LingLab


LingLab has been recently established by the Department of Linguistics at the Faculty of Philosophy of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. For more details on its hosting research projects and other activities, check out the relevant sections.

Opening Hours

Members

Theoretical & Applied Linguistics

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Despina Papadopoulou

Lab Director

Language Processing,
Bilingualism,
Language Acquisition,
Second Language Teaching,
Language Disorders

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Anthi Revithiadou

Metrical Phonology,
Morphology - Phonology Interface,
Syntax - Phonology Interface,
Comparative Linguistics,
Experimental Phonology,
Greek Dialects,
L1/L2 Acquisition,
Heritage Language

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Savas L. Tsohatzidis

Analytic Philosophy of Language,
Semantics and Pragmatics of Natural Languages,
History and Philosophy of Linguistics

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Dimitrios Koutsogiannis

Educational Linguistics,
Critical Discourse Analysis,
Social Semiotics,
Literacy Studies

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Maria Theodoropoulou

Language and Emotion,
Figurative Language,
Cognitive Linguistics,
Linguistics and Psychoanalysis

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Alexandros Tantos

Computational Linguistics,
Natural Language Processing,
Formal Semantics,
Discourse Semantics and Pragmatics,
Corpus Linguistics,
Data Science

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Dimitris Michelioudakis

Theoretical, comparative and diachronic syntax,
Syntactic Typology,
Argument structure and event structure,
Greek dialects,
Phylogenetic linguistics,
Native American Languages,
Syntactic Fieldwork

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Nikos Amvrazis

Second Language Acquisition,
Teaching Language Learner Strategies,
Interfaces [Syntax-Discourse],
Experimental Linguistics

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Georgia Fotiadou

Psycholinguistics,
Corpus Linguistics,
Sentence Processing,
Eye-tracking methodology

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Eirini Konta

Second Language Acquisition,
Bilingualism,
Teaching Greek as a Second/Foreign Language,
Language Testing,
Inflectional and Derivational Morphology

Historical Linguistics

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Georgios K. Giannakis

Historical and Comparative Linguistics,
Indo-European Languages and Linguistics,
Language, Culture and Society,
Poetics,
Ancient Greek Dialects,
History of Linguistics

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Georgios Papanastasiou

Historical Linguistics,
Indoeuropean Linguistics,
History of Greek Language,
Dialectology

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Maria Karali

Historical Linguistics,
Historical Morphology,
Historical Sociolinguistics,
Historical Pragmatics,
Cognitive Linguistics,
Ancient Greek Language,
Writing Systems

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Doris Kyriazis

Head of the Department of Linguistics

Historical Linguistics and Dialectology,
Balkan Linguistics,
Language Contact,
Bilingualism

Visiting Scholars

Post-doctoral Researchers

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Anastasia Paspali

Bilingualism,
Heritage languages,
Language processing,
Language disorders

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Vassiliki Apostolouda

Language acquisition,
Acquisition of phonological structures and the lexicon,
Experimental phonology with emphasis on stress,
Phonology-Morphology interface,
Second/ foreign language teaching

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Eirini Apostolopoulou

Phonology,
Phonology-morphology interface,
Typology,
Linguistic change,
Language contact

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Nicolaos Neocleous

Syntax,
Syntax – Morphology interface,
Syntax – Semantics interface,
Language contact,
Bilingualism,
Heritage languages,
Asia Minor Greek varieties

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Maria Soukalopoulou

Morphological processing in L1 and L2,
Grammatical description of Modern Greek,
Grammar teaching by means of new technologies,
Enhancement of grammatical awareness by means of grammar teaching

Projects

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Theoretical & Applied Linguistics

A list of ongoing and past projects in theoretical & applied linguistics.

Historical & Balkan Linguistics

A list of ongoing and past projects in historical and balkan linguistics.

Activities

Talks, Seminars, Webinars

The impact of Artificial Intelligence today and tomorrow

The Linguistics Lab invites you to the lecture series “The impact of Artificial Intelligence today and tomorrow”. In the following link, you will find the relevant poster of the event with the participants, the dates and times of the lectures and the link to the lectures on the Zoom icon: Onedrive

Alternatively, for those who do not have access to Onedrive, here is the link to the poster via Google Drive

The first lecture will be held next Sunday, 10/3, at 12:00 by Mr. Ioannis Vlahavas, Professor of the Informatics Department, AUTH

For more information please visit the website of the event: AI Impact.

