OSU Linguistics Speakers Series Abstract

MLK Day Symposium - Modern Greek

The Ohio State University
Monday, January 15, 2007
09:00 am


The 4th (Now-)Annual Martin Luther King Day Symposium on Linguistics


Abstract The 4th (Now-)Annual OSU Martin Luther King Day Symposium on Linguistics

Featuring, this year: MODERN GREEK LINGUISTICS

Monday, 15 January 2007

122 Oxley Hall (1712 Neil Avenue, on the OSU Campus)

Organized by Brian D. Joseph (joseph.1@osu.edu), with assistance and financial support
from the Department of Linguistics and the Kenneth E. Naylor Professorship of the
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Preliminary Program:

8:40 - - Coffee/tea available
8:55 - - Words of welcome

9:00-9:40: "A (Very) Quick Tour through 3500 Years of Greek Linguistic History – Is it
all One Language?", Brian D. Joseph (Ohio State University)
9:40-10:10: "Greek Influence on Slavic and Arumanian", Andrej Sobolev (University of
Marburg/Ohio State University)
10:10-10:40: "On the problem of defining inflectional classes for Modern Greek nouns",
Andrea Sims (Northwestern University)

BREAK

11:00-11:30: "Diglossia and Papadiamantis", Christopher Brown, Ohio State
University
11:30-12:15: "From politeness marker to discourse marker: please, thank you, and sorry in
Cypriot Greek", Marina Terkourafi (University of Illinois)

LUNCH (provided gratis for all attendees)

1:30-2:00: "Distributional cues to word segmentation in modern Greek", Anton
Rytting (Ohio State University)
2:00-2:30: "An acoustic comparison of [d], [?], and [ð] across Greek, English, and
Spanish", Kathleen Currie Hall (Ohio State University)

BREAK

2:45-3:15: "The fine-grained phonetics and acquisition of voiced stops in Greek", Eunjong
Kong & Mary Beckman (Ohio State University)
3:15-3:45 : "Acquisition patterns and acoustic cues of voiceless plosives in Greek",
Timothy Arbisi-Kelm & Jan Edwards (University of Wisconsin) and Mary Beckman & Eunjong
Kong (Ohio State University)

TELOS PANTWN

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