Athens 2006 ISCA Workshop on Experimental Linguistics

Investigating interfaces: an experimental approach to focus in Sicilian Italian

This paper describes an investigation of the syntax-prosody interface in the expression of focus in Sicilian Italian. It finds evidence of a generalised reversal of the articulation of information structure, with new information often preceding old, and of intonational differentiation between focus types. Introduction A pressing question in current linguistic theory is how different components ...

ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Statistical and Perceptual Audition, SAPA 2008, Brisbane, Australia, September 21, 2008

On the properties of VSO and VOS orders in Greek and Italian: a study on the syntax information structure interface

This paper deals with word order variation that relates to patterns of information structure. The empirical focus of the paper is a comparison of Italian and Greek word order patterns. The paper will address, however, issues of word order typology in general. The main line of argumentation is one according to which syntax directly reflects information structure, and variation is explained on th...

Production and perception of greek vowels in normal and cerebral palsy speech

This study investigates the perceptual consequences and differences in vowel production between cerebral palsy (CP) afflicted Greek speakers and their normal counterparts. Formant (F1 and F2) values for the five vowels of Modern Greek were extracted from productions of both male and female speakers in stressed and unstressed conditions. These same productions were presented to normal hearing Gr...

Growth hormones and growth factors in acromegaly and beyond. Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Highlights in Basic and Clinical Neuroendocrinology. November 4-5, 2005. Athens, Greece.