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Vassiliki Apostolouda

Dr. Vassiliki Apostolouda is a Post-doctoral Researcher in the Department of Linguistics at the Faculty of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.). Dr. Apostolouda earned her PhD in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from the Department of Linguistics at A.U.Th. in 2018. Prior to her doctoral studies, she completed her Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics in 2012 and her Bachelor of Arts in Philology with a specialization in Linguistics in 2008, both at the Faculty of Philology, A.U.Th. From December 2019, Dr. Apostolouda has been contributing to the Department of Linguistics at A.U.Th. as a Post-doctoral Researcher. Her project, titled “Lexical frequency effects and prosodic regularity as facilitators for morphological awareness: Evidence from native and non-native speakers of Greek,” showcases her commitment to advancing our understanding of how word frequency and prosodic properties of words facilitate the acquisition and understanding of morphological structure. Currently, she is undertaking her second postdoctoral research project at the same department. Titled ‘Theoretical Approaches and Experimental Research Methodology for Exploring Stress in Children and Adults’, her current project aims to experimentally investigate how both young and adult speakers determine stress placement in novel words, including both verbs and nouns. Additionally, it seeks to develop a tool for automatic pseudoword construction." Since 2024, she participates as a Post-doctoral Researcher at the project Gradience (H.F.R.I. 15053, ELKE 76809, P.I.: Prof. A. Revithiadou, GRADIENCE ), which aims at exploring how aspects of speakers’ grammars, such as stress assignment, can be computationally modeled. Her contribution to the project include designing and executing experimental tasks, contributing to the design and the development of methods for evaluating lexicostatistic noun frequencies, and publishing the research findings. Ιn addition to her postdoctoral positions, Dr. Apostolouda has served as an Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Language and Intercultural Studies, University of Thessaly (2020-2022), and the Department of Primary Education, Democritus University of Thrace (2021-2023). She has also been involved in collaborative teaching at the Hellenic Open University (2021-2022). From February to June 2020, she contributed as an Adjunct Lecturer to the Department of Education Sciences in Early Childhood at Democritus University of Thrace. Dr. Apostolouda has received several research grants and scholarships. Notably, she received the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) support for the "Reinforcement of Post-doctoral Researchers – 2nd Cycle" program (2019–2021; IKY ). She also received a Doctoral Scholarship from the ‘A.- F. Christidis’ bequest for postgraduate studies in Linguistics during her PhD candidacy (2004-2016). Additionally, she was a visiting doctoral student at the University Paul Valery/Montpelier 3, thanks to an Erasmus placement scholarship (10/2014-01/2015). Her research, including papers on nominal stress properties, stress grammar during language acquisition, and experimental approaches to pseudoword construction, has been featured in reputable conferences and proceedings.Her involvement in the Education of Immigrant and Repatriate Students project at A.U.Th., Department of Linguistics (April 2011 – July 2013), highlights her dedication to exploring the practical application of Greek grammar in classroom teaching within the framework of contemporary linguistic theory.

Interests

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