learners, (c) the development of a software for learning and teaching Turkish as a foreign language.

Research team: Dr. Spyridoula Varlokosta, Dr. Anthi Revithiadou, Dr. Vassilios Spyropoulos, Dr. Despoina Papadopoulou (postdoc researcher), Sophia Prokou, Hasan Kaili, Dr. Katerina Frantzi, Kalomoira Nikolou

2002-2004

EDUCATION OF THE MUSLIM MINORITY CHILDREN IN THRACE, National and Capodistrian University of Athens

Scientific Director: Prof. Anna Frangoudaki, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Funding Agency: Operational Program for Education and Initial Vocational Training (O.P. “Education”) sponsored by the Third Community Support Framework and co-financed by the European Social Fund, the European Regional Development Fund (75%) and national resources (Ministry of National Education and Religion, 25%)

Action: Grammar and Teaching
Project Leader: Dr. Spyros Moschonas, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies

I was a scientific advisor and researcher on issues pertaining to teaching the phonology of Greek as a second language (L2). My contribution was a scientific report on “The acquisition of suprasegmental phonology by L2 learner of Greek”, which focused primarily on the acquisition of Greek stress, phrasal phonology and intonation by Turkish-speaking students of the minority elementary schools in Thrace.