Over the last 50 years, sociolinguistic research in settings in which a regional, social, or ethnic non-standard linguistic variety is used alongside the standard variety of the same language has steadily increased. The educational implications of the concomitant use of such varieties have also received a great deal of research attention. This study deals with regional linguistic variation and ...

We report on a 29-year-old Greek-Cypriot female with a de novo 6.3 Mb distal 10q26.2q26.3 deletion. She had a very mild neurocognitive phenotype with near normal development and intellect. In addition, she had certain distinctive features and postural orthostatic tachycardia. We review the relevant literature and postulate that certain of her features can be diagnostically relevant. This report...

One of the most salient features of the migrant ‘ethnolect’ in Australian English is the pronunciation of word-final {-er}. This article presents data from sociolinguistic interviews that support the view that there is a difference between Anglo and non-Anglo speakers, and that this difference is most pronounced in Greek speakers. The variant the Greek speakers tend to use more than the Anglo s...

This paper aims to investigate the properties of nominal elements in bilingual speakers of Turkish and Russian learning Greek as a second language. Specifically, the data examined include the use of determiners in definite and indefinite DPs and pronominal (object) clitics. Primarily, the study seeks to identify the (abstract) morphological features which show differential development in the L2...

The study explores first language (L1) influences on the mechanisms of spelling in English as a foreign language (EFL). We hypothesized that the transparency of L1 orthography influences (a) the amount of hesitation associated with spelling irregular English words, and (b) the size of units EFL spellers operate. Participants were adult speakers of three languages differing by the degree of tran...

We were inspired by Karlgren’s (2000) studies, and this work can be seen as a validation and confirmation of his original hypotheses, for Portuguese Other people have investigated automatic genre classification for other languages, as Stamatatos et al. (2000) for Modern Greek We were also inspired by Biber’s (1988) empirical investigation of cooccurrence patterns among linguistic features and, ...

Abstract The famous middle Byzantine alchemical manuscript Marcianus graecus 299 contains annotations from the late period, most prominently in its opening quire. This article examines a text on very first page of manuscript, written Greek script, but language other than Greek. A number words this undeciphered can be correlated with Arabic technical vocabulary that would also have been used Isl...

The relative frequency of different autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxias, commonly referred to as spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs), varies considerably among populations of different ethnic origin. No data exist at present on the frequency of different SCAs in the Greek population. In the present study we investigated the presence of triplet repeat expansion SCAs (SCA1, SCA2, SCA3, SCA6, SCA7, S...