We explore the acoustics of Greek voiced stops produced by 2and 3year-old Greek-acquiring children and compare them with adult patterns, in order to understand developmental universals in the mastery of phonation-type contrast. A truly voiced stop (i.e., one realized with voicing onset before the burst), is a difficult sound because the buildup of supralaryngeal air pressure during stop closure...

Learning Greek as a second or foreign language has drawn the attention of many researchers throughout time. A dictionary is amongst the first things a foreign language student uses. Reading comprehension is significantly improved by the use of a dictionary, especially when this includes the way words are pronounced. We developed a assistance software for learning the Greek Language via Greeklis...

Despite the growing interest of wine industry in quality and environmental certifications influence these standards on positioning international markets, scholarly research has paid proportionally limited attention to link between winery export intensity adoption internationally recognized standards. This study aims analyze which factors make an organizational model performant, verify impact th...

The availability of quality water is a basic condition of socioeconomic development. The agriculture water demand can be damaged by contamination of groundwater resources. This paper proposes a tool to preserve groundwater quality by using groundwater vulnerability assessment methods and a decision support system (DSS). The mapping of intrinsic groundwater vulnerability was based on reliable me...

In this work, we explore how well can we perform the PAN‘13 authorship identification task by using correlation of frequent significant features found in documents written by a known author. We extract features from the context of four types of words: first words of sentences or lines, nouns, verbs, punctuation. We compute the Matthews Correlation Coefficient for all pairs of extracted features...

Aim: Due to its chronicity and unpredictability, epilepsy confers significant burden to its bearers and their loved ones, affecting their quality of life (QOL). Contrary to persons with epilepsy (PWE), little is known about caregiver burden (CB) and QOL in Greece and worldwide. Here we attempt to identify the magnitude of epilepsy burden to Greek caregivers, explore factors associated with it a...

differences between such "technical terms" and everyday vocabulary. However, this general definition is modified to explain what should presently be understood under "medical Latin". Even if there are cultural and social differences between ancient and modem medical languages, "medical Latin" will be a term used to denote a "Fachsprache", i.e., a variety of language used by those with a special...

Methods. I critically analyzed the most common Greek words used as taxa names in the chelonian literature to establish their etymology and check whether the transliteration process has been done correctly. I also compared the current guidelines for the latinisation of Greek words recommended by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, with other alternative systems for the transformat...

In this paper, we contrast English and Greek resultative secondary predication, showing that Greek lacks the productive syntactic strategy which English employs. We propose that the difference in productivity should be attributed to properties of the morphology in the two languages (namely, to the differing productivity of certain verbal affixes). Finally, we give a compositional semantics for ...