Phonetics is the area of linguistics that studies the production and perception of speech
sounds. Research in the past decades has clearly shown that speech is extremely variable …

Prosodic aspects of cross-linguistic contact are under-researched, especially past contact
that has subsequently ceased. In this paper, we investigate declarative and polar question …

This study takes us to the Greek diasporic community in Cairns, Far North Queensland,
Australia. The data analyzed derive from audio-recorded conversations with first-generation …

We offer an analysis of the influence exerted by segmental rules on the suprasegmental
structure in the dialect of Ipiros Greek (IG). In particular we investigated how vowel deletion …

We compare four experimental methods specifically designed for eliciting dialectal speech
suitable for quantitative linguistic analysis, ranging from conversational speech to tightly …

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the prosodic marking of polar questions in
the Corfiot dialect. More specifically, we aim at comparing the intonation of polar questions …