Λαβύριθος and word-initial lambdacism in Anatolian Greek

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assessment of deep word knowledge in elementary and advanced iranian efl learners: a comparison of selective and productive wat tasks

testing plays a vital role in any language teaching program. it allows teachers and stakeholders, including program administrators, parents, admissions officers and prospective employers to be assured that the learners are progressing according to an accepted standard (douglas, 2010). the problems currently facing language testers have both practical and theoretical implications but the first i...

Towards a Typology of Word-initial Consonant Clusters: Evidence from the Acquisition of Greek

In this paper, I study the production of consonant clusters by Greek children and examine the consequences of the acquisition data for phonological theory, with particular emphasis on the word-initial position. Using a non-word repetition test, I tested the order of acquisition of wordinitial and word-medial s+obstruent (sT), obstruent-obstruent (TT) and obstruent-sonorant (TR) clusters in 59 c...

Differential Y-chromosome Anatolian influences on the Greek and Cretan Neolithic.

The earliest Neolithic sites of Europe are located in Crete and mainland Greece. A debate persists concerning whether these farmers originated in neighboring Anatolia and the role of maritime colonization. To address these issues 171 samples were collected from areas near three known early Neolithic settlements in Greece together with 193 samples from Crete. An analysis of Y-chromosome haplogro...

Perception of focus and word order variability in Greek

This is an experimental study of prosodic focus and syntactic word order interactions with reference to agent/recipient semantic relations in Greek. In accordance with one perception experiment, the results in morphology neutral context indicate: (1) listeners do not perceive agent and recipient semantic distinctions and (2) prosody and focus applications do not thus have any perception effect ...