Workshop on R

2-4 February 2024, (post)doctoral workshop on R at the Russian Word Center (https://www.russianword.gr)

Instructor: Dr. Anastasia Paspali

For the poster of the event click here.

For photos from the event click here and here.

Teacher training

The Directorate of Primary Education of Kastoria in collaboration with the Linguistics Laboratory of the Department of Linguistics of the School of Philology of AUTH, the Education Advisor, Ms. Aliki Kaztaridou, the 10th Experimental School of Kastoria and the 5th School of Kastoria, are co-organizing an online teacher training program on the topic: “Current practices in grammar teaching based on the findings of modern linguistic research”.

For the event’s schedule click here.

For the poster of the event click here.

To download the presentation of Lecture 1 (17/1/2024) click here.

To download the presentation of Lecture 2a (24/1/2024) click here.

To download the presentation of Lecture 2b (24/1/2024) click here.

To download the presentation of Lecture 3 (7/2/2024) click here.

To download the presentation of Lecture 4 (21/2/2024) click here.

Past activities

LingLab webinars, Winter semester 2022-2023

1st webinar, Thursday, 24/11/2022, 17.00-18.30

Speaker: Irini Apostolopoulou, A.U.Th.

Title: Phonological change in Italiot Greek: the role of language contact

2nd webinar, Thursday, 1/12/2022, 17.00-18.30

Speaker: Madeleine Voga, Paul Valéry University, Montpellier 3

Title: Lexical co-activation in the bilingual lexicon: data from Greek-French cognates

3rd webinar, Thursday, 8/12/2022, 17.00-18.30

Speaker: Christoforos Souganidis, Basque Centre on Cognition, Brain and Language

Title: Phonetic categories in the bilingual mind

4th webinar, Thursday, 15/12/2022, 17.00-18.30

Speaker: Anastasia Paspali, University of Crete & A.U.Th.

Title: Gender agreement in code-switching: experimental evidence from Greek as a Heritage Language

5th webinar, Thursday, 12/1/2023, 17.00-18.30

Speaker: Eva Smolka, University of Vienna

Title: TBA

LingLab webinars, Spring semester 2021-2022

1st webinar, Thursday, 7/4/2022, 18.30-19.30

Speaker: Artemis Alexiadou, Humboldt University of Berlin

Title: Language and thought. Evidence from language acquisition

2nd webinar, Thursday, 14/4/2022, 18.30-19.30

Speaker: Eleni Griva, University of Western Macedonia

Title: (Intercultural) Communication strategies in the teaching of Greek as second/foreign language

3rd webinar, Thursday, 12/5/2022, 18.30-19.30

Speaker: Francesca Foppolo, University of Milan - Bicocca

Title: Testing pseudopartitives in Italian: off-line and on-line measures

4th webinar, Thursday, 19/5/2022, 18.30-19.30

Speaker: Foivos Panagiotidis, University of Cyprus

Title: Theoretical linguistics and linguistic prescription

LingLab webinars, Winter semester 2021

Click here to see the full list of the webinars for the winter semester 2021.

1st webinar, Tuesday, 9/11/2021, 18.00-19.30

Lecture series on Multilingualism, MultiMind

Speaker: Daniela S. Avila-Varela, Pompeu Fabra University

Title: Cross-language phonological overlap in bilingual toddlers

2nd webinar, Tuesday, 30/11/2021, 18.00-19.30

Lecture series on Multilingualism, MultiMind

Speaker: Tess Fitzpatrick, Swansea University

Title: Applied linguistics in minoritised language contexts: three case studies from Wales

3rd webinar, Tuesday, 14/12/2021, 18.30-20.00

Speakers: Ι. Dosi & Ζ. Gavriilidou, Democritus University of Thrace

Title: The development of definitional skills in children with Developmental Language Disorder: delayed or deviant?

4th webinar, Tuesday, 11/1/2022, 18.30-20.00

Speaker: M. Kaltsa, A.U.Th.

Title: Project DemLENS: rethinking how preserved are (not) language abilities in dementia

5th webinar, Tuesday, 1/2/2022, 18.30-20.00

Speaker: Angeliki Efthymiou, Professor, Democritus University of Thrace

Title: Verbal formations in Modern Greek: variation, productivity, competition

41st Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, 13-15 May, Online conference

Please visit the conference site for more details: https://sites.google.com/view/amgl41-en

LingLab webinars, Spring semester 2021

1st webinar, Friday, 2/4/2021, 16.00-18.00

Speakers: Nikos Amvrazis & Georgia Fotiadou, A.U.Th.

