Morphosyntactic variation in Modern Greek dialects

Morphosyntactic Variation

In a series of recent investigations of language change, a group of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and elsewhere has described the grammatical character and time course of a number of gradual syntactic changes in various European languages.[1] In all of these cases, the languages undergoing change exhibit variation in areas of grammar where we do not find optionality in stable sy...

Acoustic model of stress in standard Greek and Greek dialects

The paper compares acoustic models which predict the position of stress in bisyllabic words in Greek varieties. It is shown that while in Thessalian Greek ratios of peak amplitude and F1 are the best predictors of stress, in Athenian and Cypriot Greek these are ratios of durations and f0. Furthermore in Cypriot Greek morphological category of the token affects the acoustic prominence of the str...

Corpus-based Dialectometry: Aggregate Morphosyntactic Variability in British English Dialects

The research reported in this paper departs from most previous work in dialectometry in several ways. Empirically, it draws on frequency vectors derived from naturalistic corpus data and not on discrete atlas classifications. Linguistically, it is concerned with morphosyntactic (as opposed to lexical or pronunciational) variability. Methodologically, it marries the careful analysis of dialect p...

Word in Modern Greek

Expressing Irregular Computations in Modern Fortran Dialects

Modern dialects of Fortran enjoy wide use and good support on highperformance computers as performance-oriented programming languages. By providing the ability to express nested data parallelism in Fortran, we enable irregular computations to be incorporated into existing applications with minimal rewriting and without sacrificing performance within the regular portions of the application. Sinc...