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...

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...

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 ...

In this paper, we report on our efforts to identify important Greek web sites on the web by analyzing the link structure of Greek web sites. Towards this end, five independent graph-theoretic methods have been deployed: hub and authority, page rank, Bow-Tie structure, core analysis and degree distribution. Our findings indicate that government, non-profit and educational sites are amongst the m...

Smokers of all ages can benefit by quitting, but many smokers continue to smoke. Older Greek-Australian smokers, one of the largest ethnic groups in Australia, have higher rates of smoking than other groups of older Australians. This qualitative study aimed to explore older Greek-Australians' views about socio-cultural influences on their smoking. A snowball sampling technique was used to ident...

In this paper we aim to give a description of the computational tools that have been designed and implemented to support the development and validation process of the Greek WordNet, which is currently being developed in the framework of the BalkaNet project. In particular, we focus on the description of a lemmatizer for the Greek language, which has been used as the basis for a number of tools ...

Surnames of grandparents were collected from children in the primary schools of the Albanian-Italian, Croat-Italian and Greek-Italian villages of southern Italy and Sicily. The coefficients of relationships by isonymy show almost no relationship with ethnicity. Ethnolinguistic minorities of southern Italy and Sicily are geographically subdivided into two main clusters: the first cluster compris...