L1/L2 acquisition
Co-phonologies and parallel grammars in L1 acquisition: I have also worked in collaboration with Marina Tzakosta (University of Crete) and Spyridoula Varlokosta (University of the Aegean) on (typical and atypical) phonological acquisition where my interest is mainly on the architecture of early grammars and the formal expression of learning paths as these are
Tzakosta, Μ. & A. Revithiadou. 2007. Α Grammar Inclusion Hypothesis of child language
variation. Journal of Greek Linguistics 7, 49-70.
Revithiadou, A. & M. Tzakosta. 2004a. Alternative grammars in acquisition: Μarkedness- vs. faithfulness-oriented learning. In Proceedings of the 28th BUCLD Annual Conference on Language Development: Supplement, Brugos, A., L. Micciula & C.E. Smith (eds.). Cascadilla Press, Somerville, CA.
Revithiadou, A. & M. Tzakosta. 2004b. Markedness hierarchies vs. positional faithfulness and the role of multiple grammars in the acquisition of Greek. In Proceedings of GALA 2003: Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition, Baauw S. & J. van Kampen (eds.), vol. 2, 377-388. Utrecht University, Utrecht.
Revithiadou, A. & M. Τzakosta. 2007. Η Φωνολογία στην Εκμάθηση της Ελληνικής ως Ξένης Γλώσσας. [Phonology in the Acquisition of L2 Greek.] Εκδόσεις Πατάκη, Αθήνα. [Patakis Publications, Athens.] [Click here to view the table of contents, pdf, 44KB.]
Following this line of research, we also investigate differences in the acquisition of verbal and nominal inflection by the same group of speakers. The results from the sentence completion, the grammaticality judgement and the sentence-picture matching tasks indicate that the Greek learners of Turkish experience more difficulties with case morphology rather than with verbal morphology. Furthermore, the learners’ performance on the verbal and on the case suffixes show improvement in higher proficiency levels; however, difficulties with case morphology persist with non-specific objects as well as with the dative case when it denotes direction. The error analysis for the case suffixes shows that the non-native speakers have internalized the function of the cases and the difficulties attested may be due to the morphological realization of case morphemes.
Papadopoulou, D., S. Varlokosta, V. Spyropoulos, H. Kaili, S. Prokou & A. Revithiadou. 2011a. Case morphology and word order in L2 Turkish: Evidence from Greek learners. Second Language Research 25: 173-204.
Papadopoulou, D., S. Varlokosta, V. Spyropoulos, H. Kaili, S. Prokou & A. Revithiadou. 2011b. The acquisition of verbal and nominal suffixes by Greek learners of Turkish. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of Greek Linguistics, Koutsogiannis, D., D. Papadopoulou & A. Revithiadou (eds.). Institute of Modern Greek Studies, Triantafyllidis Foundation, Thessaloniki.