Title: Gender processing in the L2

For the presentation in pdf click here.

2nd webinar, Friday, 9/4/2021, 16.00-18.00

Speaker: Maria Soukalopoulou, A.U.Th.

Title: Representations and processing mechanisms of perfective morphology in Greek speaking adults and children

For the presentation in pdf click here.

3rd webinar, Friday, 16/4/2021,16.00-18.00

Speakers: Koutsogiannis, D., Antonopoulou, S., Konstantinidis, A., Rothoni, A., A.U.Th.

Title: Language practices of Greek adolescent new immigrants in Australia and Germany: first thoughts about language education

4th webinar, Friday, 23/4/2021, 16.00-18.00

Speaker: Valantis Fyndanis, Cyprus University of Technology & University of Oslo

Title: Sequential multilingualism and working memory: Evidence from academics

5th webinar, Tuesday, 11/5/2021, 18.00-19.30

Lecture series on Multilingualism, MultiMind

Speaker: Napoleon Katsos, University of Cambridge

Title: Bilingualism in Children with Developmental Disorders: From Language and Cognition to Human Rights

For registration in the MultiMind lectures click here.

6th webinar, Friday, 21/5/2021, 16.00-18.00

Speaker: Evripidis Tsiakmakis, Autonomous University of Barcelona

Title: Tracing expletiveness: Expletive (?) Negation in Modern Greek

7th webinar, Friday, 28/5/2021, 17.00-18.30

Speaker: Alexandros Tantos, A.U.Th.

Title: Greek Learner Corpus ΙΙ and patterns of language use

8th webinar, Tuesday, 8/6/2021, 18.00-19.30

Lecture series on Multilingualism, MultiMind

Speaker: Johanne Paradis, University of Alberta

Title: Bilingual development in first generation Syrian refugee children: What factors contribute to successes and challenges?

For all the webinars click here.

International Linguistic Spring School 2021

The University of Cologne & the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki celebrate the collaboration of their research groups of Applied linguistics and invite you to the 2-day-long International Linguistic Spring School on “Multilingualism in educational contexts: Evidence from research outcomes”.

The school covers current methods and debates in the study of bilingual, second- and foreign-language learning in educational contexts. It is aimed at advanced BA- and MA-students that are interested in gaining both theoretical understanding and hands-on experience in the area of applied linguistic research in educational contexts.

The language of instruction will be English and the sessions will be held online via Zoom on Tuesday, March 23 (EET time: 17.00-19.30) and Wednesday, March 24, 2021 (EET time: 11.50-14.00).

If you wish to participate in our event please send an email to Natalia Nannou (natnannou@gmail.com) until March 18, 2021 to express your interest and receive the Zoom link.

For the poster of the event click here.

For the program of the event click here.

International Mother Tongue Day, 21/2/2021

The Linguistics Lab in collaboration with the MultiMind network and me2glosses organize an interactive online event for the International Mother Tongue Day (21 February 2021). The topic of the event is “Multilingualism: Myths, facts, research and stories”.

For the poster of the event click here.

For the presentation of the event in pdf click here

8th Festival of Multilingualism

LingLab takes part in the 8th Festival of Multilingualism! Know more about its scientific and educational activities and learn about the action of the “Bilingualism Matters” branch in Thessaloniki as well as about the recent findings of “The Multilingual Mind”, a European research project about language teaching techniques to refugee children!

Wednesday, 16 December 2020, Time: 18.00, Duration: 2 hours

LingLab A.U.Th. - Title: Talking about multilingualism

Coordination: Prof. D. Papadopoulou

For more information on the 8th Festival of Multilingualism, click here.

