Intonation of Greek in contact with Turkish: a diachronic study

Abstract Asia Minor Greek (AMG) speakers cohabited with Turkish for eight hundred years until the 1923 Lausanne Convention, which forced a two-way mass population exchange between Turkey and Greece severed their everyday contact. We compare intonation of continuation rise tune in speech first-generation AMG born three subsequent generations Greece. examine how long contact effects persist after has ceased, through comparison f 0 patterns four those Athenian Greek- Turkish-speaking contemporaries. The exhibits two curve shape time alignment rises, one Athenian-like Turkish-like. Over use latter diminishes, while pattern becomes more frequent, indicating intergenerational change.