Postgraduate webinars on Research Methods in Linguistics

1st webinar, Friday, 18/12/2020, 11.00-13.30

Lecturer: Dr. Eirini Konta

2nd webinar, Friday, 22/1/2021, 11.00-13.30

Lecturer: Dr. Georgia Fotiadou

3rd webinar, Friday, 5/2/2021, 11.00-13.30

Lecturer: Dr. Nikos Amvrazis

4th webinar, Thursday, 4/3/2021, 11.00-13.30

Lecturer: Dr. Nikos Amvrazis

5th webinar, Friday, 19/3/2021, 11.00-13.30

Lecturer: Dr. Eirini Konta

6th webinar, Friday, 26/3/2021, 11.00-13.30

Lecturer: Dr. Georgia Fotiadou

LingLab weekly seminars

Our lab organizes weekly seminars on various topics of Applied Linguistics. The meetings take place at LingLab (2A&2B, New Wing, Faculty of Philosophy).

This semester our lab organizes webinars on various topics of Linguistics.

1st webinar, Thursday, 19/11/2020, 10.00-12.00

10.00-11.30 “When grammar and parsing momentarily disagree: evidence from grammatical illusions in monolingual and bilingual comprehension”, Anastasia Paspali, University of Humboldt (for the presentation in pdf click here)

11.30-12.00 “Web-based platforms for experiments”, Nina Douka & Konstantina Olioumtsevits, A.U.Th. (for the presentation in pdf click here)

2nd webinar, Thursday, 3/12/2020, 9.30-11.30

Article review, Konstantina Tsiousia, A.U.Th.

(1) Terzi, A., & Nanousi, V. (2018). Intervention effects in the relative clauses of agrammatics: The role of gender and case. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 3(1), 17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.274

(2) Varlokosta, S., Nerantzini, M., Papadopoulou, D., Bastiaanse, R., & Beretta, A. (2014). Minimality effects in agrammatic comprehension: The role of lexical restriction and feature impoverishment. Lingua, 148, 80-94. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2014.05.013

For the presentation in pdf click here.

3rd webinar, Thursday, 14/1/2021, 9.30-11.30

“MultiMind project. Vocabulary interventions in Reception Classes”, Konstantina Olioumtsevits & Despina Papadopoulou, A.U.Th. (for the presentation in pdf click here)

4th webinar, Thursday, 28/1/2021, 9.30-11.30

“Prosody as a medium of intervention”, Marianna Martzoukou, Hellenic Open University & University of Ioannina

5th webinar, Thursday, 18/2/2021, 9.30-11.30

Articles review, Dimitris Michelioudakis & Giannis Rachmanis, A.U.Th.

(1) Anagnostopoulou, E. (2008). Psych Verbs (Athens reading group hand out). Retrieved from https://pracownik.kul.pl/files/10932/public/psych_verbs_classes.pdf?1461262926354

(2) Hartshorne, J. K., O’Donnell, T. J., Sudo, Y., Uruwashi, M., Lee, M., & Snedeker, J. (2016). Psych verbs, the linking problem, and the acquisition of language. Cognition, 157, 268-288. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2016.08.008

For the presentations in pdf click here.

Greek courses

Design & Implementation of voluntary on-line Greek courses for refugees in collaboration with Stand by Me Lesvos.

Coordination and planning: Konstantina Olioumtsevits

Planning and implementation: Nina Douka

Teaching: Αidona Lafkaridou, Maria Tzikou, Rania Ntara, Athena Nachopoulou, Katerina Efstathiou-Selacha, Olga Kritharidou, Panagiotis Antoniadis, Vasilis Michos

Collaborators

Russian Word - Center of Russian Language and Culture

The Center for Russian Language and Culture "Russian Word" and the LingLab of the School of Philology of AUTH signed a "Cooperation Agreement" (26/1/2024) in the field of education and research related to the science of Linguistics. The research activities include:

  • Syllabus planning and consulting/scientific supervision in the production of language teaching materials for the teaching of Greek and/or Russian as a second/foreign language,
  • Implementation of modern teaching methods (e.g. CLIL) and new technologies in teaching a foreign language (e.g. learner corpora),
  • Training activities aiming at expanding the knowledge and skills of the educational staff in multilingualism and language teaching,
  • Joint participation in research and scientific activities (e.g. conferences, workshops, etc.) with regard to aforementioned issues

Russian Word is one of the in the institutions that participates in the Internship Program for the Students of the School of Philology. For more information click here.

News

Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, Tirana, 18-20 Dec. 2021

Contact

  • linglab@lit.auth.gr
  • 0030 2310 997054 - 0030 2310 997509
  • Office 109 (1st Floor)
    Old Building, Faculty of Philosophy
    Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
    Thessaloniki, Greece 54124
  • For LingLab’s opening hours check out the relevant section.